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Digital Public Library of America » Blog Archive » New Self-Guided Curriculum for Digitization

Posted: 15 Oct 2015 07:12 AM PDT

"Through the Public Library Partnerships Project (PLPP), DPLA has been working with existing DPLA Service Hubs to provide digital skills training for public librarians and connect them sustainably with state and regional resources for digitizing, describing, and exhibiting their cultural heritage content. During the project, DPLA collaborated with trainers at Digital Commonwealth, Digital Library of Georgia, Minnesota Digital Library, Montana Memory Project, and Mountain West Digital Library to write and iterate a workshop curriculum based on documented best practices. Through the project workshops, we used this curriculum to introduce 150 public librarians to the digitization process. Now at the end of the project, we've made this curriculum available in a self-guided version intended for digitization beginners from a variety of cultural heritage institutions. Each module includes a video presentation, slides with notes in Powerpoint, and slides in PDF. Please feel free to share, reuse, and adapt these materials."

Read the full article to view an online curriculum from the DPLA providing skills on digitization, digital skills, and documenting works. It is an educational curriculum.

Return of the Big Brands: How Legacy Publishers Will Coopt Open Access | The Scholarly Kitchen

Posted: 15 Oct 2015 07:10 AM PDT

"With Open Access Week soon to be upon us, this seems like a good time to review how the OA world has evolved and where it is going. By my count we are well along in the third phase of open access publishing, with phase four rapidly coming into view. Of course, not everybody will accept a four-part typology, and they shouldn't. Perhaps there are five stages, or ten. Or perhaps there is but one, which is continuously and inexorably unfolding. Call this the Calvinist Corollary: research literature that is free and accessible to one and all was predestined when God created the world. Her plan could be seen even in the earliest eukaryotic cells if only one looked closely enough. From this vantage, advocates of subscription-based publishing models seem to be walking on their knuckles while the upright Citizens of the International Research Community lead us to the fulfillment of Her plan. Typologies reflect a worldview, and mine is simply that tools are useful when they further our understanding and should be tossed out when they do not. I am prepared to jettison this taxonomy the moment Stage Five swims into view...."

Read the full article for one author's perspective on the five stages of OA, what history has shown has happened with OA, and what may well yet happen with libraries, publishers, aggregators, and OA.

Luminos press release 10-13-2015 - Luminos_press_release_101315.pdf

Posted: 15 Oct 2015 07:00 AM PDT

"Today, we are happy to announce the culmination of the launch phase of an important new concept in monograph publishing, with the first five s cholarly monographs open to the world, many more titles to come, and the first of our inaugural Luminos Member Libraries ready to support the transformation of monograph publishing . " As an author writing about mass violence in the global south, I was intr igued by the option of making my insights available to broad publics, including in countries where, for a variety of reasons, paper copies cannot be as easily ordered as in Europe or North America , " notes Joachim Savelsberg , author of the new Lu minos title Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur . Authors have been eager to publish in the Luminos program not only because it guarantees the same standards of exc ellence as all of UC Press's programs, but also because of the opportunity to bring their work to the larger, global audiences that open access provides."

See the full article discussing the OA publication process.

Minnesota Senator Al Franken Pushing Bill for Free College Textbooks

Posted: 15 Oct 2015 05:57 AM PDT

"Al Franken knows how ridiculous the cost of college textbooks can be, and he want to do something about it. That's why the Minnesota senator and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin on Thursday introduced the Affordable College Textbook Act, a bill that would give grants to higher-ed institutions so they can create textbooks accessible for free online—which would, in turn, ostensibly push the costs of textbooks down, the Chicago Maroon reports. "The traditional publishing market is not providing students the materials they need at a cost they can afford," said Durbin, who introduced a similar bill in 2013 that never went anywhere. These "open textbooks" would be available for professors, students, and pretty much anyone who wanted to use and distribute them, City Pages reports."

To read the full article that discusses a new bill proposing legislation to decrease cost of textbooks by increasing open educational resources (specifically open textbooks), go to the link.

University Honors Program Open Access Trivia Event at the University of Kansas , Open Access

Posted: 15 Oct 2015 05:52 AM PDT

"University Honors Program Open Access Trivia Event Tuesday, October 20 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., The Commons, Spooner Hall Think you know more than your friends? Test your knowledge at Open Access Trivia Night for a chance to win free PRIZES! Join a team when you arrive or bring your own team of up to five students. Snacks will be served. Open to undergraduate and graduate students. Online registration is preferred but not required. Register now. This student-led event is sponsored by the University Honors Program with support from KU Libraries. It is part of Open Access Week 2015. Prior knowledge of OA is not required.The event will be filmed for inclusion in Undergraduates Speak: Our Rights and Access, a short film that documents Open Access at KU. ​Contact Anne Dotter at annele@ku.edu or Michelle Reed at michelle.reed@ku.edu for more information."
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