Is PeerJ Membership Publishing Sustainable. Discussions about open access publishing usually converge on two topical issues: 1) morality (fairness, justice, social welfare); or 2) sustainability. This post is about the latter. More specifically, this post is about PeerJ’s innovative membership publishing model. In my first post, I described how PeerJ reflects the Silicon Valley culture of publishing. In this post, I’ll attempt to unpack their business model, explore the details, and try to come to an understanding of how this model will play out in the marketplace. “Lifetime membership” is a term that is being used widely by the company and the media to describe the PeerJ business model, and yet I think the term is being used inappropriately here, at least in its full sense.
If you choose not to perform at least one review every 12 months, then at our discretion your membership will lapse and you will need to pay $99 to reactivate your membership the next time you want to publish with PeerJ. Like this: Like Loading... eOER12 - Week 1 (Nov. 30 - Dec. 5) The Pre-MOOC Activities are designed to connect you with your Wayfinders and other MOOC participants. It will also help lay the groundwork for what we'll explore during LOER12. This section contains plenty of information and opportunities for you to participate, so pace yourself over the next few days! Pre-MOOC Activities to Complete Decide how you will participate in LOER12.
You can decide how you want to keep the pulse inside your respective contributions online--this can be a blog, a podcast or video, or even a screencast with presentation charts - a discussion - anything you like.Provide us with the link, and we'll put it on the Sharing page. Understanding What "OER" Means OER (Open Educational Resources) is a term used to describe educational materials that are free to use, re-use, and share. Why do people provide stuff for free?
Because this is about education with sharing and collaboration being major components of learning. What does and OER look like? What is the impact of OER? Open Access and scientific breakthroughs | Open Science. December 7, 2012 A few days ago, The Chronicle of Higher Education published an article by Peter Suber and Darius Cuplinskas, daringly entitled “Open Access to Scientific Research Can Save Lives”. It relates the case of 15 year-old Jack Andraka, who recently announced he had invented a diagnostic test for pancreatic cancer.
Not only is Andraka’s test very cheap, but it also happens to be 168 times faster and 400 times more accurate than previously existing tests. Moreover, it may also be able to detect other types of cancer. Of course, the extent to which Open Access really had an impact on Andraka’s success is open for discussion. In their article, the authors also formulate a basic postulate, which aims to promulgate the ideas behind Open Access publishing: These propositions have been brought forward countless times over the past few years without facing any real opposition. Photo. ImpactStory: tell the full story of your research impact. A world map of Open Educational Resources initiatives: Can the global OER community design and build it together? | EFQUEL.
Athabasca University would like to invite the international OER community to take part in one more online conversation. The objective of this conversation is to consider together whether the global OER community could design and build a world map of OER institutional initiatives. (download the invitation letter) Over the past decade, there have been more and more initiatives in more and more countries. It has become difficult to have a sense of the global OER landscape. Maps can be effective in communicating a message visually.
As many remember, the former IIEP OER community showed enormous energy in its interaction. Practical info The conversation is scheduled to take place online over a three-week period from 12 – 30 November. In addition to this international discussion in English, some groups have already decided to hold similar interactions in their own languages for their own communities or networks. Join the international conversation organised by Athabasca University. Cable on Free vs Open. By david on November 9, 2012 Cable Green sent a frustrated email today to the Educause Openness Constituent Group. Here’s the key point: The Babson Survey Research Group has released a new report: Growing the Curriculum: Open Education Resources in U.S. Higher Education.This sentence is of particular concern to me: “One concept very important to many in the OER field was rarely mentioned at all – licensing terms such as creative commons that permit free use or re-purposing by others.”I think I’ll run a webinar series (as many as it takes) for Chief Academic Officers to help them better understand: (1) OER and (2) the difference between “free” and “open.”
I share his frustration. Here’s one humble contribution to making it easier to understand the difference between free and open. A word about each quadrant. On the Fence. 99% of content on the internet probably falls into this category. Old School. Open. No Man’s Land. DOAJ -- Directory of Open Access Journals. License Compatibility. From WikiEducator It seems only natural to assume that an OER with a Creative Commons license could be mixed with an OER with a different license.
Unfortunately, this is not the case. Some licenses are incompatible with others. Probably the most prominent example is Wikipedia, which uses the GNU Free Documentation License, not being compatible with, say, WikiEducator, which uses Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. Although the licenses are similar in intent, they are not compatible; meaning you cannot take Wikipedia material and mix it with material from WikiEducator or other sources (e.g. blogs) that are licensed with a Creative Commons license. This is because of the requirement that derivative works are released under exactly the same license as the source materials. However, it is possible to release a derivative work under a dual license, particularly where the sub-sections can be identified as discrete parts. If I license incorrectly am I going to be sued? What should I do?
About The Licenses. Our public copyright licenses incorporate a unique and innovative “three-layer” design. Each license begins as a traditional legal tool, in the kind of language and text formats that most lawyers know and love. We call this the Legal Code layer of each license. But since most creators, educators, and scientists are not in fact lawyers, we also make the licenses available in a format that normal people can read — the Commons Deed (also known as the “human readable” version of the license). The Commons Deed is a handy reference for licensors and licensees, summarizing and expressing some of the most important terms and conditions.
Think of the Commons Deed as a user-friendly interface to the Legal Code beneath, although the Deed itself is not a license, and its contents are not part of the Legal Code itself. Searching for open content is an important function enabled by our approach. Choose a License. Openlicensingcontinuum.jpg (JPEG Image, 1224 × 792 pixels) - Scaled (72%) EduQuiki - Open Educational Resources. Get your brand new Wikispaces Classroom now and do "back to school" in style. guest| Join | Help | Sign In guest Join | Help | Sign In EduQuiki Home Turn off "Getting Started" Loading...