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. 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. Open Access and scientific breakthroughs. 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.
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? 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) 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. A word about each quadrant. 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. Because of the many different types of licenses available, and all the possible combinations, it is difficult to explain every possible license incompatibility. If I license incorrectly am I going to be sued? The short answer is: possibly. This license thing seems really complicated, is this all really necessary? About The Licenses.
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