This workshop will serve as an introduction to Open Access (OA) and open educational resources with a specific focus on the needs and concerns of humanities scholars. We will examine the advantages of making traditional publications openly available and explore venues and opportunities for different types of Open Access publishing in the humanities. We will also look at the potential benefits and drawbacks of making work publicly available earlier in the research life cycle and of publishing non-traditional forms of scholarly communication: blogs, articles, presentations, and more. Finally, we will spend some time exploring openly published course materials, learning objects, and other educational resources, discussing how humanities scholars can employ open thinking to increase student retention and engagement in the classroom while contributing to and benefiting from the expertise of a broader pedagogical community.
This event is part of Columbia University Library's Open Access Week event, "Opening Up Research for the Greater Good? Ethics, Privacy, and Data" and will be followed by a panel and roundtable discussion at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at 4pm.
