why openness can benefit the university of minnesota

Why Openness Will Benefit the

University of Minnesota?

Open Education Conference 2012 (Oct 16-18) http://openedconference.org/2012/

Open Access Week 2012 (Oct 22-26) http://www.openaccessweek.org/

Steam Engine, Micro Chips, Light Bulbs, etc. Technium (Kevin Kelly)

Open Textbooks, Open Access, Open Source, etc. Openness (David Wiley)

“Openness”

Open Minnesota

“Extend, apply, and exchange knowledge between the University and society by applying scholarly expertise to community problems, by helping organizations and individuals respond to their changing environments, and by making the knowledge and resources created and preserved at the University accessible to the citizens of the state, the nation, and the world.”

U of M – Mission : Outreach and Service

http://www.eso.org/sci/libraries/OApublishing.html

Visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access

The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) is a public statement of principles relating to open access to the research literature. It arose from a conference convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute on December 1–2, 2001 to promote open access – at the time also known as Free Online Scholarship.

It was estimated that there were around 19,500 articles published OA in 2000, while

the number has grown to 191,850 articles in 2009.

https://www.lib.umn.edu/scholcom

http://www.righttoresearch.org/

Opportunities for Students to Publish, to work as Editors, and to Advocate

While we are expected to build on the achievement of past giants, without having access to their research we may not be aware of all that has come before us. We might not be able to include their work as a reference, and end up merely duplicating previously published findings, instead of investing our time and effort to explore cutting edge issues and produce new knowledge that would build upon their work and be helpful for all of humanity.

Open Textbooks

Open Courses

Open Courses (Pilot)

Open Videos

Open Videos UMN

Open Innovation

Open Innovation at UMN

Increasing Connections

Open Government

Open Government UMN

Open to Change

Working together to solve future challenges