open access
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The “Open Access” movement advocates open access attitude to scholastic endeavours. Open Access Week is a key opportunity for all members of the community to take action to keep this momentum moving forward.TRANSCRIPT
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OUR OPEN ACCESS WEEKJoin us for a week of workshops in our
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18 – 24 OCTOBER 2010
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WHAT DOES THE CONCEPT OF ‘OPENNESS’ ENCOMPASS?
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ATTRIBUTES OF OPENNESS
• Social openness• Technical openness• Legal openness• Financial openness
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• Social openness consists of ensuring that a work is made available and not kept secret or mouldering on a CD at the back of the drawer.
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• Knowledge is legally open if it is free of most of the standard legal restrictions and requirements.
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• Technological openness requires that knowledge is provided in a form and format that does not unnecessarily hinder access to humans or machines.
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• Financial 'openness' entails, at a minimum, no cost to the consumer or user of the resource.
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OPEN ACCESS
‘At the heart of the movement toward Open Educational Resources is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general and the Worldwide Web in particular provides an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge’.William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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WORKSHOP
MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
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18 – 24 October 2010