Open Access Resources for Academics with IAL (KL-OARA)

Note that this course and ‘Open Access Resources for Librarians’ are parallel workshops intended to demonstrate the importance and advantages of complimentary use of open access and institutional repositories to both communities. Institutions requesting this as an in-house course may like to consider running Open Access Resources for Librarians on the preceding or following day

Objectives

The course will ensure that academics and scholars understand the significance of the open access movement and the wide range of free resources opening up to them. It will demonstrate the importance of repositories – both as a source of scholarly literature and as a promotional tool for their own published materials. The emphasis in this course will be on depositing pre- and post-prints to the institutional or subject repository and on locating e-resources in repositories and open access journals

Outcomes

At the end of the course, participants will have:

  • Considered the peer review process and its relationship with open access
  • Understand Open Access in all its forms, including open access journals and institutional / subject repositories
  • Examined the value of institutional repositories in relation to scholarly publishing
  • Understand the role of research councils
  • Understand the uses to which institutional repositories can be put and the kinds of material that can be deposited
  • Considered data curation and the possibilities of data in repositories
  • Looked at the article deposit process
  • Explored a range of search tools and sources

Facilitators

Chris Armstrong
Peter Underwood

Duration of the programme

This course is offered as a 1 day Workshop