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Open Access and More
For SHU librarians for now, a place to keep track of open access resources and other useful information
Open Educational Resources
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Open Educational ResourcesPlease visit our research guide for OER
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State of NJ Act on OERsThis Act requires institutions of higher education to develop open textbooks
available to students at no charge and requires buyback of used textbooks at 50% of purchase price.
Special Issue on Open Access
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Journal of Scholarly Publishing Special Issuethe Journal of Scholarly Publishing has published a special issue on Open Access
Open Access Video
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In support of Open AccessA video from Piled Higher & Deeper Productions. (PhD)
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What is Open Access
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment.
Free movie about open access to scholarship
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Paywall: the business of scholarshipPaywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier and looks at how that profit margin is often greater than some of the most profitable tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Google.
