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What is Open Access (OA) scholarship? What are Open Educational Resources (OER)? Did you know that it is often Creative Commons licenses that make these things "open"? Watch the video below to learn more about OA and OER at URI.
Content sources:
Creative Commons. n.d. "CC Certificate Unit 5: Creative Commons for Librarians." Accessed November 20, 2018. https://certificates.creativecommons.org/about/certificate-resources-cc-by/.
Rathemacher, Andrée. "URI Open Access Fund: Evaluating OA Journals." LibGuides @ URI. Accessed November 20, 2018. https://uri.libguides.com/oafund/oajournals.
Rathemacher, Andrée. "URI Open Access Fund: Frequently Asked Questions." LibGuides @ URI. Accessed November 20, 2018. https://uri.libguides.com/oafund/faq.
SPARC. "Open Education." Accessed November 21, 2018. https://sparcopen.org/open-education/.
Suber, Peter. "Open Access Overview." Accessed November 20, 2018. https://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm.
Swan, Alma. 2010. The Open Access Citation Advantage: Studies and Results to Date. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268516/.
Image sources:
CC BY button by Creative Commons
February is African American History Month 160225-F-LV269-009 by Airman 1st Class Taylor Shelton, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons / Cropped from original
Fountain-pen-nib white1 by BenFrantzDale, modified by Przykuta, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under CC BY 3.0
OER Logo Open Educational Resources by Markus Büsges (leomaria design) für Wikimedia Deutschland e. V., licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons / Lightened from original
Open Access logo PLoS white by art designer at PLoS, modified by Wikipedia users Nina, Beao, and JokobVoss, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
"Open Book" by Dave Dugdale is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Rosy-faced lovebirds (Agapornis roseicollis roseicollis) composite 2 of 3 by Charles J Sharp, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons / Cropped from original
Student in Class (3618969705) by Tulane Public Relations, licensed under CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons / Cropped from original
University of Rhode Island Brandmark by University of Rhode Island
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This guide was created by URI librarian Andrée Rathemacher in fall 2018 as part of her course assignments for the Creative Commons Certificate.
Andrée Rathemacher, 10/2018-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.