The theme for Open Access Week, October 19-25, is “Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion.” Open Access allows for the unrestricted sharing of scholarly research and offers an alternative to a traditional subscription model that is costly and hidden behind a paywall. It has the potential to greatly accelerate the…
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Writing and Publishing an Open Textbook
Are you considering creating an open textbook for a course? Ideal for online and traditional learning environments, open educational resources allow for faculty innovation while increasing student access and cost savings. There are many online tools available to guide the process and research support and curricular technology staff can assist in all steps of the…
Shain Library Celebrates Open Education Week, March 2-6, 2020
Open educational resources have replaced traditional textbooks in many courses at the College resulting in significant cost savings for students. Faculty in biology, math, economics and other departments have adopted open textbooks. Professor Derek Turner, in the philosophy department, has written an open textbook, Form and Content: An Introduction to Formal Logic, for his introductory…
Announcing the 2019 OER Exploration Grant Recipients
Information Services is excited to announce the eleven faculty who have received the Open Educational Resources (OER) Exploration Grant for 2019. The grant includes a monetary award as well as staff assistance to explore and investigate open resources that can be used in courses in lieu of traditional textbooks. The grant aims to reduce educational…
Welcome to the public domain, 1923!
On January 1, 2019, thousands of creative works published in 1923 were released into the public domain. This is the first time in 20 years that new material entered the public domain, including literary works, periodicals, dramatic works, movies, musical works, artistic works, and choreography. Now, every year on January 1st, a new batch of…
2019 Digital Scholarship Fellows Program: Call for Proposals
Have you ever wanted to create a digital companion for a book project? Do you have collections of research materials collecting dust or physically degrading in your office, or large datasets you’d like to develop into maps or visualizations to accompany your written scholarship? Would you like your students to actively engage with Special Collections…
Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts Symposium, November 12
On Monday, November 12, join Information Services and the Office of the Dean of Faculty for the inaugural Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts Symposium at Connecticut College. You can see the full schedule and details here. The symposium is the culminating event of the first year of the Digital Scholarship Fellows Program, funded by…
Open Access Week 2018
Every year in October we celebrate Open Access Week, an international celebration of everything open. If this doesn’t sound familiar, read up on the topic through the (brief!) blog posts we published in previous years: What is Open Access Impact of Open Access Local to Global Open Access Is Your Work Still Yours? Teaching Open…
Teaching with Wikipedia, the Fall 2017 Edition
This fall I am again working with Wikipedia in my Feminist Theory course (check out: Why You And Your Students Should Work To Improve Wikipedia, Feminist Praxis and Wikipedia in the Classroom, and Adding Voices to Scholarship: Wikipedia Editing). It’s the second time that I’m mixing the Wiki Education Foundation’s online dashboard with our Linda Lear Center’s…
Impact of Open Access
I’m a young researcher from Guatemala who has been asked by a national TV channel to talk about climate change and hurricanes in an interview. Having access to this highly relevant article gave me the chance to prepare for the interview and provide the most science-based information. Thanks!! Director at a research institute in Guatemala,…