Open Access Publishing and Digital Libraries: Changing the Teaching/Learning/ Publishing Landscape

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Open Access Publishing and Digital Libraries
Changing the Teaching/Learning/Publishing
Landscape
Alexander Scheeline, Illinois Heather Bullen,
Northern Kentucky Richard S. Kelly, East
Stroudsburg (with special guest David Harvey,
DePauw)
Creative Commons Share and Share Alike
Noncommercial License. May be freely distributed
with attribution and not for commercial purposes.
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Why Open Access/Creative Commons?

• For much of the world, subscription-based
  information is inaccessible
• For much of the world, textbooks are rare,
  expensive, and locked away
• Do we write as an end in itself,or as a means to
  communication?
• Author pays?Reader pays?Library pays?Low
  expenses advertising pays?

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6 Years in 6 Bullet Points

• Ted, Cindy, and Friends
• NSDL, ASDLib, Peer-reviewed Collections
  (absorption?)
• Online Articles/JASDL/Student Posters Original,
  peer-reviewed content
• Spontaneous submissions
• Stimulated submissions
• Community-generated and supported modules

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Nightmares

• gt 1 submission/week
• lt 1 submission/month
• Content with inadequate financial support
• Support with inadequate content
• Reality slow flow, only 1 nightmare, adequate
  support, posters are popular
• Can we achieve critical mass?

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Poster Presence

• 20 posters in current poster session,
  representing 12 colleges/university and 2
  national laboratories, with 3 countries (USA,
  China, Italy) included.
• Additional 52 posters archived,
  viewable/searchable
• Posters left in current session for one year,
  thenrotated into the archive.
• Promotion Treva Brown, Louisiana State
  University 2009 ASDL-ALA Young Scientist Poster
  Award 1270-3P Tu 10-12 AM

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Barriers to Collaborative Teaching and Learning

• NIH (Not Invented Here)
• Institutional and individual identity
• Plagiarism vs. communal learning
• Time allocation content development takes
  timeGood content development takes much
  timeGreat content development takes student
  involvement

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Projects and Directions

• Theres a lot of good stuff on the web.
• Active learning and other innovative lecture /
  lab / independent study content
• Textbooks and Labbooks Rob Thompson, Forensic
  Science LaboratoryStan Manahan, Green
  ChemistryDavid Harvey, Analytical
  ChemistryExperimental Spectroscopy?

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Building on Modern Analytical Chemistry

• What will be the nature of peer review?
• Need for sustained stewardship
• Database to support stewardship
• Do production values matter?
• Is Wikipedia the future of textbooks?

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The Unfilled Need Merely a Shell
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Publish in JASDL

• Best educational practices
• Courseware teaching modules, simulations,
  videos, projects
• Labware active learning, NOT cookbook. Guided
  Inquiry Learning
• Student posters