Open Education Week (March 1-5, 2021, #OEWeek) is a time when educators around the world come together to learn and share practices around Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Pedagogy. While there are a host of excellent webinars and events to tune into this week, let’s also celebrate our local faculty who are creating openly licensed resources, tailoring existing OER to better fit the needs of their students, and creating courses with fewer barriers to learning. Integrating OERContinue reading “Celebrating Open Education Week”
Author Archives: Mahrya Burnett
UI authors can now make Cambridge articles Open Access for free
On the heels of its recent arrangement with PLOS, the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) has entered into a second contract to bundle the cost of journal subscriptions and Open Access (OA) publishing, this time with publisher, Cambridge University Press. Under this agreement, UI corresponding authors can publish their journal articles OA and free of cost to them, in any of Cambridge’s journals.* These articles can then be read by anyone, anywhere,Continue reading “UI authors can now make Cambridge articles Open Access for free”
Big Ten Academic Alliance Signs new PLOS Deal
If you’ve ever considered publishing Open Access (OA) in PLOS Biology or PLOS Medicine, it just got a lot more affordable. The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), of which University of Iowa is a member, just signed a three-year deal with the OA mega-journal publisher, PLOS, allowing corresponding authors at any Big 10 university to publish in these two journals without any cost to the author. This agreementContinue reading “Big Ten Academic Alliance Signs new PLOS Deal”
2019: The Year of Public Domain
For the first time in 20 years, artistic works copyrighted in the U.S. will enter the public domain, opening up a trove of material published during 1923 to be freely digitized, read, and used as the basis for new works. But why is this happening now? After all, shouldn’t copyrights expire and works enter intoContinue reading “2019: The Year of Public Domain”