The UBC Library provides access to server space and to the open source OJS (Open Journal Systems) software for UBC faculty members who are editing or supporting Open Access electronic journals as well as recognized UBC student journal.
The mission of the Council on Undergraduate Research is to support and promote high-quality undergraduate student-faculty collaborative research and scholarship
Thx for sharing, only problem withh MOOCs is student should be tech savvy and he needs comp and internet, Else MOOCs are very much useful for students who are geographically very far away and financially poor.
I believe in "Bridging the gap between academics' hunger for quality, reputation and positive assessment and distribution model is key" Young researcher's work published in open access journals should be more valued than the other(subscription journals). Then change starts automatically.
Please have a look for efficient internet searching. I feel this also plays an important factor for Information literacy. These days, everyone is expected to be up to speed on Internet search techniques. But there are still a few tricks that some users -- and even savvy searchers -- may not be aware of.
If you want to give people the right to share, use, and even build upon a work you've created, you should consider publishing it under a Creative Commons license. CC gives you flexibility (for example, you can choose to allow only non-commercial uses) and protects the people who use your work, so they don't have to worry about copyright infringement, as long as they abide by the conditions you have specified.
It describes detailed history of OER and it also explains the scope and nature of open educational resources,Licensing and Types of OER,OER policy,Initiatives.
This Guide comprises three sections. The first - a summary of the key issues - is presented in the form of a set of 'Frequently Asked Questions'. Its purpose is to provide readers with a quick and user-friendly introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) and some of the key issues to think about when exploring how to use OER most effectively. The second section is a more comprehensive analysis of these issues, presented in the form of a traditional research paper.
BioMed Central provides free, immediate online access to the full text of all research articles published within its portfolio of 272 peer-reviewed journals, and through its open access waiver fund, enables scientific authors in low-income countries to overcome the financial barriers to publishing in open access journals
This is a list of open-access journals, by field. The list contains selected, particularly notable journals with at least some free content, available through all forms of open access, including delayed open access, and hybrid open access. It only includes individual journals, not collections or indexing services
