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Open Scholarship

Introduction

Research Guide Aims and Goals

This research guide is intended as an overview of open scholarship resources available to researchers across a range of academic disciplines. The resources and tools highlighted within this guide have been selected to support the aims and objectives of all programs at Teachers College but is especially useful for those enrolled in non-credit bearing courses or with limited access to paywalled databases. 

An umbrella with the text "Open Scholarship" superimposed over it. There are seven boxes with text under the umbrella. The text in each box read, clockwise from top-right, "Open Access," "Open Science," Open Source," "Ethical Issues," "Open Data," "Open Educational Resources," and "Open Publishing." On top and surrounding the umbrella are a lot of copyright symbols, acting as raindrops.

 

Useful Terms

Open Access (OA) describes a set of principles and publishing practices through which scholarly literature can be distributed digitally, free of charge, and with often includes the removal of barriers to copying or reusing the aforementioned works.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials designed to be publically accessible for anyone to used, remixed, revised, redistributed, and adapted for local contexts. These are designed to reduce accessibility barriers to educational materials.

Open-source Software aims to give people open access to source code, which can be shared and adapted to new applications

Open Data aims to give people access to data, to republish and analyse without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.

Paywall is a method of restricting access to content to users who purchase the content or purchase a subscription. 

Embargo is a period of time set by a publisher, where access articles from an academic journal is not allowed. 

An illustration of a cat surrounded by brick walls with signs that say pay. Different types of content are on the other side of the walls. This is illustrating the concept of a paywall.

David Revoy, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

OA and OER will provide access to high-quality, peer-reviewed articles without the need for a subscription.  

Learn More

To learn more about OA and OER click on their associated links on the left-menu. To see a OA or OER resources and tools click on one of the resource types on the left-menu.