GETTING TO GOBSMACKED:
FACULTY, STUDENTS & OPEN ACCESS
Stephanie Davis-Kahl, The Ames Library
ACRL/NY Symposium: The Academic Librarian in the Open
Access Future
December 5, 2014

students information
literacy
faculty

Open-access (OA) literature is
digital, online, free of charge,
and free of most copyright and
licensing restrictions.
(Peter Suber)

OPEN ACCESS IS
MULTIFACETED

How Open is It?
(CC-BY, SPARC & PLoS)

INFORMATION LITERACY IS
MULTIFACETED

“Information literacy is a spectrum of abilities,
practices, and habits of mind that extends and
deepens learning through engagement with the
information ecosystem. It includes
• understanding essential concepts about that
ecosystem;
• engaging in creative inquiry and critical
reflection to develop questions and to find,
evaluate, and manage information through an
iterative process;
• creating new knowledge through ethical
participation in communities of learning,
scholarship, and civic purpose; and
• adopting a strategic view of the interests,
biases, and assumptions present in the
information ecosystem.”
Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, ACRL

STUDENTS ARE
CREATORS

INSTRUCTION
OA
Gateway
Research
Methods
Senior
Seminar

STRATEGIES & GOALS
interweave:
define
building
blocks:
explore
dedicated
lecture:
critique

http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc

UNDERGRADUATE
ECONOMIC REVIEW
 Sponsored by the
Department of
Economics
 Infrastructure provided
by The Ames Library
 Open to any
undergraduate economic
student
 Born-digital, open
access, peer-reviewed

IWU DOG
SCIENTISTS
“Our research with
dogs explores
questions of basic
cognition, including
number cognition,
social cognition, and
object cognition.”

FACULTY ARE PARTNERS

• engage
• define
conversation
starters
conversation
drivers • deliver
• advocate
• extend
• repeat
action

THANK YOU
sdaviska@iwu.edu
http://works.bepress.com/stephanie_davis_kahl
@stephdk

REFERENCES/RESOURCES
 Open Access, Peter Suber. Retrieved from
http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm
 How Open is It? SPARC & PLoS. Retrieved from http://www.plos.org/open-access/
howopenisit/
 Diagram, Juan Pablo Bravo, The Noun Project, CC BY. Retrieved from
http://thenounproject.com/term/diagram/23497/
 Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, Association of College &
Research Libraries. Retrieved from http://acrl.ala.org/ilstandards/wp-content/
uploads/2014/11/Framework-for-IL-for-HE-draft-3.pdf
 Photos of the John Wesley Powell Undergraduate Research Conference by Marc
Featherly, IWU Photographer. Retrieved from
https://www.iwu.edu/jwprc/gallery.html
 UK Ministry of Defence, MOD Police Search Dog, CC BY-NC. Retrieved from
https://flic.kr/p/9XK3Hy
 The Start and Finish Line of the "Inishowen 100" Scenic Drive, Andrew_D_Hurley, CC
BY-SA. Retrieved from https://flic.kr/p/awFtXT
 Keener, Molly. (2014). "Contextualizing Copyright: Fostering Students'
Understanding of Their Rights and Responsibilities as Content Creators." Virginia
Libraries, forthcoming.