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Open Reading with your Eyes Shut: Demystifying Foo-Foo the Snoo
This document summarizes a presentation given by Mark Brown from the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University on April 21, 2021 about identifying and ranking the top open access journal articles from 2020. It discusses filtering strategies for identifying relevant publications and highlights that many "best reads" remain behind paywalls. The presentation also asks attendees about their strategies for staying up to date and identifying high quality open access articles.
Open Reading with your Eyes Shut: Demystifying Foo-Foo the Snoo
- 1. Open Reading withyour Eyes Shut: Demystifying Foo-Foo the Snoo Mark Brown Mairead Nic Giolla Mhichil & Eamon Costello National Institute for Digital Learning Dublin City University 21 April 2021
- 2. Open Reading withyour Eyes Shut: Demystifying Foo-Foo the Snoo Mark Brown Mairead Nic Giolla Mhichil & Eamon Costello National Institute for Digital Learning Dublin City University 21 April 2021
- 7. Question for you... •What’s your No 1 “go to” source of professional reading to keep up-to-date?
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- 10. • Drowning inopenness • Need to develop filtering strategy • Supporting a scholarly reading culture The problem...
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- 12. • What selectioncriteria do you adopt to help identify a really good (open access) journal article? • What selection methodology do you use to help identify the top 10 open access journal articles for the year? • Who do you involve in the selection process to help enhance the validity of the list of top 10 (open access) journal articles? Key questions...
- 13. In 2020 Have youseen last year’s top 10 list? https://nidl.blog
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- 15. Quick facts... • 28authors • Authors: men 40% | women 60% • 5 US-based articles | 3 UK/Europe • Only 2 articles singled authored • AJET no longer No 1 place • 4 journals appear for the first time In 2020
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- 20. In 2020 Many ofthe “best reads” are still behind restricted gates
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- 25. • What wasyour top read from 2020 and why? • How do you filter the literature to quickly ascertain whether a publication or journal article is worth reading? Returning to Foo-Foo the Snoo... • What one tip would you offer other educators to help them locate the best journal articles to be reading?
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