This document discusses information literacy and open access resources. It defines information literacy as the ability to identify, locate, evaluate, and share information. It notes that the amount of available information is growing rapidly and that not all information is reliable. The document then discusses open access, describing it as digital content that is free to access and reuse, with few copyright restrictions. It provides examples of open access libraries, digital libraries, repositories, journals, and databases that provide free access to scholarly works.

1. e-skills IP - Competences for Collaboration and Knowledge
Sharing in Digital Society
Digital and Information Literacy
Dina Rocha and Ana Loureiro

2. Information Literacy
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3. Information Literacy1
WHAT IS ?
- ability to identify what information is needed;
- understand how the information is organized;
- identify the best sources of information for a given need;
- locate those sources;
- evaluate the sources critically;
- and share that information.
WHY IS IMPORTANT?
- we are surrounded by a growing ocean of information in all formats;
- not all information is created equal: some is authoritative, current, reliable, but
some is biased, out of date, misleading, false;
- the amount of information available is going to keep increasing;
- The types of technology used to access, manipulate, and create information will
likewise expand.
1 University of Idaho ,2013 – Information literacy. Information Literacy Portal. url: http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/info_literacy/
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4. Open Access
• SPARC - The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
• articles and data are digital, online, free of charge for everyone and they
are,
• free of most copyright and licensing restrictions which means,
• users are free to reuse as long as they give appropriate credits to the
creator.
• Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2001
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and
Humanities, 2003
• IFLA – International Federation Library Association
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5. Open Access Resources
Libraries in the twenty-first century
Biblioteca de Alexandria
Biblioteca de Nova Iorque
Biblioteca no Texas,
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6. Open Access Resources
Digital Library
WorldDigitalLibrary
Free access to cultural treasures from libraries and museums around the
world. Rare books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, and more on a
multilingual site. UNESCO
Europeana
Europeana is a simple but powerful tool for finding resources from all over
Europe. Books, journals, films, maps, photos, music etc. will be available for
everyone to consult – and to use, copyright permitting.
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7. Open Access Resources
• Repositories: preserves and provides the intellectual production, in
full text and open access
subject or institutional
ROAR - Registry of Open Access Repositories
promote the development of open access by providing timely information about
the growth and status of repositories throughout the world
DRIVER - Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision
for European Research
OpenDOAR - The Directory of Open Access
Repositories
is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories
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8. Open Access Resources
Journal Open Access
• DOAJ - Directory of open access journals
• Revues.org
• Érudit
• Scielo - Scientific Electronic Library Online
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9. Open Access Resources
Databases
• Science Direct
• Open Access Databases – references
• GoogleScholar
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10. Information Literacy1
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