Presentation at OER22, London, 26th April 2022.

1. Photo by Raimond Klavins on Unsplash
26th April 2022
Professor Mark Brown
Dublin City University
Foo-Foo the Snoo Returns:
In Praise of Slow Reading with Open Scholarship

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tZHwhJzkLo

3. https://humanmollusk.tumblr.com/post/113231832881/foo-foo

7. • Professional reading is important
• We are awash in a deluge of publications
• Finding time for ‘slow’ reading is a real challenge
Three underlying assumptions...

8. “Quick, hasty and haphazard reading limits the
opportunity to open ourselves to new imaginings
that come through deeper critical reflections”
Central thesis...

9. 146
open access
alone

10. 270
Journals

11. Mahon, A., & Henry, S. (2021), But who
are all these journal articles for? Writing,
reading and our unhandsome
condition, Cambridge Journal of
Education, DOI: 10.1080/0305764X.2021.
1933903
A critique
of the new
‘culture of
speed’

12. Have you seen our list of top 10
“good reads” for 2021?
https://nidl.blog

14. • What selection criteria 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 contributes to the selection process and decides what
makes the final cult of top 10 journal articles?
Common questions...

15. Quick facts...

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A diverse range of journals

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Some notable geographical gaps

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20. In 2021

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25. In 2021
Many of the
“best reads”
are still behind
restricted gates

26. • What was your top read from 2021?
• How do you filter the literature to ascertain
whether a publication or journal article is worthy
of reading?
Foo-Foo the Snoo returns...
• How much time (truthfully) do you
spend ‘slow’ reading the literature
and is this long enough?

28. Go raibh maith
agaibh!
Thank you