For the Fall 2018 Creative Commons Certification

1. Open Access
and Open
Educational
Resources
Mandi Goodsett, Fall 2018
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution
4.0 International License.

2. Have you heard
someone call a
journal open access
before?

3. Or refer to an
assignment as an
open educational
resource?

4. What do these
terms mean? How
are they different?
And why do people
care about them?

5. Open Access
literature
Is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most
copyright and licensing limitations.

6. Open Access
literature
Is an alternative to the closed system that
exists today.

7. In contrast to the current funding cycle ...

8. Open Access offers an alternative that opens
up scholarship.

9. In the closed system ...
● Governments provide the
majority of funding for research.
● Researchers share their
research and review peers’
research for no monetary
compensation.
● Once the research is published,
academic institutions and
researchers must pay again to
access it.

10. In the open system ...
● Governments provide the
majority of funding for research
and stipulate that results must
be made openly available.
● Researchers choose to share
their research in open access
journals.
● Once the research is published,
anyone who needs access to the
research can get it at no cost.

11. Open Access
Is important because it makes scholarship more
freely available to everyone, which drives
progress and innovation.

12. So how is open
access different
from open
education?

13. Open education
Is a movement, a set of practices, and a community
with the goal of making quality education materials
available to all without cost to the end user.

14. An open educational
resource (OER)
Is educational material shared at no cost with legal
permissions that allow the public to freely use,
share, and build upon the content.

15. An open educational
resource (OER)
Is both 1) free to the end user, and 2) openly
licensed so that students and teachers know they
have permissions to use the content in various ways.

16. Open Educational Resources often allow for
the “5 R” Permissions:
● Retain (keep and control copies)
● Reuse
● Revise (adapt and modify)
● Remix (mash up with other open content to create
something new)
● Redistribute (share copies with others)

17. Open Educational
Resources
Are important because they improve access to education,
driving progress around the world, and they allow for greater
flexibility in the classroom, improving the educational
experience for teachers and for learners.

18. So how are they different?
Open Access …
● Is a movement generally focused on
academic scholarship
● Mostly refers to ability to access
and share work, not necessarily to
modify it
● Describes work that is
permanently online, like scholarly
articles and journals
Open Educational Resources
● Include any material that could be
used for education (including OA
articles)
● Are often both freely available for
access and licensed to allow for
modification and remixing, which
is important for education
● Includes work that is online or in
print

19. Both open access
and open education
Are striving to make intellectual property more freely available
for the benefit of individual researchers, teachers, and
students, and for society as a whole.

20. Want to know more about Open Access and
Open Education?
See our research guides!
● Copyright Guide
● Open Educational Resources Guide
● Open Software Guide
● Public Domain and Open Content Guide
Or, ask a librarian!

21. References (in order of use)
● “Creative Commons Certificate Course content” by Creative Commons is
licensed under a CC BY 4.0 International license.
● “Open Access Overview” by Peter Suber is licensed under a CC BY 3.0 US license.
● “Research Articles Cycles” by Billymeinke is licensed under a CC BY 3.0 US
license.
● “Lab Laboratory Research Scientific” by felixioncool is in the Public Domain
under CC0 1.0.
● “Hands Laptop Computer Typing” by JaneMarySnyder is in the Public Domain
under CC0 1.0.
● “Open Access Logo PLoS White” by PLoS and modified by Nina, Beao, JakobVoss,
and Mandi Goodsett is in the Public Domain under CC0 1.0.