>From Peter Suber's blog
The OA workshop at Online Educa Berlin
Online Educa tackles lifelong learning and open
access, a press release from JISC, November 30, 2006.
Excerpt:
Delegates have been gathering for the world's
largest e-learning conference which began in Berlin
yesterday. The Online Educa conference on Technology
and Supported Learning, now in its twelfth year, has
attracted nearly 2,000 delegates from education,
research, Government and commercial sectors from
around the world....
Joint activities by JISC and SURF began in the
afternoon with a workshop on open access. JISC
Scholarly Communications consultant Fred Friend
introduced the topic, saying that there were
considerable economic, social and educational benefits
to making research and other outputs available without
financial, legal and technical barriers to access. It
was also, he suggested, a question of giving more
power to authors.
He outlined the two complementary routes to open
access. Self-archiving or the deposit of a pre-print
or post-print in an institutional or subject
repository is one route, he said, while the other is
publication through an open access journal....Both
routes, suggested Fred Friend, will enable the
opportunities provided by technological developments,
such as data mining and text mining, to be
realised....There are significant economic benefits to
open access too, he continued, through the sharing of
developments in medical research, for example, and
through the value for money gains of publicly funded
research being more freely available....
Amber Thomas, JISC programme manager spoke about
JISC's work to encourage the establishment and
development of repositories in the UK....
Erik Saaman of SURF spoke about open access
initiatives in the Netherlands, such as DAREnet
(research), LOREnet (higher education), Edurep
(non-HE) and Driver (European), and the common
technical architectures which underpin them....
Ryan Hargreaves gave an overview of Jorum, the
free online repository for learning and teaching
resources which is aiming to create a culture of
sharing of learning and teaching resources....
John May of the SURF Foundation spoke about
LOREnet which is aiming to create a similar 'community
of sharing' in the use of online teaching materials in
the Netherlands....
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