1. Celebrating International Open Access Week
Opening the Door to Education
@ Health Sciences Library
22-28 October 2012

3. What is OA?
“Open Access” to information – the
free, immediate, online access to the
results of scholarly research, and the right
to use and re-use those results as you
need – has the power to transform the way
research and scientific inquiry are
conducted. It has direct and widespread
implications for
academia, medicine, science, industry, an
d for society as a whole.
Open Access Week. 2012. http://www.openaccessweek.org/page/about

4. Why is OA important?
• Everyone has access to the
research available.
• Does not depend on high
subscription prices for journals.
• Allows for greater opportunities to
disseminate knowledge and
create ne knowledge.
THIS IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT
IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

5. Open Access Journals
Just because it is open, does not
always mean it is GOOD QUALITY.
Check the accredited open access
journal list
http://www.library.up.ac.za/aoajsa/aoajsa_S.htm

6. OA resources

7. UCT’s Commitment to Open
Education
Cape Town Open Education Declaration. n.d. http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/

10. What are Open Eduction
Resources (OER)?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are
teaching and learning materials that are
freely available online for everyone to
use, whether you are an instructor,
student or self-learner.
Open Educational Resources infoKit. https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/24836860/What%20are%20Open%20Educational%20Resources

11. Examples of OER
• Full courses • Pedagogical
• Course modules materials
• Syllabi • Games
• Lectures • Simulations
• Homework • Quizzes
assignments • Lab and
classroom
activities

12. Examples of OER from
UCT Open Content

13. http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/Hu
manities/Youth-violence-
Sources-and-solutions-in-South-
Africa

14. Mitchell, V. 2012.
http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/Health-
Sciences/Public-Health-and-Family-
Medicine/OER4Us

15. Gamieldien, F. 2011.
http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/Healt
h-Sciences/Disability-Studies-Post-
Graduate-Students-Inspire-New-
Ways-of-Understanding-Disability-
in-Africa

16. Clinical Skills laboratory.
2011.
http://opencontent.uct.a
c.za/Health-
Sciences/Blood-Culture-
Procedure

17. What about copyright?

18. Copyright
• Copyright is a legal concept,
enacted by most governments,
giving the creator of an original
work exclusive rights to it, usually
for a limited time.
• Generally, it is "the right to copy",
but also gives the copyright holder
the right to be credited for the
work, to determine who may
adapt the work to other forms,
who may perform the work, who
may financially benefit from it,
and other related rights.
• Did you know that you own the
copyright of everything that you
create?

19. OERs and Copyright
Does making your work open mean
that you lose your rights?
NO
You can license them under

20. What are Creative
Commons?
• Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit
organization devoted to expanding the range
of creative works available for others to build
upon legally and to share. The organization
has released several copyright-
licenses known as Creative Commons
licenses free of charge to the public.
• These licenses allow creators to
communicate which rights they reserve, and
which rights they waive for the benefit of
recipients or other creators.

21. What are Creative
Commons? (cont.)
• Creative Commons licenses do not replace
copyright, but are based upon it. They replace
individual negotiations for specific rights
between copyright owner (licensor) and
user (licensee), which are necessary under
an "all rights reserved" copyright
management with a "some rights reserved"
management employing standardized
licenses for re-use cases where no
commercial compensation is sought by the
copyright owner.

22. Creative Commons Symbols Explained

23. Creative Commons Licences
Licence Symbol Type of Use You Can Attribution Required
Attribution (by) Commercial and non Copy and enhance Yes
commercial (adapt or modify),
redistribute (publish,
display, exhibit,
publicly perform or
communicate eg by
email or by placing on
a website) and license
to others on any
terms.
Attribution Share Alike Commercial and non Copy, enhance and Yes
(by-sa) commercial redistribute but you
must make the new
work available on
same licence terms as
original

24. Creative Commons Licences
(cont.)
Attribution No Commercial and non Copy but not Yes
Derivatives (by-nd) commercial enhance. Redistribute
only in original form.
Attribution Non- Non Commercial only Copy, enhance and Yes
commercial (by-nc) redistribute. License
to others on any terms.
Attribution Non- Non Commercial only Copy, enhance and Yes
commercial Share redistribute but you
Alike (by-nc-sa) must make the new
work available on
same licence terms as
original
Attribution Non- Non commercial only Copy but not enhance. Yes
commercial No Redistribute only in
Derivatives (by-nc-nd) original form.

26. Interested?
Join us on Wednesday, 24 October
for a session on how to find OA and
OER materials
Where: Health Sciences Library, Level 8
Time: 13h00-14h00
Look forward to seeing you there