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A guide to open educational resources

Releasing open educational resources is not simply about putting learning and teaching material online; it involves making the material available in a genuinely open way. Creative Commons or similar licenses are used so that the creator of the resources can retain copyright, while others can copy, distribute, and make some uses of their work. OER can be looked upon as a process as well as a set of products. This is because educators need to rethink the way in which they create, use and distribute learning and teaching materials.

Request for Proposals for a study into how best universities can be supported in dealing with new open access demands

Request for Proposals for a study into how best universities can be supported in dealing with new open access demands

Open Call inciated by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and the Wellcome Trust, submission deadline: July, 31st 2012, 17:00; maximum funding £20,000.

 The Finch report has stated that universities will have to be increasingly efficient in the way they pay for open access publishing in the form of article processing charges (APCs). 

Responding to the recommendation, JISC and the Wellcome Trust, on behalf of the UK Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG) are commissioning work to investigate how we can help universities, publishers and funders manage the charges efficiently and also what role an intermediary might play in making the process work smoothly.