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The Wired Campus - The Closing of an Open-Access Journal - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Models for Sustainable Open Educational Resources ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
"This short essay is about the sustainability of OERs. Most people, when they think of sustainability, think of how resources are paid for, but this essay takes a wider view, for it should be clear that this is only one part of a larger picture. So we will what they are, who creates them, how we pay for this, how we distribute them and how we work with them. Only if we understand the answers to these questions can we address how OERs are to be sustained."
OER Case Study Project - OER Commons Wiki
"A wide range of individuals and organizations are actively involved in the development of free-to-use open educational resources (OER). Partly because the field is so new, there have been few opportunities to share learnings and advances within and across projects and boundaries. Little is known, for example, about how projects are facilitating the adaptation of open content by diverse users, what structures they are instilling to support peer production, and how they are attempting to inspire community engagement.
ISKME is working with six projects to help them build capacity to track, analyze and share key developments in the creation, use and reuse of open educational resources (OER), and in the practices and models that play a role in project sustainability. The aim is to enable projects to discover unknown or untapped potential, facilitate decision making around which practices to change and which to maintain, learn how other OER projects have overcome similar challenges, and advance the field at large by contributing new knowledge which others can build upon. "
The Journal of Electronic Publishing: Toward the Design of an Open Monograph Press
John Willinsky: "This paper reviews and addresses the critical issues currently confronting monograph publishing as a matter of reduced opportunities for scholars to pursue book-length projects. In response, it proposes an alternative approach to monograph publishing based on a modular design for an online system that would foster, manage, and publish monographs in digital and print forms using open source software developments, drawn from journal publishing, and social networking technologies that might contribute to not only to the sustainability of monograph publishing but to the quality of the resulting books."
Morrison Rethinking Collections
"Open access, one of the most important of the potentials unleashed by the combination of the electronic medium and the World Wide Web, is already much more substantial in extent that most of us realize. More than 10 percent of the world’s scholarly peer–reviewed journals are fully open access; this does not take into account the many journals offering hybrid open choice, free back access, or allowing authors to self–archive their works. Scientific Commons includes more than 16 million publications, nearly twice as much content as Science Direct. Meanwhile, even as we continue to focus on the scholarly peer–reviewed journal article, other potentials of the new technology are beginning to appear, such as open data and scholarly blogging. This paper examines the library collection of the near and medium future, suggests that libraries and librarians are in a key position to lead in the transition to an open age, and provides specific suggestions to aid in the transition."
Research Librarians Discuss How to Sell Scholars on Open Access, and More - Libraries - The Chronicle of Higher Education
"The ARL has hired two consultants, October Ivins of Ivins eContent Solutions and Judy Luther of Informed Strategies, to study at-risk, peer-reviewed journals with no electronic incarnation or good e-subscription model. The team is assessing 4,000 such journals "to see if there isn't an opportunity for the libraries to help" them survive, Ms. Luther explained. She and Ms. Ivins described the study at a working session of the ARL's Scholarly Communication Steering Committee, chaired by James G. Neal, university librarian at Columbia University, and again at a briefing for the wider meeting."
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