The readings and discussions this year have provided me with the impetus to conduct a census of Trexler Library’s digital archives and special collections materials to assess the openness (or lack thereof) with which they have been shared. As short a time as two years ago, even the papyrus collection, which most clearly precedes any possible claim of copyright(!), was …

Over the past year, I have coordinated a Faculty Learning Community on Open Scholarship. In this post, I briefly discuss the progress on the project associated with my participation and some of the lessons that I have learned through organizing and participating in this FLC. First, my project has morphed significantly over the year. What… Read more Final Post- FLC …

Throughout our OER reading group, I have explored the idea of how instructors in different disciplines could consistently incorporate critically thinking about information in their teaching, including but not limited to issues such as access (open and otherwise), authority, and power structures. In pursuit of this goal, I led a session at the Information Literacy Roundtable (at Muhlenberg) in January …

For the Spring, I will continue to work on an issue that has stymied me for years. An mechanism for sharing and collaborating openly using geospatial data. Collaboration is key to many types of research and more research is becoming spatially oriented. Archaeology has always been spatial and frequently collaborative. Yet there are no good tools for collaboration with geospatial …

This morning I read the article by Gina Kolata in the New York Times entitled, Many Academics Are Eager to Publish in Worthless Journals. The article discusses predatory journals, which are “journals” (if we bend that term beyond recognition) that are willing to publish anyone, have little to no editorial staff and do not employ peer-review… Read more Openness and predatory …

This is a quick post about this website and how I hope it will now work. It started off very clunky and did not work the way I planned. This was partially due to some unexpected limitations in WordPress. I am keeping my fingers crossed that recent changes will improve interaction. The primary goal of the website is to provide …

As a part of the Faculty Learning Community on Open Scholarship, participants are required to submit short responses for each session (for details see here). The goal behind these responses is to encourage open communication by to sharing issues important to individual members of the group. This opens up avenues of discussion others may not have considered. How is openness …