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Share, Use, Remix: Sites to Find Open Creative Commons Licensed Content

The seven CC licenses and their terms. ​​​​​CC0 1.0 This week, we’re celebrating Open Education Week and the continued exploration of open resources, practices, and tools! If you’re looking for media to spice up your work a...

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Open Education Week 2024 and OERizona

March 4th to March 8th is Open Education Week, a global celebration of the open education (OE) movement and open educational resources (OER).  What is OER? Simply put, instructors design open educational resources to be used free of charge for teaching and learning. OER content is growing quickly, ...

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Perks of open access publishing

The standard process of academic publishing is pretty predictable: the researcher develops their idea and conducts a study, submits their article to their dream journal, gets rejected, makes edits and incorporates feedback to their article, and sends it to the next journal until someone says yes– an...

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How to avoid using retracted articles

Knowledge changes. It’s one of the many truths of research. Sometimes what we know is updated as new information becomes available. Other times, sadly, we discover something was never the truth. Various reasons result in retractions. Research with faked or manipulated data may be called out. Resear...

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Open Education Week 2023

by Abbie Thacher, Open Scholarship Intern Open Education Week highlights the creative and collaborative work of educators and promotes the world wide movement towards more equitable and accessible educational resources. Let’s start with some helpful definitions and then we will highlight some #OEW...

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Publishing Open Access

by Jordan Claire, Scholarly Communication Intern During International Open Access Week, we are connecting you with information that supports open access publication endeavors. There are many reasons why making your publications open access can benefit your research. By contributing to your field’s ...

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Government Information: An Overlooked Gem

CJ Garcia, Scholarly Communication Intern Handy, Levin C, photographer. Construction of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Washington D.C. United States, 1894. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2007664064/. Government inf...