Online Resources for Astronomy Education and Outreach

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S367) ◽  
pp. 105-115
Author(s):  
Chris Impey
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Instructional Tools ◽  
Astronomy Education ◽  
Concept Inventories ◽  
Education And Outreach ◽  
Public Audience

AbstractThe growth of the Internet has facilitated the easy availability of resources for teaching astronomy and doing astronomy outreach. This overview concentrates on resources that are free or open access. Basic teaching materials like textbooks and lab activities can be found, along with higher level items such as concept inventories and interactive instructional tools. There is also a small but growing research literature on astronomy instruction to be found online. Astronomers engaged in outreach can have access to large image collections, tools for doing citizen science, and planetarium apps. These resources are of enormous value to both novice and seasoned instructors, and anyone conveying the excitement of astronomy to a public audience.

scholarly journals How A Citizen Scientist Can Reuse & Link Biodiversity Heritage Library Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e25298
Author(s):  
Siobhan Leachman
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Biodiversity Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
Citizen Scientist ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Internet Search Engine ◽  
Effective Dissemination ◽  
Biodiversity Information

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) provides open access to over 54 million pages of biodiversity literature. Much of this literature is either in the public domain or is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons framework. Anyone can therefore freely reuse much of the information and data provided by BHL. This presentation will outline how the work of a citizen scientist using BHL content might benefit research scientists. It will discuss how a citizen scientist can reuse and link BHL literature and data in Wikipedia and Wikidata. It will explain the research efficiencies that can be obtained through this reuse and linking, for example through the consolidation of database identifiers. The presentation will outline the subsequent reuse of the BHL data added to Wikipedia and Wikidata by the internet search engine Google. It will discuss an example of the linking of this information in the citizen science observation platform iNaturalist. The presentation will explain how BHL, as a result of its open reuse licensing of information and data, helps in the creation of more accurate citizen science generated biodiversity data and assists with the wider and more effective dissemination of biodiversity information.

New Tools, Gadgets, and Devices in Libraries

2020 ◽  
pp. 238-257
Author(s):  
Kayode Wale Adewuyi
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Information Revolution ◽  
Future Cost ◽  
Personal Computing ◽  
Different Types ◽  
New Energy

The internet explosions, proliferation of online resources, and the advent of free and open access resources in the last two decades provided the much-needed impetus for libraries to inject new energy into providing quality delivery of its services. More and more applications and databases are being provided to the libraries as mobile products. This chapter summarizes, to some extent and expatiate to a large extent, the various new tools, devices, and gadgets operational and adaptable to various aspects of librarianship. After an exploration of how these devices and tools work, and the different types, the author provided a comparison of current popular products, followed by a look at some of the new tools, gadgets and devices that we have available (to and around us). With the awareness that we are in the midst of an ongoing information revolution, the internet and personal computing have tremendous potential to transform library services. All tools, devices, and gadgets will be analyzed with an eye towards the future, cost-effectiveness, performance, and functionality.

New Tools, Gadgets, and Devices in Libraries

2021 ◽  
pp. 624-643
Author(s):  
Kayode Wale Adewuyi
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Information Revolution ◽  
Future Cost ◽  
Personal Computing ◽  
Different Types ◽  
New Energy

The internet explosions, proliferation of online resources, and the advent of free and open access resources in the last two decades provided the much-needed impetus for libraries to inject new energy into providing quality delivery of its services. More and more applications and databases are being provided to the libraries as mobile products. This chapter summarizes, to some extent and expatiate to a large extent, the various new tools, devices, and gadgets operational and adaptable to various aspects of librarianship. After an exploration of how these devices and tools work, and the different types, the author provided a comparison of current popular products, followed by a look at some of the new tools, gadgets and devices that we have available (to and around us). With the awareness that we are in the midst of an ongoing information revolution, the internet and personal computing have tremendous potential to transform library services. All tools, devices, and gadgets will be analyzed with an eye towards the future, cost-effectiveness, performance, and functionality.

THE STATE OF OPEN ACCESS ADOPTION IN LEGAL SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION: AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Solomon Bopape
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Open Access Resources ◽  
The Right

The study of law focuses, among other aspects, on important issues relating to equality, fairness and justice in as far as free access to information and knowledgeis concerned. The launching of the Open Access to Law Movement in 1992, the promulgation of the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarshipin 2009, and the formation of national and regional Legal Information Institutes (LIIs) should serve as an indication of how well the legal world is committed to freely publishing and distributing legal information and knowledge through the Internet to legal practitioners, legal scholars and the public at large aroundthe world. In order to establish the amount of legal scholarly content which is accessible through open access publishing innovations and initiatives, this studyanalysed the contents of websites for selected open access resources on the Internet internationally and in South Africa. The results of the study showed that there has been a steady developing trend towards the adoption of open access for legal scholarly literature internationally, while in South Africa legal scholarly literature is under the control of commercial publishers. This should be an issue for the legal scholarship which, among its focus, is to impart knowledge about the right of access to information and knowledge.

scholarly journals Lessons Learned from Creating a Balanced Corpus from Online Data

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberts Darģis ◽  
Kristīne Levāne-Petrova ◽  
Ilmārs Poikāns
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Text Extraction ◽  
Technical Challenges ◽  
Online Sources

This paper describes lessons learned from developing the most recent Balanced Corpus of Modern Latvian (LVK2018) from various online sources. Most of the new corpora are created from data obtained from various text holders, which requires cooperation agreements with each of the text holders. Reaching these cooperation agreements is a difficult and time consuming task and may not be necessary if the resource to be created is not of hundred millions of size. Although there are many different resources available on the Internet today for a particular language, finding viable online resources to create a balanced corpus is still a challenging task. Developing a balanced corpus from various online sources does not require agreements with text holders, but it presents many more technical challenges, including text extraction, cleaning and validation.

scholarly journals Task selection, task switching and multitasking during computer-based independent study

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Judd
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Task Switching ◽  
Management System ◽  
Independent Study ◽  
Selection Task ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Computer Laboratory ◽  
Task Duration ◽  
Chronological Sequence ◽  
Computer Based

<p>Detailed logs of students’ computer use, during independent study sessions, were captured in an open-access computer laboratory. Each log consisted of a chronological sequence of tasks representing either the application or the Internet domain displayed in the workstation’s active window. Each task was classified using a three-tier schema according to its likely context of use: The top-level categories being <em>Academic</em>, <em>Communication</em>, <em>Information</em>, <em>Recreation</em> and <em>Applications</em>. Students switched tasks frequently – median task duration was only 31 seconds. Approximately 30% of all tasks were <em>Academic</em> with the majority of these involving the university’s learning management system. <em>Communication</em> and <em>Recreation</em> tasks accounted for 18% and 9% of tasks respectively. Up to one half of all tasks were not related to study. Multitasking was very common during independent study sessions, particularly when <em>Communication</em> tasks were active. This study confirms that students are likely to regularly switch tasks, attend to distracting tasks, and multitask during independent study. Each one of these behaviours has the potential to negatively impact on students’ learning, and when combined they indicate that students are relatively inefficient at managing competing tasks and their time when studying.</p>

scholarly journals Who’s writing Open Access (OA) articles? Characteristics of OA authors at Ph.D. granting institutions in the USA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Olejniczak ◽  
Molly J. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Career Stage ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
Federal Research ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Prestigious Institution ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Article Processing Charges

The open access (OA) publication movement aims to present research literature to the public at no cost and with no restrictions. While the democratization of access to scholarly literature is a primary focus of the movement, it remains unclear whether OA has uniformly democratized the corpus of freely available research, or whether authors who choose to publish in OA venues represent a particular subset of scholars - those with access to resources enabling them to afford article processing charges (APCs). We investigated the number of OA articles with article processing charges (APC OA) authored by 182,320 scholars with known demographic and institutional characteristics at American research universities across 11 broad fields of study. Results show, in general, that the likelihood for a scholar to author an APC OA article increases with male gender, employment at a prestigious institution (AAU member universities), association with a STEM discipline, greater federal research funding, and more advanced career stage (i.e., higher professorial rank). Participation in APC OA publishing appears to be skewed toward scholars with greater access to resources and job security.

scholarly journals NAROS: Northern Areas Open Scholarly Documents

Nordlit ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leif Longva
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Northern Areas ◽  
Search Service ◽  
Open Archives ◽  
The Way

A living discourse needs to be communicated and disseminated. The Internet is a very powerful tool in this respect. Internet has been around for a while now, but how to utilize the Internet as a communication and dissemination tool, is still evolving (Tananbaum, 2007).NAROS is a planned service. The intention of NAROS is to utilize the possibilities of the Internet to improve the awareness and the accessibility of scholarly works on topics related to northern areas, thus hopefully paving the way for expanding the arctic discourses. NAROS will collect information on applicable documents through a standard way of automatically harvesting metadata, and utilize the fast growing trend of making scholarly works available through open archives and open access journals. Through the search service of NAROS, researchers, students, and others will have easy access to scholarly documents within the thematic scope of the northern areas.

Open Access and the Society for Libyan Studies

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 107-112
Author(s):  
Philip Kenrick
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Uk Government

AbstractUK government policy is firmly directed, through the agencies which control university and research funding, towards a situation in which much academic output will be made accessible to all on the Internet without payment. This has far-reaching consequences for all academic publishers, including the Society, by no means all of which have yet been taken into account by the policy-makers. Members of the Society need to understand the issues and to consider how best to adapt to changing circumstances and to defend its position where necessary.

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