scholarly journals Promoting a culture of openness: Institutional open access policy development and evaluation at a Canadian university

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Alison J. Moore ◽  
Jennifer Zerkee ◽  
Kate Shuttleworth ◽  
Rebecca Dowson ◽  
Gwen Bird
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Access Policy ◽  
Post Secondary Institution ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
Simon Fraser University ◽  
Soar Strengths

Institutional open access (OA) policies can act as a solid foundation on which to build university-wide support for open access. This is the first paper to reflect on the entire process of developing, implementing, and reviewing an institutional open access policy at a Canadian post-secondary institution. Simon Fraser University (SFU) is one of a few Canadian universities with an institutional open access policy. As a leader in open access, SFU is well positioned to share observations of our experiences in the first three years of our OA policy. Throughout this paper, we reflect on the role that the policy plays in the broader culture of openness at SFU and on the OA resources and supports provided to SFU researchers. Other institutions may find our observations and adoption of the SOAR (strengths, opportunities, aspirations, results) appreciative inquiry framework useful as they explore future policy development or review and work to promote a culture of open access within their university community. 

scholarly journals Open access policy guidelines by the MedOANet project: Facilitating open access policy development in Mediterranean Europe

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandros Nafpliotis ◽  
Victoria Tsoukala ◽  
Vasso Kalatizi
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
National Level ◽  
Access Network ◽  
Early Spring ◽  
Access Policy ◽  
Task Forces ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Access Policies

See video of the presentation.Toward the end of the two-year EC-funded project Mediterranean Open Access Network (MedOANet; www.medoanet.eu) this presentation offers a summary of its activities and specifically focuses on the culminating outcome of the project,  the guidelines for policy development, directed to research performing organizations and research funders in six countries: Greece, Italy, Turkey, France, Spain and Portugal. The guidelines are to be released in English in all six languages of the project partners in September 2013.Purpose of the project is to support and strengthen coordinated policy development among funders and research organizations of the six countries (www.medoanet.eu). For two years the project has enabled open access policy developments through activities at the national level, such as the development of task forces and national conferences that brought together major stakeholders and policymakers, as well as regional developments through a European workshop in Braga, Portugal in early spring 2013. The project has, further, mapped the open access policy situation in the six countries, the results of which are to be published in the early fall 2013. Three surveys carried in six countries among research funders, research performing organizations and publishers demonstrate that the momentum towards open access requires specific policy actions to actually render publicly funded research openly accessible to all.The guidelines under preparation by the project discuss the key principles and processes to be followed by funding and research performing organizations in establishing open access policies, highlighting the most important steps necessary in defining and implementing effective policies. Significantly, they also offer model policies for research funders and research performing organizations. The model policies have been elaborated on the basis of current models and recent relevant developments, and emphasize mandatory green open access. The proposed presentation will discuss their components in detail. The effect of the guidelines and model policies are eagerly awaited and already expected to be significant as a number of institutions in Greece and other countries are discussing adopting them together.

scholarly journals Beyond Face Value: A Policy Analysis of Employment Equity Programs and Reporting in Ontario Public Colleges

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-185
Author(s):  
Shani Kipang ◽  
Daniyal Zuberi
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Public Colleges ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Organizational Policy ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Secondary System ◽  
Employment Equity ◽  
Faculty Diversity ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Post Secondary

Given their unique pedagogical mandate and structure, Canadian public colleges play a central role in serving groups traditionally under-represented in the post-secondary system. Yet as enrolment from these groups continues to rise, it is unclear to what extent the diversity of student bodies is reflected among faculty. In fact, while issues of faculty diversity and employment equity have gained increasing attention within Canadian universities, they have been largely overlooked within colleges. In an effort to address this gap, we have reviewed the employment equity related policies of Ontario’s five largest publicly funded colleges (otherwise known as Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology, or OCAATs). With a focus on personnel data collection and recruitment—two policy areas we will argue are particularly underdeveloped in the sector—this paper provides recommendations for future research and priorities for organizational policy development.

scholarly journals Implementing a First-Year Experience Curriculum in a Large Lecture Course: Opportunities, Challenges and Myths

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-89
Author(s):  
Daniel Ahadi ◽  
Jennesia Pedri ◽  
L. Dugan Nichols
Keyword(s):  
First Year Experience ◽  
First Year ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Instrumental Approach ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Post Secondary Institution ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Simon Fraser University

This article documents the design, delivery, and evaluation of a first-year experience (FYE) course in media and communication studies. It was decided that CMNS 110: Introduction to Communication Studies would start to include elements to address a perceived and documented sense of disconnectedness among first-year students in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. These elements included coping, learning, and writing workshops facilitated by various services units across campus. We present results from surveys and focus groups conducted with students at the end of the course and discuss the predicaments that the new realities of an accreditation and audit paradigm—under the cloak of the neoliberal university—produce. On one hand the FYE course may help students transition into a post-secondary institution; on the other hand, too much emphasis on the FYE can result in an instrumental approach to education, jeopardizing the integrity of the course. We offer some insights into the challenges and opportunities of implementing FYE curricula within a large classroom setting.

scholarly journals A University Math Help Centre as a Support Framework for Students, the Instructor, the Course, and the Department

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-106
Author(s):  
Petra Menz ◽  
◽  
Veselin Jungic ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Learning Support ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Manpower Resource ◽  
Post Secondary Institution ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Simon Fraser University ◽  
Time Ease

Among many challenges a math department at a post-secondary institution will most likely be faced with the optimization problem of how best to offer out-of-lecture learning support to several thousand firstand second-year university students enrolled in large math service courses within given spatial, scheduling, financial, technological, and manpower resource constraints, and at the same time ease the administrative work of the instructor. This article describes how math workshops, essentially math help centres, are set up in the Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University so that they provide the administrative and learning support structure for the students, the instructor, the course, and the department. The roles and responsibilities of the workshop coordinator, instructors, teaching assistants, and students are outlined along with a discussion of the challenges and benefits of this support framework.

scholarly journals Implementing a First-Year Experience Curriculum in a Large Lecture Course: Opportunities, Challenges and Myths

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-89
Author(s):  
Daniel Ahadi ◽  
Jennesia Pedri ◽  
L. Dugan Nichols
Keyword(s):  
First Year Experience ◽  
First Year ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Instrumental Approach ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Post Secondary Institution ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Simon Fraser University

This article documents the design, delivery, and evaluation of a first-year experience (FYE) course in media and communication studies. It was decided that CMNS 110: Introduction to Communication Studies would start to include elements to address a perceived and documented sense of disconnectedness among first-year students in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. These elements included coping, learning, and writing workshops facilitated by various services units across campus. We present results fromsurveys and focus groups conducted with students at the end of the course and discuss the predicaments that the new realities of an accreditation and audit paradigm—under the cloak of the neoliberal university—produce. On one hand the FYE course may help students transition into a post-secondary institution; on the other hand, too much emphasis on the FYE can result in an instrumental approach to education, jeopardizing the integrity of the course. We offer some insights into the challenges and opportunities of implementing FYE curricula within a large classroom setting.

scholarly journals Beyond Face Value: A Policy Analysis of Employment Equity Programs and Reporting in Ontario Public Colleges

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-185
Author(s):  
Shani Kipang ◽  
Daniyal Zuberi
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Public Colleges ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Organizational Policy ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Secondary System ◽  
Employment Equity ◽  
Faculty Diversity ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Post Secondary

Given their unique pedagogical mandate and structure, Canadian public colleges play a central role in serving groups traditionally under-represented in the post-secondary system. Yet as enrolment from these groups continues to rise, it is unclear to what extent the diversity of student bodies is reflected among faculty. In fact, while issues of faculty diversity and employment equity have gained increasing attention within Canadian universities, they have been largely overlooked within colleges. In an effort to address this gap, we have reviewed the employment equity related policies of Ontario’s five largest publicly funded colleges (otherwise known as Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology, or OCAATs). With a focus on personnel data collection and recruitment—two policy areas we will argue are particularly underdeveloped in the sector—this paper provides recommendations for future research and priorities for organizational policy development.  

scholarly journals Harvard adopts opt-out open-access policy

Nature ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 451 (7181) ◽  
pp. 879-879
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Access Policy ◽  
Opt Out

scholarly journals The ASJ Open Access Policy

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. 1274-1274 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Nahai
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Access Policy

Dynamics of grazing rights and their impact on mobile cattle herders in Bhutan

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuenga Namgay ◽  
Joanne E. Millar ◽  
Rosemary S. Black
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Socioeconomic Impacts ◽  
Land Use Policies ◽  
Land Holdings ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
Downstream Communities ◽  
The Impact

Seasonal cattle movements have been an important part of the living cultural heritage in Bhutan for centuries. Herders migrate south every winter to graze their cattle on subtropical pastures and to work in orange orchards. They return north to their villages in spring to grow summer crops. However, the practice of transhumant agropastoralism is under increasing pressure on account of changes in land-use policies, climate change and a declining labour force as youth seek alternative livelihoods. This research investigated the impact of changes in land-use policy, with emphasis on the Land Act 2007, on current and future livelihoods of transhumant herders in Bhutan. During in-depth interviews with 24 transhumant herders and nine livestock advisors, and seven focus-group discussions with 64 participants including herders, downstream residents and development agency personnel, perspectives on this issue were gathered. Findings revealed a lack of herder awareness of changes in land-use policies and minimal consultation of herders during policy development. Confusion and uncertainty about the proposed redistribution of grazing rights and restrictions on herd movements have resulted in confusion and resentment and have created conflicts between upstream and downstream communities. Herders with no current alternatives are concerned about their future livelihoods, whereas others are leaving it to their children to decide their future. It is concluded that the motive behind nationalisation of rangeland is noble and timely, but there are flaws in the redistribution plan. Transhumant agropastoralism is already in decline and there is no need to push towards its end through legislation. Transhumant practices could be left to evolve towards what may be their natural end. Sudden stoppage of inter-district transhumance without offering meaningful alternatives to herders could result in negative environmental and socioeconomic impacts. In future, policy development needs to increasingly embrace science and be based on evidence. A genuine participatory process with citizen engagement could avoid the unintended negative impacts likely to be faced by transhumant herders with marginal land holdings, who depend on this production system for their livelihoods.

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