About the Book
The Open Scholarship Primer was developed from the Program for Open Scholarship and Education (POSE), a hybrid blended program offered in 2019-2025 at the University of British Columbia. The primer explores how open copyright licenses, collaborative practices, and networked technologies have the potential to lower barriers to knowledge by making the processes and products of scholarship more distributed, transparent, and accessible. The text offers a content on the full spectrum of open scholarly activities including, open access, open research, and open education. The text contains multimedia components and self-assessments to allow participants to asynchronously practice what they learn.
Structure
Each chapter is broken down into themes. For example, Open Access contains The Publication Ecosystem, Author Rights, and Pathways to Open. Each theme contains an introduction, sub-parts of that theme (e.g. The Publication Ecosystem – Academic Publishing Today), a conclusion.
In the sub-parts, you will find interactive components, including:
- Scenarios/Case Studies – The case studies/scenarios provide a detailed overview of a particular idea within a real-world context
- Dig Deeper – Includes additional resources for going into more depth on a topic.
- Test Your Knowledge – Interactive questions that help you think through what you have learned and apply it.
Each chapter also includes an activity page that culminates what you have learned in Open Access, Open Research, and Open Education. The activities include:
This Developing a Plan Activity section of the end of chapter activities is meant to provide with a place to reflect and organize some of the different ways open scholarship could be applied to your work. At the end of this activity, you can download your reflection to action it!
The Open Scholarship Primer Activity Bank are activities that you will complete as part of each chapter. The concept behind the activity bank is to learn by doing. Some activities will be more critical thinking and reflection prompts, while others will ask you to interact with specific open scholarship tools.
