Workshop proposal for the JTEL & EMMA Summer School 2015 “OPEN Minds”: another way to access knowledge & share your ideas A proposal for an interactive and collaborative learning activity for early- to mid-stage PhD candidates and for young researchers. Nowadays everyone has unprecedented access to online resources and materials from all over the world. Finding good online resources and most importantly “open” access resources though is not easy. This remains a big challenge for every PhD student and generally for every researcher. Knowing where to search and how to find, for example, high quality open access journals needs effort and strategy. Furthermore, sharing research to “high quality” open access repositories needs also caution, planning and good knowledge of copyright issues. Young researchers and PhD students have also enormous possibilities of networking and sharing research (i.e. Academia) as well as the possibility to access a big variety of online open courses of large scale (Massive Online Open Courses, MOOCs) that could support their work such as basic lessons of “qualitative research methods”. Besides that, there are open access spaces of collaboration where PhD students can peer-review their unpublished research work (e.g. Prolearn Website/mediabase) as well open access databases where they can upload their PhD (e.g TEL Map Confolio). But how easy is for PhD students and for young researchers to take advantage of all the “open access” possibilities? Which are the challenges and what are the risks?

1. Open Minds: Another way to access Knowledge and
share your ideas
Maria Perifanou
Stylianos Mystakidis

2. What is open access?
“Open means that anyone can freely access, use,
modify, and share for any purpose (subject, at most,
to requirements that preserve provenance and
openness).” Opendefinition.org

3. Why open access?
Enhance visibility & impact of research
 Speeds up publication process
Allows others to build on your work
Research paid by public funds => innovation,
prestige, funding

4. How to provide open access?
"Green" OA: Self-archiving Author archives an
electronic copy of a peer-reviewed publication
in an institutional or subject repository.
 "Gold” OA: Open access publishing Authors
publish their scholarship in open access
journals or monograph series.
Best practice: always self-archive an OA
version of your work, regardless if & where
you publish.

5. Where & how to search for open access
material for your PhD research?
http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en

6. http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/elearning_papers

9. Hands on session
Preparation
Individual work
Group work

10. Let’s work together _ gdoc
Getting prepared: Check our Twitter channel
#jtelss15 to access the open minds gdoc
Step 1:
 Please add your information to the gdocs
 Form groups of 3-4 people

11. Let’s work together _ gdoc
Step 2: Individual Work
a. Create your account (or login) in the Open
Education Europa portal (OEE) here
http://openeducationeuropa.eu/el/user/register

12. b. Join the JTEL Summer School Group in OEE
http://openeducationeuropa.eu/el/groups/jtel-
federica-and-emma-summer-school-2015
Let’s work together _ gdoc

13. Let’s work together _ gdoc
Check the Twitter channel #jtelss15 to access the
open minds gdoc
Step 3: Group work A
 Q1. Where can a researcher locate open access
material/resources e.g. for a Phd literature
review???

14. Example: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
https://doaj.org/
Let’s work together _ gdoc

15. Let’s work together _ gdoc
Check the Twitter channel #jtelss15 to access the
open minds gdoc
Step 3: Group work B
 Q2. How to share your research "safely" to
open access databases? Do you know how to
protect your research work?

16. Let’s work together _ gdoc
Check the Twitter channel #jtelss15 to access the
open minds gdoc
Step 3: Group work C
 Q3. What open access collaborative spaces
do/can you use to co-author research articles,
research proposals etc.??

17. https://www.facebook.com/groups/EdDigEraCo
nference/

18. Thank you all!
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Maria Perifanou
mariaperif@gmail.com
Stylianos Mystakidis
stylianosm@gmail.com

19. Table 1: Personalized Public Profile of Researchers in Academic
Social Networking Sites Website Functionalities
Academica.edu Academic social networking;
Public profile listing research
publications, research
projects, research positions and
training;
Self-archiving published un-published
and forthcoming publications.
CiteULike.org Online reference
manager;
Public sharing of publications within a
researchers’ group.
Getcited.org Academic social
networking;
Self-archiving published un-published
and forthcoming publications.
Google Scholar Citations
Citations tracking;
Online reference manager.
ImpactStory.org; Citations tracking
Public profile listing research
publications and research
presentations
Article level metrics of your
publications.
Linkedin.com Professional social networking;
Public profile listing research
publications, research
projects, research positions and
training.
ORCID.org Authors’ registry with unique
identifiers;
Public profile listing research
publications.
ResearcherID.com Authors’ registry
with unique identifiers;
Public profile listing research
publications.
Mendeley.com Online reference manager;

20. Table 2: Author’s Tools for Identifying Self-Archiving Avenues
Author’s Tool Functionalities Directory of Open Access Repositories
OpenDOAR.org Identifying OA repositories in your
subject disciplines and from your
region or country.
Registry of Open Access Repositories
(ROAR.eprints.org) - Identifying OA repositories in your
subject disciplines and from your
region or country.
Directory of Open Access Scholarly
Resources
(ROAD.issn.org)
Availability of different types of OA
scholarly resources: peer reviewed
journals, conferences proceedings,
academic repositories and
monographic series in all subject fields.
- A single access point to different
types of online scholarly resources
published worldwide and freely
available, identified or authenticated
through ISSN Register.
OAIster.worldcat.org -Searching OA contents archived in OA
knowledge repositories and
institutional repositories.
- Identifying OA repositories in your
subject disciplines and from your
region or country.
Ranking Web of Repositories
(Repositories.webometrics.info) -Identifying top ranking OA
repositories within a region or
worldwide.
- Identifying OA repositories in your
subject disciplines and from your
region or country.
SHERPA/JULIET
(Sherpa.ac.uk/Juliet) - Identifying research funders' open
access policies.

21. Where & how to search for open access
material for your PhD research (2)?
https://www.openaire.eu/
http://crln.acrl.org/content/76/6/306.full