Open access and open educational resources have become more and more popular in the area of academic and scholarly settings.
The WVU Research Commons has put together a series of workshops to provide faculty and students training in publishing in open access resources and using open educational resources in the classroom.
Copyright Permission: Who Can Grant it and How to Ask
Join us for a workshop on copyright.
Register for this workshop scheduled for 2-3 p.m. Thursday (Oct. 20)
Locating Journals to Publish Educational Topics
Explore journal rankings in Web of Science and explore publishing opportunities in open access journals.
Register for this workshop scheduled for 4-5 p.m. Thursday (Oct. 20)
Open Access Primer
Get up to speed with the open access movement in this one-hour workshop. We will also demonstrate tools and services that make open access work for scholars such as Unpaywall, the Open Access Button, SHERPA/RoMEO and more.
Register for this workshop scheduled for 10-11 a.m. Monday (Oct. 24)
Introduction to Open Education
Attend this introductory workshop to learn more about open education and its associated practices that can provide you with more strategies and approaches to remove barriers to student learning. This workshop will use a social justice lens approach to open education.
Register for this Monday workshop scheduled for 1-2 p.m. (Oct. 24)
Finding Open Educational Resources
Amidst efforts to lower the expenses of higher education, open educational resources are a set of no-cost open access learning tools in various formats used by instructors to augment student learning. Learn how to locate and evaluate OER for use in your courses.
Register for this workshop scheduled for 10-11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25
Register for this workshop scheduled for 1-2:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27
The Public Domain and Other Important Exemptions to Copyright
This workshop is designed to help answer questions related to the public domain.
Register for this workshop scheduled for 3-4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7