Open Educational Resources: Learning Resource Center

“The book offers a concise guide for librarians, helping them understand the challenges, processes and technologies involved in managing access to online resources.”

The APA Style Citation Tutorial is created by staff at the University of Alberta Library to support students and faculty. The tutorial covers why it is important to use citations, elements of common source types, and how to create reference and in-text citations based on the 7th edition APA guidelines. This tutorial can also be used a reference resource.

“Describes a new librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning; and he suggests a new mission for librarians: to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities.”

“Choosing & Using Sources presents a process for academic research and writing, from formulating your research question to selecting good information and using it effectively in your research assignments.”

“This book addresses data information literacy (particularly the data management life cycle), emphasizing the role of librarians in its practice and instruction.”

“This collection brings together scholarship and pedagogy from multiple perspectives and disciplines, offering nuanced and complex perspectives on Information Literacy in the second decade of the 21st century.”

“Information Literacy Concepts is an openly accessible primer that introduces high school, community college, and college students to information literacy topics and gives them an overview of how to conduct their own research.”

“Good researchers have a host of tools at their disposal that make navigating today’s complex information ecosystem much more manageable. Gaining the knowledge, abilities, and self-reflection necessary to be a good researcher helps not only in academic settings, but is invaluable in any career, and throughout one’s life.”

“The Intangible Advantage: Understanding Intellectual Property in the New Economy is the first-ever text on intellectual property (IP) aimed at ordinary citizens, especially college students. As such, it is an important innovation in and of itself — one that hopefully will solve a big problem in American education.”

“This book is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marks…and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights.”

“This publication focuses on interoperability issues, resource description, perpetual access, importance of standards, and the integration of different products in building institutional repositories.”

“This publication defines scholarly communication and the various forms of open access, explains issues related to rights management (e.g. copyright, copy-left, authors' rights and related intellectual property rights), and discusses the impact of Open Access within a scholarly communication environment.”

“We're in an age of information overload, and too much of what we watch, hear and read is mistaken, deceitful or even dangerous. Yet you and I can take control and make media serve us -- all of us -- by being active consumers and participants.”

“We intend this book to act as a guide writ large for would-be champions of OER, that anyone—called to action by the example set by our chapter authors—might serve as guides themselves.”

“This publication deals with open access resources of all types, their definition, nature, features, planning, executing, choosing appropriate technical standards and following set procedures and later maintenance for all parties involved i.e. host, sponsors, users and prospective content creators.”

Introduction to intellectual property: what it is and why it matters, especially in the information age.

“This is an unabashedly practical guide for the student fact-checker. It supplements generic information literacy with the specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly…In other words, this guide will help you become “web literate” by showing you the unique opportunities and pitfalls of searching for truth on the web.”

“Less a research report than a conversation, the book offers a wide range of ideas, and the chapters here will provoke discussion on scholarly practice relating to intellectual property, plagiarism, and authorship---and to how these matters are conveyed to students.”

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