Open Access and Institutional Repositories
One can only perceive this lecture to have been a very academic one, if one is to compare it to the previous lectures on Social Media.
It was like getting down to the serious side of ICT applications but a very relevant and useful side.
Open access should become the norm for sharing knowledge in order to empower other students, researchers or academics. The gold road would be the way to go to ensure the information is made available freely to all. As mentioned by Jill Claasen, by doing this, publications gain greater exposure and the readership of them is broader. A continent like Africa can only benefit from Open Access. With this sharing of knowledge and research, it can only have a positive impact in the academic environment.
This website provides a good overview of the concept of Open Access:
This website contains information about Open Access which was compiled by Peter Suber who is a Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College. As he states he also wear many other hats and one of them is being the Director of Harvard Open Access Project.
Institutional Repositories
This can only have a positive impact in academic environments, knowing that that the legacy of the institutions academics can live on to certain extent. What is also positive about it is that different forms material can be retained in repositories, such as audio and visual clips, images, conference papers and many other forms. The result is that the university's research gains more exposure which results in better usage.
There is an interesting article on the Information Today website dealing with Institutional Repositories;
In both instances there are always concerns about copyright but there are procedures in place to ensure the creator remains the owner of the work.
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