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John Canning, LLAS Centre, University of Southampton and owner of YazikOpen

No open learning without open access: a portal for open access research into teaching modern languages. John Canning, LLAS Centre, University of Southampton and owner of YazikOpen E-learning symposium, 24-25 th January Slide download : http ://humbox.ac.uk/4018/.

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John Canning, LLAS Centre, University of Southampton and owner of YazikOpen

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  1. No open learning without open access: a portal for open access research into teaching modern languages John Canning, LLAS Centre, University of Southampton and owner of YazikOpen E-learning symposium, 24-25th January Slide download: http://humbox.ac.uk/4018/

  2. YazikOpen www.yazikopen.org.uk • Background (personal) • Open Access • Technical • Lessons learnt

  3. Background • Personal: LLAS subject centre. Went down to 4 days a week and wanted to learn more skills • Open access: Cross that my research is for public sale at c.$25 for 15 page article. • Lots of talk about MOOCs, OER, but what use if courses and teaching material, but research is not?

  4. Open access • International movement • Free, immediate, permanent online access to the full text of research articles for everyone, anywhere in the world. • Gold • Author pays funding • Green • Self-archiving of closed access work. • Diamond • Free to read, free to publish

  5. Who makes the money from journals?

  6. Finch report • Favoured Gold Open Access (authors pays) • Fees sometimes £1000+ • Problem for those without grants, poorer institutions , independent scholars. • ‘Solution’ to give more money to universities so publishers still make profits. • Many low quality and/or ‘predatory’ journals.

  7. YazikOpen.org.uk

  8. Funding= £0 • Part time ‘private project’. • Built in Drupal (www.drupal.org). Open source software + contributing modules, notably biblio) • Hosting by clook.net

  9. Issues • Needed to learn Drupal • Online support: drupal.org and other sites • Drupal for Dummies book. • Several false starts • Memory required • Did not always understand documentation with modules • Sometimes no documentation. • First host company I used very poor.

  10. Other issues • Time issues • Keeping content up to date • Occasional newsletters • Twitter/ Facebook accounts • Content in suitable formats • Financial • Community participation

  11. Other issues (2) • Keeping version up to date (security) • Multifaceted role • Web developer (technical, design and security) • Cataloguer • Social media • Financier

  12. Selected open access language teaching journals • Journal of Second Language Teaching & Research • Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics • English Language Teaching • The Journal of Language Teaching and Learning (JLTL) • SiSAL Journal: Studies in Self-Access Learning • Reading in a Foreign Language • German as a Foreign Language

  13. Future… ? • Sustainability: getting community involvement • Adding material • Comments • Keywording • Financial sustainability • Buy-in from publishers of open access journals

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