Benefits of Open Access Publishing for students in higher education

Becker, Peter and Helvoort, Jos van (2007) Benefits of Open Access Publishing for students in higher education. In Proceedings EADI IMWG Conference 2007, The Hague (The Netherdelands).

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Abstract

Most students in higher education have some experience with Open Access when doing their deskresearch. They appreciate the free access of scholar publications on the World Wide Web. But students in higher education also develop their competences as junior researchers and publishers. Can Open Access Publishing help them to get some reputation in the international academic society? And how appreciate they the readers’ feedback on papers published on the internet?
The Millennium Generation has grown up with free accessible information. They are supposed to embrace the idea of Open Access Publishing. However, students also may be anxious for publishing (preprints of) their papers, for instance for copyright reasons. It seems that good communication about the possibilities of Open Access Publishing by their educators (tutors, professors and librarians!) is very important.

Keywords:	Open Access Publishing ; Higher Education ; Student attitudes
Subjects:	G. Industry, profession and education. > GH. Education. E. Publishing and legal issues. B. Information use and sociology of information.
ID Code:	11421
Deposited By:	Helvoort, Jos van
Deposited On:	04 October 2007
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