Here are a couple of ways Antioch is supporting open access:

• ANE’s Environmental Studies doctoral candidates deposit their dissertations in the OhioLINK ETD (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) Center, an open access repository, as do doctoral candidates in Antioch’s PhD in Leadership and Change program.
• Dr. Carolyn Kenny, a faculty member in Antioch’s PhD in Leadership and Change program, is co-editor-in-chief of Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, an open access journal.
• ANE faculty members, such as Jim Gruber, submit articles to open access journals.

Jim sporting his new OA t-shirt.

And here are some other actions Antioch could be taking:

• Antioch’s leadership could commit resources to developing an institutional repository, similar to the one at The Ohio State University, its Knowledge Bank.
• Faculty could pass a resolution, similar to ones passed by faculty at Harvard, MIT, and many other universities, requiring researchers to deposit articles and other work in an open access repository.

That’s a start. Let’s get going!

Open access journal publishing is one way that scholarship and research can be made available to the worldwide community, and a good place to find OA journals is the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Here are some examples from browsing the DOAJ subject lists:

• Under psychology in social sciences: Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Annual Review of Critical Psychology, Current Research in Social Psychology, Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review.
• Under ecology in earth and environmental sciences: Avian Conservation and Ecology, Ethnobotany Research and Applications, Urban Habitats, Green Theory and Praxis, Conservation Evidence.
• For organization and management (business and economics in DOAJ): International Journal of Business and Management; Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy; Information Technologies & International Development.
• And education journals (listed under social sciences): Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, Early Childhood Research & Practice, Educause Quarterly, Innovate: Journal of Online Education.

Most OA journals are peer reviewed, and journals from DOAJ are included on the ANE Journals A-Z list.

You can also search DOAJ for articles rather than browsing journals. Look for the Find Articles link in the upper left of the homepage.

Have you read an OA journal today?

SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has produced a great animated video, Open Access 101 (~3 minutes), explaining the scholarly information landscape and why we need open access:

And be sure to check out A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access (PDF), which explains two ways the research community provides open access, through OA journals (more on those tomorrow) and OA archives or repositories.

I think many folks at ANE would agree with the premise of the video below–especially our solid waste coordinator and vermicomposter extraordinaire, Jess Skinner.

Kudos to Dr. Christine Frick, 2007 Clinical Psychology alumna, who is featured in this Veterans Administration video on the benefits of telehealth:

Celebrating its 20th year, the Goldman Environmental Prize has announced the 2009 winners, selected for their grassroots activism in “protecting endangered ecosystems and species, combating destructive development projects, promoting sustainability, influencing environmental policies and striving for environmental justice. Prize winners are often women and men from isolated villages or inner cities who chose to take great personal risks to safeguard the environment.”

This year’s winners are:

• Marc Ona Essangui, Gabon
• Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Bangladesh
• Olga Speranskaya, Moscow, Russia
• Yuyun Ismawati, Indonesia
• Maria Gunnoe, West Virginia, United States
• Wanze Eduards and S. Hugo Jabini, Suriname

The New York Times Magazine has published their 2009 green issue. Articles include, “Why Isn’t the Brain Green?” and “Natural Happiness.”

The New York Times requires free registration/login. If you’d like an alternative to this and you use FireFox for your browser, consider installing the BugMeNot add-on. BugMeNot allows you to right-click in the login box for the New York Times (or any other free registration/logins) and choose “Login with BugMeNot” automatically inserting logins submitted by other users.

This American Life has produced two illuminating radio programs about the economic crisis. They explain in clearly and humorously (well, with as much humor as is possible give the disaster we’re experiencing) the collapse of the housing market and the crisis in the banking sector.

You’ve probably seen the earlier version of this video. The updated 2008 version (5 minutes long) is below. The information presented is mind boggling. Do you have an answer for the question posed at the end?

Worth the 2 minutes 39 seconds to watch this very funny video.

Medieval Helpdesk with English Subtitles