Join us!
Email Jennifer Jordan to be included in the next meeting invite (jschall1@unm.edu).
Mission Statement
The Open Access SIG will champion issues of open access in the state of New Mexico.
Definition of Open Access
Free and openly available curated scholarly or professional content published or housed on the Internet.
-Adapted from the American Library Association.
Our values
Open access removes the barriers caused by subscription and licensing fees in order to promote scholarly growth. OA scholarly literature is free of charge and often carries less restrictive copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally published works, for both the users and the authors. The open access movement is transforming the traditional model of scholarly publishing and challenging established norms for the access, sharing, and re-purposing of knowledge.
While OA is a newer form of scholarly publishing, many OA journals comply with well-established peer-review processes and maintain high publishing standards. For more information, see Peter Suber’s overview of Open Access.
OA Resources from New Mexico
- ENMU OER Library Guide
- New Mexico’s Digital Collections
- New Mexico Public Education Department’s OER Commons Site
- New Mexico Open Educational Resources Consortium (NMOER) Pressbooks’ Site
- NMSU Digital Collections
- OER Certificate Course from NMOER
- OER Adopt! Adapt! Create! Guide – myText CNM
- OER Repositories – myText CNM
- UNM’s Digital Repository
- Where to find OERs UNM Libguide
Participate
Choose us when you become an NMLA member or renew your membership.
- From nmla.org, click on the Membership tab.
- Click the “Log In” button in the upper right hand of the screen
- Enter your email and password.
- Click on your name at the top right hand of the screen. This will bring you to your profile.
- Click the “Edit Profile” button.
- Scroll down to Group Participation and select the SIGs you are interested in joining.
- Then click the Save button at the top of your profile. This will save your SIGs to your profile and appear in the Membership Directory. The chair of the SIG will be able to pull your contact information from this list.
- You can also send an email to the SIG chair (Jennifer Jordan, jschall1@unm.edu) to let them know of your interest.
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