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
The following resources were developed for New Mexico learners.
- 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
- Place-Based OER from New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU), the Institute for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Learning and Teaching (ICLRLT), and Technology Connected Communities (TCC)—NTIA Grant Project
- UNM’s Digital Repository
- Where to find OERs UNM Libguide
Resources for Public Libraries
The resources down below are openly licensed and developed for public librarians.
- Instruction and Pedagogy for Youth in Public Libraries from the University Library at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- The Make-It Place: Resources from Maryland Public Librarians
- Public User Services & Technology: a Primer for Librarians from the University of Iowa Libraries
- Public Library Quarterly an open access library journal for public libraries
- Digital Public Library of America
Public Domain Resources
Public domain resources are freely available on the web and have no copyright restrictions, either because they have fallen out of copyright or were dedicated to the public domain.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s collection of public domain images
- MIT Libraries in the Public Domain MIT University’s collection of books in the public domain
- NASA‘s copyright-free and accessible media library
- Public Domain Day from Duke University, formerly copyrighted works that have entered into the public domain
- Smithsonian Open Access digital media from the Smithsonian released as Creative Commons Zero
- Storyweaver is massive digital platform providing thousands of children’s storybooks under CC licenses
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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