New e-reference book

We now have access to 21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook. This reference e-book "...offers 100 chapters written by leading experts in the field that highlight the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates facing educators today" (from the Sage website). You can access the item through the Library catalogue.

Open Access Week

What is Open Access?

Open Access is the principle that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication. Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the copyright-holder.

Why does Open Access matter?

Open Access encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement of knowledge and benefit to society.

For more information:

• What Faculty can do to promote Open Access
• What Universities and Administrators can do to promote Open Access
• What Research Funders can do to promote Open Access

--from http://www.library.brocku.ca/openaccess.htm