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Open and Shut Case

The Riddle:When is a door not a door?

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The Metaphor: Peeling the Onion

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The Story: A long time ago, far away…..

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What is an open access (OA) journal?

Scholarly journals

• No price barriers (e.g. subscription, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees)

• No permission barriers (e.g. copyright and licensing restrictions)

• Freely available to the reader

Some OA journals are subsidized and are financed by an academic institution, learned society or a government information center. Others are financed by payment of article processing charges by submitting authors, money typically made available to researchers by their institution or funding agency.

Publishes every two months ~ 15 articles

8 special issues in the last 5 years

“Notes” sections – Field, leadership, tech, conference Book reviews

1200+ reviewers

OpenWe are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The copyright of all content published in IRRODL is retained by the authors. Content may be re-used, reprinted, or translated as long as it is attributed to the author(s) and to IRRODL.

Linked to the OER knowledge cloud

Several thousand hits a day

SSHRC-funded

Indexes = 14+

DOAJ Seal = compliance, “outstanding best practice”

Peeling onions

Open. Openness. Opening. Opened. In the context of postsecondary and tertiary education, each of these nuances or forms/degrees of “open”/”openness”/”opening”/”opened” can refer to admission requirements, registration periods, flexibility in choices, open pedagogy, curricula, professional development, curriculum resources, assessment practices, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and research.

The Case of the Third World Quarterly

Peer-review process brought to the fore

“We insist on some transparent form of peer review” (Briechner, publisher, Johns Hopkins University Press)

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“If an editor ignores the review process, he/she might as well be editing a blog” (Kennan Ferguson, editor, Theory and Event, political theory journal)

blog

bläɡ/

noun: blog; plural noun: blogs

1. a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style.

IRRODL Reviewers

1200+

automatically added to roster as authors

“open” process

international

Tension??

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However contradictory it sounds, ecologies of “open” do not only include, but also exclude.

We propose understanding “open” in education as existing in the nexus of political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal frameworks and agendas = contestation, incongruities and obstacles (P. Prinsloo)

Open/shut?

The Participation Trophy

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Thank you!

Ecologies of open: Inclusion, intersections, and interstices in education

Dianne Conrad

Paul Prinsloo

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