UCL Short Course Wrap-Up
During March 2015, Abby Clobridge from FireOak Strategies led a 5-day course, Introduction to Open Access and Open Knowledge, for a group of librarians, information science professionals, and library/information studies graduate students at UCL Qatar.
Course Overview
In recent years, Open Access has emerged as a viable model for disseminating knowledge. This course provided a hands-on introduction to Open Access and other types of open knowledge within the context of cultural heritage institutions—libraries, archives, and museums.
"Open knowledge" refers to content that is freely accessible and reusable, distributed via the internet in standards-compliant repositories using structured metadata. The course primarily focused on Open Access to research, with a brief introduction to other types of open content such as open data. Practical activities and exercises were included to help participants engage with the types of challenges professionals face when working with open knowledge.
Thanks to the excellent participants for the lively discussions, and to the team at UCL Qatar Library Science program for hosting and supporting the short course.
