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Where Should We Take Open Access Next?: Moving Forward By Centering an Ethics of Care

Where Should We Take Open Access Next?: Moving Forward By Centering an Ethics of Care

By Amber Gallant on March 18, 2022 | Tagged with open academia, open access, open education

Where Should We Take Open Access Next?: Moving Forward By Centering an Ethics of Care Guest Post by Amber Gallant What is Open Access (OA)? In 2002, a small group of scholars met to discuss the unaffordability of scholarly publishing and explore alternate avenues to make research freely accessible. The declaration they drafted, the Budapest […]

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Sovereignty and Tradition: Indigenous Knowledge & Open Educational Resources

Sovereignty and Tradition: Indigenous Knowledge & Open Educational Resources

By Britt Dzioba on November 5, 2021 | Tagged with Copyright, intellectual property, open access

Sovereignty and Tradition: Indigenous Knowledge & Open Educational Resources What’s an OER?  With rising publication costs and tuition fees, there is a movement challenging the exclusivity of academic research that contributes to educational inaccessibility. Academic publishing companies charge institutions thousands of dollars to lease the rights to the research that their own faculty and students […]

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Building Online Communities: Digital Tattoo at the IM Conference 2019

Building Online Communities: Digital Tattoo at the IM Conference 2019

By Monique Rodrigues on May 3, 2019 | Tagged with Building Online Community, Creative Commons, digital tattoo, Digital Tattoo Talks, open academia, open access

This year has been a very special one for the Digital Tattoo team. On the week of April 15, I flew to Toronto from Vancouver to participate on our very first Digital Tattoo Talks. The event was part of the Information and Museum Studies Conference hosted at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. This […]

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Movie Review: Paywall

Movie Review: Paywall

By Monique Rodrigues on January 24, 2019 | Tagged with Academic publishing, documentary, Elsevier, Jason Schmitt, movie review, open access, paywall, Review, scholarly publishing

Paywall: The Business of Scholarship Digital Tattoo Rating: 3/5 1 2 3 4 5 It doesn’t worth the time The trailer is enough An informative movie Would give it to a friend A must see! Summary As a student, I would expect that you have been stopped by a paywall at least once while trying […]

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Open Collaboration: A Reflection on OpenCon2018

Open Collaboration: A Reflection on OpenCon2018

By elyse hill on November 15, 2018 | Tagged with conference, open access, open culture, open data, open education, OpenCon, reflection

As a member of the Digital Tattoo project, we are constantly striving to create different avenues for student learning, by making high-quality educational resources free and accessible. Because of this, I was impelled to apply to the OpenCon 2018 to learn more about Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data. At the beginning of November, […]

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Digital Piracy – Canadian Copyright Law: Fair Use and Fair Dealing in Canadian Law (Part 2)

By Jason Cheung on May 31, 2018 | Tagged with Canada, Content, content ownership, Copyright Act, copyright law, Creative Commons, fair dealing, fair use, legality, open access, Work Ownership

  In the last part of our series, we looked at what Piracy was, and saw that it was dependent on the legal copyright protection of works within a country. Now let’s take a look at what Canadian law says about copyright and copyright protection. The Copyright Act of Canada, signed in 1921, establishes the […]

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DT Podcast – Episodes 1 & 2: Copyright and Open Access, now available

DT Podcast – Episodes 1 & 2: Copyright and Open Access, now available

By bryan short on October 15, 2017 | Tagged with Aaron Swartz, audio, Copyright, Creative Commons, digital tattoo podcast, intellectual property, michael geist, open access, podcast

The Digital Tattoo Podcast – Ep. 1 & 2: Copyright and Open Access The Digital Tattoo Podcast Project explores digital identity issues through interviews and investigations in an engaging audio format. Our first topic is copyright and open access at Canadian Universities. We’ll explore these topics after considering the life of Aaron Swartz, an American […]

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The Digital Tattoo Podcast: Episode 1 and 2 about Copyright and Open Access are now available

The Digital Tattoo Podcast: Episode 1 and 2 about Copyright and Open Access are now available

By bryan short on August 17, 2017 | Tagged with Aaron Swartz, audio, Copyright, digital tattoo podcast, intellectual property, open access, podcast

We’ve been working on bringing you the same exciting digital identity content in a new format. Introducing: The Digital Tattoo Podcast The Digital Tattoo Podcast Project explores digital identity issues through interviews and investigations in an engaging audio format. Our first topic is copyright and open access at Canadian Universities. We’ll explore these themes after […]

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“Could you patent the sun?”

By Kathleen Kalk on October 23, 2010 | Tagged with Copyright, open access, Publish, sharing

Despite all the ink dedicated to open access as a new publishing model it is in fact an old way. Take for example, Dr. Jonas Salk. Unknown thousands, maybe even you, owe their ability to walk to Dr. Salk. How so? He invented the vaccine for Polio in 1952.  The research, creation, and funding of […]

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Copyright Cowboy

By Kathleen Kalk on October 23, 2010 | Tagged with Copyright, intellectual property, open access, Publish, sharing

If you have an interest in copyright law and have not already watched Rip!: A remix manifesto, you need to check it out. The director’s politics are a bit heavy handed but the point is eye opening: copyright law has not always been what copyright law is today. Using mash-up music artist Girl Talk as […]

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