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Researching and blogging for this topic has been a real eyeopener. Having chosen to take a slightly alternative approach from the ideas presented, by focussing on the online press as opposed to academic research, I think I shed a new light on the issue. That isn’t to say, however, that similar issues did not arise. Continue reading →

This week’s topic on the advantages and disadvantages of Open Access for the content producer generated some interesting thoughts amongst fellow UOSM2008 students. It additionally prompted several of us to try new ways of presenting our blog posts: Prezis, SlideShares and videos were abundant! What stood out the most this week was the overwhelmingly positive response to Open Access.  I was not alone in sharing my frustration at restricted access to articles. Continue reading →

Topic 5 bought to light a wide host of opinions and discussion surrounding the open access of online content, with particular regard to academia and scientific research. Continue reading →

To be honest, this isn’t a subject I’d thought about before; like all of our community, when I’ve been completing my University assignments I have found it difficult or impossible to access key articles. So before looking into this topic I would have been 100% in favour of Open Access. Continue reading →

I’ve always found the topics intertesting but I think perhaps because this is the last topic with UOSM2008 before moving to the next part of the module, I’ve carried out the most research about Open Access Materials and it’s uses. The number of articles and material I read made me further research into who acturally produced the research that I was reading to be used for my blog. Continue reading →

I’ve always found the topics intertesting but I think perhaps because this is the last topic with UOSM2008 before moving to the next part of the module, I’ve carried out the most research about Open Access Materials and it’s uses. The number of articles and material I read made me further research into who acturally produced the research that I was reading to be used for my blog. Continue reading →

And just like that, the final topic is over. Topic 5 was probably one of my favourites topics so far as there was a variety of things that could have been spoken about and I particularly enjoyed reading experiences both online and within this module of people’s experience with online materials. I really enjoyed Hayley’s post as she used Prezi to give a brief insight of what open access is and I think I will definitely consider using Prezi when doing presentations in the future. Continue reading →

The topic of Open Access has sparked interesting contributions from blog’s Authors. Firstly, although in general it seems everyone appreciated the idea of Open Science, some legitimate voices of concern were raised. Secondly, there seemed to be a division in terms of post topics, with the largest group focusing on Open Access in Academia, while the rest of students wrote about same notion applied more generally to content on the Web (especially journalism). Continue reading →