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MCC Daily Tribune

Celebrate Open Education Week- Day Five

*Day Five Highlights*-

Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier and looks at how that profit margin is often greater than some of the most profitable tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Google.

Staying true to the open access model: it is free to stream and download, for private or public use, and maintains the most open CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons designation to ensure anyone regardless of their social, financial or political background will have access.

Related to this documentary is the recent decision by the University of California to end negotiations with Elsevier when conditions for a contract renewal regarding universal open access publishing of UC research could not be agreed upon.

Now that we have reached the final day of Open Education Week 2019, we hope that you are eager to see how "open" can benefit you and our students. We encourage you to learn more about open education by visiting the SUNY OER Services website, and consider attending an upcoming OER Conference or professional development opportunity.

Want to know more about "open"? Contact Michelle Beechey (mbeechey@monroecc.edu) or send an email to oer@suny.edu.

Michelle Beechey
Library
03/08/2019