New Create Change Bookmarks

Create Change released a series of bookmarks to encourage open scholarly communication. The series invites four categories of scholars (humanists, mathematicians, social scientists, and biologists) to "Get more from your research. Share it."

Dr. Linda Hutcheon, Professor of English at the University of Toronto, recommends "Putting our work in an institutional repository" which "has the advantage of getting us priority on search engines. It makes our work more accessible and therefore it potentially has more impact."

Dr. David Morrison, Professor of Mathematics at UC Santa Barbara, states that "The nature of the scientific enterprise is founded on free and open communication of results. To reach a broad audience of other scientists may require new techniques of communication."

Dr. Carolyn Kenny, Professor of Human Development at Antioch University, predicts that "There is a revolution because of open access. It allows for much quicker communication and more communication internationally. It will change the way people learn and do things."

Dr. Gary Ward, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Vermont, encourages that "To maximize scientific progress, it’s critical that everyone has full access rather than be handcuffed with barriers to information. The more eyes looking at the data, the more we will learn."

The bookmarks, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license, are suitable for libraries as well as offices where graduate students are counseled for theses and dissertations.