The benefits of Open Access Publishing for students in higher education

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benefits of Open Access Publishing for students in higher education
Institute of Social Studies. EADI IMWG conference on "Open ... alle » Access".
Most students in higher education have some experience with Open Access when doing their deskresearch. They appreciate the free access of scholar publications on the World Wide Web.
But students in higher education also develop their competences as junior researchers and publishers. Can Open Access Publishing help them to get some reputation in the international academic society? And how appreciate they the readers’ feedback on papers published on the internet?
The Millennium Generation has grown up with free accessible information. They are supposed to embrace the idea of Open Access Publishing. However, students also may be anxious for publishing (preprints of) their papers, for instance for copyright reasons. It seems that good communication about the possibilities of Open Access Publishing by their educators (tutors, professors and librarians!) is very important. Peter Becker and Jos van Helvoort, professors teaching Library and Information Science in the Netherlands, would appreciate to discuss these topics with an international public.
Authors: Peter Becker was educated as music librarian, and worked 10 years at the information service of a university of professional arts education.
The last seven years he developed training programs for information workers in academic and public libraries.
Since 2007 Peter is lecturer at the department of Library & Information Studies of The Hague University.
Jos van Helvoort (1957) graduated in 1981 in Dutch Language & Literature. He worked as a teacher in secondary education and as course developer in the disciplines of Library Science and Record Management.
Since 2001 he is a senior lecturer at the department of Library & Information Studies of The Hague University. His interests include Information Research, Information Management and Information Literacy. As the chairman of the Board of Examiners of the faculty of ICT & Media he is strongly involved with assessment issues in Dutch higher education.