Collaborative discussion

Overview

Teaching: 10 min
Exercises: 50 min

Objectives

• Start thinking about what you want to include in your workshop

• Share ideas and get feedback from others

Introduction to Open Access

Alex Clarke from the University of Bristol library team will give a short presentation on open access publishing.

Discussion

In small groups, discuss the questions below. Make a note of points that come up in the collaborative editing document (Group Discussion section).

Discussion questions 30 min

Have a chat with others in your group.

• Briefly introduce yourselves to each other!
• What are the most important points or skills to cover in your workshop? What concepts do you think your attendees will be most unclear on or need the most guidance on?
• What challenges have you faced in publishing OA (or anticipate your attendees would face)?
• What do you (the trainer) not know about open access that you want to learn before you give a workshop?
• Which aspects of the workshop template would you use in your workshop? What is missing? What would you leave out or change?
• Who is your intended audience? Take the workshop attendees’ perspective – what do they want out of this workshop? How to target /recruit them to attend?
• What guidance does your institution already offer for OA? Familiarise yourself (or if already familiar, team up with another trainer and see theirs - what is easy/hard to navigate and/or understand?

Reporting back

One member of each group can summarise the breakout group’s discussion for the rest of the attendees. What did you spend most time talking about? Did you have any questions the group couldn’t answer?