About All Things Open

All Things Open serves as a submission site and repository for scholarly communication events occurring at the Kennesaw State University Library System. Please reach out if you have any questions or concerns.

What do we mean when we say All Things Open? ATO encompasses:

  • Open Access
    As outlined by the Open Knowledge Foundation, open access involves the "openness" of all knowledge to develop a robust commons for universal participation. Have you recently worked on a project which included open access materials or resources? Maybe you’ve published a manuscript open access and would like to share your thoughts and opinions on the process.
  • Open Data
    Open data is data that anyone can access, use, and share. Open data must be licensed, and the license must permit people to use the data in any way they wish, including transforming, combining, and sharing it with others, even commercially. Have you created a dataset using an applicable license? We want to hear about it!
  • Open Education and Pedagogy
    Open pedagogy, also known as open educational practices (OEP), is the use of open educational resources (OER) to support learning, or the open sharing of teaching practices with a goal of improving education and training at the institutional, professional, and individual level. Open Education includes both open pedagogy and the use of OERs.
  • Open Science
    Open Science refers to the practice of science in such a way that others can collaborate and contribute, where research data, lab notes, and other research processes are freely available, under terms that enable reuse, redistribution and reproduction of the research and its underlying data and methods. In this way, research is shared at the very beginning (and idea) rather than the end (publication). Has your institution adopted an open science policy, or have you been approved for a grant which stipulates your methods must be shared openly? Tell us about it!
  • Open Source
    Originally, open source only applied to the creation of computer programs. Today, "open source" encompasses projects, products, or initiatives which embrace and celebrate principles of open exchange, collaborative participation, rapid prototyping, transparency, meritocracy, and community-oriented development. Perhaps you have experience with GitHub, or you’ve developed code for a game. Your project may be of interest to a wider audience!
  • Open Legalities
    This concept is something we developed to describe the legal intricacies of copyright and open access. It encompasses experiences with fair use, copyright, and open licensing. Have you been able to use or create “open” works despite copyright stipulations? Or, for example, have you utilized fair use best practices in open educational resources? If you’ve found a creative way to open a door to open access, please share it with us!

This list is not meant to be comprehensive or static. We truly want to engage with all things open. If your idea doesn’t fit into any of these categories, please submit it anyway.

The All Things Open Committee is comprised of:

  • Laura Beane, Kennesaw State University
  • Sabrina Davis, Texas Tech University
  • Chelsee Dickson, Kennesaw State University
  • Heather Hankins, Kennesaw State University
  • Femi Jayeola, Kennesaw State University
  • Austin Moyers, Texas Tech University
  • Brianna Parfaite, Kennesaw State University
  • Rachel Schrauben Yeates, Kennesaw State University