Empowering Graduate Students

Agency Through Open Scholarship

Abstract

Track: Open Educational Resources, Open Pedagogy & Open Access Scholarship

Along with developing expertise in their own field of study, graduate students are forced to rapidly become familiar with the world of academic publishing. This can be overwhelming as students are faced with making choices about where and how to publish. As developing and future scholars, the practices they hone during graduate school can shape the future of academic publishing. This session will describe a workshop developed in collaboration between a library and graduate center to help students understand the complex academic publishing environment and their agency in it, especially how they can make active choices to support open scholarship and make their work open and available to the public. Presenters will discuss why graduate students are a critical audience for open education advocacy and how to help them feel empowered to make choices that support their own scholarship alongside open publishing.