Open Access Week Featured Faculty Member: Shouhong Wang, Commonwealth Professor of the Charlton College of Business

International Open Access Week (October 24-30, 2022) is a time to recognize Open Access (OA), and to inspire scholars to engage in this advantageous model in scholarship and research. The term Open Access refers to scholarly information that is available digitally free of charge and without other access barriers. Some teaching and learning materials, referred to as Open Educational Resources (OER), are available for free online under flexible licenses called Creative Commons Licenses that allow for sharing and remixing. This includes textbooks – Yes, we said FREE textbooks. Each day this week we will feature a UMass Dartmouth faculty member who uses OER in their classroom or publishes scholarly work under a Creative Commons license. Today’s faculty member is a person who does both.

Shouhong Wang is a Commonwealth Professor of Decision & Information Sciences who has co-authored an open education textbook, and adopted it in his classroom for the past seven years. He has also published extensively on the challenges, strategies, and benefits of open education resources in higher education. We commend Prof. Shouhoung Wang for his contributions to the scholarly literature in open education and for the innovation that he has brought to the classroom. Take a look at some of Prof. Wang’s publications below, and if ever you need help accessing an article or traversing a paywall, please reach out to the library for assistance.