The ALT Journal is not an Open Access publication. But by agreement with the publisher, 18 months after each issue is published, ALTputs the individual articles from ALT-J into the ALT Open Access Repository. (Disclosure: I work for ALT part-time.)
Volume 16 Number 3 is the most recently released issue under this arrangement, and is a Special Issue on learning and immersive and virtual worlds, edited by Maggi Savin-Baden and Robert Ward. Here are links to the individual articles in the repository.
- Bell, Frances and Savin-Baden, Maggi and Ward, Robert (2008) Editorial
- Richards, Debbie and Fassbender, Eric and Bilgin, Ayse and Thompson, William (2008) An investigation of the role of background music in IVWs for learning
- Middleton, Andrew and Mather, Richard (2008) Machinima interventions: innovative approaches to immersive virtual world curriculum integration
- Savin-Baden, Maggi (2008) From cognitive capability to social reform? Shifting perceptions of learning in immersive virtual worlds
- Bayne, Sian (2008) Uncanny spaces for higher education: teaching and learning in virtual worlds
- Whitton, Nicola and Hollins, Paul (2008) Collaborative virtual gaming worlds in higher education
- Good, Judith and Howland, Katherine and Thackray, Liz (2008) Problem-based learning spanning real and virtual words: a case study in Second Life
- McVey, Michael (2008) Observations of expert communicators in immersive virtual worlds: implications for synchronous discussion
- Minocha, Shailey and Roberts, Dave (2008) Laying the groundwork for socialisation and knowledge construction within 3D virtual worlds
- Livingstone, Daniel and Kemp, Jeremy and Edgar, Edmund (2008) From Multi-User Virtual Environment to 3D Virtual Learning Environment
Isn't it about time the Alt journal became open access? Why, in this day and age, would it not be?
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Thanks Stephen. In short, because Open Access is not provided for by the contract under which the journal is currently published. Watch this space, or rather, the ALT space. Seb
Posted by: Stephen Downes | 12/09/2010 at 17:30
I would vote for that. Being 'non-visual', paper is just a very inefficient way to move information from one electronic device to another i.e. I have to scan it all back in again.
It would be good to see ALT make a point of providing accessible electronic versions of their publications.
Posted by: Graham Lewis | 19/09/2010 at 20:01