Open education efforts focus specifically on teaching and curriculum as part of the broader landscape of open knowledge. The multiple interrelated open movements challenge systemic barriers to information access and scholarly communications. Proponents of Open frame educational and research outputs as public goods, arguing that sharing and collaboration foster higher-quality end products, advance global research goals, and enhance humanity's ability to address grand challenges.
In addition to open education, open knowledge efforts include open access, open data, open science, and open source software, among others.
Many librarians and staff at the UMD Libraries actively support open research, education, and collections. The people listed in this chart have "open" in their job titles and/or major job duties.
| Division | Collection Strategies & Services (CSS) | Research & Academic Services (RAS) | Research & Academic Services (RAS) |
| Department | Open Scholarship Services (OSS) | Research Teaching & Learning (RTL) | Research Teaching & Learning (RTL) |
| Unit(s) | - | Research Education and Humanities & Social Sciences Librarians | STEM Library |
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