Figure 3 . Seminar and course web page of open science scholar Elena Giglia on Turin’s University website. [Retrieved from https://www.oa.unito.it/new/materiale-scaricabile/, May 2023].
Rather than on the website itself, it may be useful to upload the materials on scientific repositories such as Zenodo.org, where the material is given a DOI and made permanently available online. Students from Giglia’s courses, workshops and seminars (as well as researchers and students from across the world) can thus freely download presentation slides in English or in Italian from the repository. Being generally licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, the educational material – which may comprise OA textbooks, videos and interviews – can be reproduced, freely used and distributed for any purpose, provided that appropriate credit is given.
For example, the aforementioned personal academic website of philosophy scholar Matthew J. Brown includes in the home page (Figure 1) links to online videos in which he discusses philosophy topics from Heidegger’s to Dewey’s thought.
From lecture videos through exercises and questions and answers (Q&A), sharing teaching resources on the faculty’s personal academic website will, inter alia , aid in reducing multiple e-mails sent by anxious students, badly affecting the work of many professors and educators [33]. Sharing educational materials on a personal academic website does not replace in-person teaching with its unique benefits and advantages [34]. To the contrary, the key resource to overcome both e-mail anxiety [33] and to promote the purposeful uptake of open science, including scholarly communication in the digital era of open science [35], is in-person education supported by the wise use of digital technologies, such a personal academic website.