Assignments

For All Assignments you are to write at the bottom of your assignment write the following "I have neither given nor received aid while working on this assignment. I have completed the graded portion BEFORE looking at anyone else's work on this assignment. Signed YOUR NAME".

Contents

Assignment 0

Before the start of the first class please
  • Put your gmail account information in this google spreadsheet INLS 700 Roster
  • Review the course webpages.
  • Join the class listserv. Add yourself to Course Listserv
  • Learn how to use our class work wiki page (Google Sites wiki). It is linked off of main page, click on class work wiki--this is where we put our work by making a page under A0 folder (make page labeled with your name), and edit it to put in some text and a picture. In our first class you'll have to put your work up on the class work wiki, so you'll have a head start if you're already familiar with using it.
  • Bring your laptop to class (every class)

Assignment 1

Write 1-2 pages about how scholarly communications have changed for a particular domain/discipline; get evidence by either (a) interviewing a faculty member or senior researcher, or (b) researching literature about an area. Acadmedic disciplines are fine, but you can examine any organizational type (academic, industry, governement, non-profit, etc).

Assignment 2

Plan an approach for developing and delivering support for open access at university of your choice. Suggest you interview and talk with library at a different university if possible to learn about their experience. Can be a plan for developing and supporting OA at university that doesn't have a program, or if university already has support for OA, then a plan for evaluating its success/failures and propose changes to improve OA at that university. Provide a detailed plan covering implementation, budget, risks, benefits and a way to measure your successs after 2 years (2-3 pages).


Assignment 3

Practice Education and Marketing: Draw up a plan for how you would promote OERs to faculty at UNC (or university of your choice). Be sure to think about how to get faculty engaged, how to get them to participate, and how to handle concerns about OERs. (2-3 pages)


Assignment 4

Understanding scholarly value. We would like to evaluate the scholarly value (impact) of a journal, an individual article, and of an academician. Compare 3 journals, 3 articles, 3 academicians (your choice).
Evaluating Journals: ????.
Evaluating individual articles: ??. In class cover journal impact factor and how it's calculated, and other ways to review (see UMichigan pages). Whether to cover article impact factor???.
Evaluating Authors: Scopus (h-index), Web of Science (h-index), Google Scholar for author, g-index. Author Altmetrics: try altmetrics.com, impactstory, ?.

Assignment 5

Do a comparison of Scholarly Resource managers: mendeley, refworks, endnote, zotero. Have them use and report. Agree on framework for comparison, and have them each evaluate one (or two)? Have them do in pairs (do four different ones)

Final Project

Choose one of these two options for your final assignment:

Research Topic: Choose an area of interest to you, do research to learn more about it. Writeup your findings, and how this connects to what we've learned in class. Give a 12 minute preseentation on the important takeaways from what you've learned about your project area.

Job Interview: You are interviewing for scholarly communications officer position at University X. Give a 12 minute long presentation on what you would attempt to achieve at university of your choice. Provide specific plan based on that university. Prepare high quality presentation materials and do an outstanding job in your presentation (so much so that we'd want to hire you on the spot). I encourage to you to provide supplementary materials linked from your presentation. Be sure to practice your presentation and finish close to but NOT over 12 minutes.

Dress professionally, like you're presenting to upper management. Good luck! Make you presentation something you're proud of and want to include in your portfolio.