INLS 700, section 001, Fall 2014
Instructor: Dr. Hemminger
This planned schedule lists the assignments and readings for each of the topics we'll cover. Readings are listed in the order they should be read. Other readings or assignments may be assigned as appropriate.
Tuesday |
A0 due |
Introduction to course and each other. Background and history of scholarly communications. Discuss your first Assignment A1. History Slides. |
Thursday 8/21 |
R1a: Fjällbrant 1997 Historical Development and New Possibilities R1b: Barjak 2006 Role of the Internet A1 due |
How the digital representation of materials has changed
everything. New models of scholarly communications. Challenges
present in old and new models. |
Tuesday |
R2a: Panitch2005 Serials Crisis |
Serials Crisis Discussion in depth. How it affects libraries, scholarship, collection development/licensing. A2 assigned. |
Thursday 8/28 |
R3a: Branin2000
Changing Nature of Collection Development R3b: Suber2012 Open Access | How libraries manage their content has changed. Cover Open Access in detail. Discuss what's happening at UNC. Discuss Open Access at UNC, and what's happened at other leading institutions ( SPARC OA Guidelines, Harvard-OA-GoodPractices, University of California, Duke). |
Tuesday |
R3c: Bohannon2014 R3d: Michael Eisen response R3e: Peter Suber response R3f: Faked Peer Reviews Reading Responses optional. |
Review A2 work, and discuss what we think would be best
policies. Talk about the "Wild West" of online publishing.
Lead into University Presses, library publishing. |
Thursday 9/4 |
R4: AAUP
reivew of University Press Economic Models Read Executive
Summary, New Approaches to Scholarly Publishing,
Recommendations. Everything else you can skim. R4 Short1: Cassuto2013 Rise of the Mini-Monograph R4 Short2: Amherst experience article. Please read "Short"s but no reading response required for them. R4 Additional Resource: Mulhooland Publishing a Book. |
Guest Presenter: John Sherer, director of UNC Press, on challenges faced by University Presses (slides). Talk about how monographs/books are handled differently than journals articles (as well as commonalities). |
Tuesday |
R5a: Tower2012:
Video Introduction to OERs R5b: Mossely2013 OER and Open Education |
Discuss how textbooks are diffrent. Introduce and explain OERs in detail, and history of OERs at UNC and other institutions. Talk about what the potential positives are and what faculty and institutional concerns are. |
Thursday 9/11 |
A3 due R6a: Ware 2012 Peer Review R6b: Smith 1998 Problems with Peer Review |
Review A3. Discuss how peer review works, and flaws (draw on my slides). Discuss how T&P works. (slides/?). Discuss it's problems. Discuss possible solutions.discuss Peer Review in detail. |
Tuesday 9/16 |
R7a: Crow 2002 Case for Institutional Repositories R7b: Xia 2009 Library Publishing Optional Reading: SPARC 2002 Detailed Examiniation of Case for Institutional Repositories |
Guest Speaker: Katherine Skinner on institutional repositories and academic publishing. (Slides, Notes, and Video). |
Thursday 8/18 |
R8a: Pendelbury
2009 Use and Misue of Journal Metrics R8b: Roemer 2012 From Bibliometrics To Altmetrics |
In depth discussion of evaluation, covering citation metrics, impact factor, through new altmetrics. |
Tuesday 9/23 |
A4 due |
Discuss A4 and contrast and compare ways to evaluate
scholarly value. Introduce "public scholarly knowledge", citizen science etc. Talk about new forays into expanding sphere of public knowledge overlapping scholarly knowledge (wikipedia, Encyclopedia of Life, etc.) |
Thursday 9/25 |
R9a: Burgess 2011
2009 R9b: Citizen Science Projects. For 9b you should pick one example project from this list or something similar, learn more about it and discuss how scholarship is similar/different with this citizen science project environment compared to our standard academic one (Eleven Services). |
Discuss new digital scholarship communication. What tools
and environments are scholars using to communicate their
scholarship? Blogs, wikis, tweets, videos, etc. Began coverage of tools for managing scholarly resources. . |
Tuesday |
A5 due |
Review A5 and what they think are the best (and what they
use). What would be the ideal characteristics of a personal
or university based system for managing scholarly
resources?. |
Thursday 10/2 |
Reading (from Kevin's blog): Fair Use vs Open Access EU's gift to Libraries MOOCs and student learning Who owns that Journal? You do not have to write responses. Instead please think of 3 thoughtful and provocative questions to pose to our two guests. Write them out in our Reading Response area. | Guest Speakers: SCC directors from UNC (Anne Gilliand) and
Duke (Kevin Smith). Course Evaluations. |
Thursday |
Final Project Presentations |
Everyone's Final Project Presentations!! End of class. |
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