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
8/19

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
8/26

R2a: Panitch2005 Serials Crisis
R2b: Urs2004 Copyright

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
9/2

A2 due

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
9/9

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
9/30

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?.
Start on role of libraries and in particular Scholarly Communications Officer.

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
10/7

Final Project Presentations

Everyone's Final Project Presentations!! End of class.

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