INLS 700 Schedule

INLS 700, section 001, Fall 2017
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.

Thursday
10/12

A0 due

Introduction to course and each other. Background and history of scholarly communications. Discuss your first Assignment A1. History Slides.

Tuesday 10/17	R1a: Fjallbrant 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.
Thursday 10/19	FALL BREAK	NO CLASS

Tuesday 10/24	R2a: Panitch2005 Serials Crisis R2b: Urs2004 Copyright	Serials Crisis Discussion in depth. How it affects libraries, scholarship, collection development/licensing. A2 assigned.
Thursday 10/26	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 10/31	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 11/02	R5a: Tower2012: Video Introduction to OERs R5b: Mossely2013 OER and Open Education. Read through end of "Commonly Asked Questions".	Discuss how textbooks are different. 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. UNC OER Reference materials Executive Summary, Challenges, Evaluation.

Tuesday 11/7	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 11/9	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 11/14	R4a: The Future of the Monograph in the Digital Era R4b: The Costs of Publishing Monographs Read ONLY the Introduction and Conclusions. R4c: Why University Press is a Good Investment. Short blog post.	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).
Thursday 11/16	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.)

Tuesday 11/21	R7a: Crow 2002 Case for Institutional Repositories R7b: Xia 2009 Library Publishing	Guest Speaker: Katherine Skinner on institutional repositories and academic publishing. Presentation. (2014 Slides, Notes, and Video for reference).
Thursday 11/23	Thanksgiving Holiday	No Class.

Tuesday 11/28	R9a: Burgess 2011 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. .
Thursday 11/30	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.

Tuesday
12/05

Reading (from Kevin Smith'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 NC State (Will Cross).
Course Evaluations.

Thursday
12/14 12pm-4pm

Final Project Presentations

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