INLS 700, section 001, Fall 2019
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 | FALL BREAK |
NO CLASS |
Tuesday |
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 10/24 |
R2a: Panitch2005 Serials Crisis |
Serials Crisis Discussion in depth. How it affects libraries, scholarship, collection development/licensing. A2 assigned. |
Tuesday |
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). |
Thursday 10/31 |
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. |
Tuesday |
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. |
Thursday 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 |
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. |
Thursday 11/14 |
R7a: Bonn2015The
Roots and Branches of Library Publishing Programs. ONLY
the first 16 PAGES R7b: Skinner2014 Library-as-publisher: Capacity building for the library publishing subfield |
Guest Presenter: Katherine Skinner on library publishing. Additional materials on IR and library publishing. Presentation. (2014 Slides, Notes, and Video for reference). |
Tuesday 11/19 |
R4:
The
Value of the Monograph.The paper is full of detail. Read
as much as possible. Be sure to be familiar with the blue
boxed "highlights". Three short blog posts. Mellon OA project Read them in chronological order (June 2018, April 2019, October 2019). No reading response for blog posts. |
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 11/21 |
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 11/26 |
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 11/28 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
No Class. |
Tuesday |
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 12/5 |
Thursday |
Final Project Presentations |
Final Project Presentations |
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