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LIBR 559L: Topics in Computer-Based Information Systems: Issues in Scholarly Communications and Publishing (3) -- Course Description
PREREQUISITES :
MLIS and Dual MAS/MLIS: completion of the MLIS core
MAS: completion of MAS core and permission of the SLAIS Graduate Adviser
GOALS : Scholarly communications are presently undergoing a transformation driven by the shift from the print to the electronic medium combined with the world wide web. This course will provide the student with a strong theoretical framework to understand the challenges, and leadership potential for librarians and archivists, in the new environment for scholarly communications.
OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- have a basic understanding of academic research and scholarly communications
- understand the challenges and opportunities for libraries and academics made possible by electronics and the world wide web, including:
- open access: library, researcher, and user perspectives
- open source scholarship
- open data
- global research collaborations: small / ad hoc and large-scale
- interdisciplinary research collaborations: potential roles for librarians and archivists
- open collaboration (e.g. scholarly blogs and wikis)
- e-science
- peer review reform
- open access archives
- dark archives
- library as publisher or publisher support
- have a theoretical framework for understanding the implications of transformation in scholarly communications for library and archival collections and vice versa; for example, the need for preserving and making accessible scholarly blogs and research data in addition to traditionally published material
CONTENT :
- brief history of scholarly communications
- the present of scholarly communications
- the role of libraries and archives in scholarly communications
- new possibilities for scholarly communications
