LIBR 559K: TOPICS IN COMPUTER-BASED INFORMATION SYSTEMS: OPEN ACCESS - COURSE SYLLABUS
Program: Master of Library and Information Studies
Year:
2007 Summer Session, Term 1
Location: Koerner Library 216
Instructor: Heather Morrison
Office location:
SLAIS Adjunct Faculty Office
Office phone: (Work) 778.782.7001
Office hours:
Friday, May 11: 3:00 - 5:00
Wednesday, May 16: 10:00 - 12:00 [to be confirmed]
Thursday, June 7: 1:00 - 3:00
E-mail address: hgmorris@gmail.com
Course website address: http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/slais/
Course Goal: To provide overview of the basic concepts of Open-access. The open access movement is one of the key trends in librarianship today, one that presents librarians and archivists with challenges, but also significant opportunities for leadership. This course will provide students with an overview of open access, key definitions, how and why libraries and archives are involved in open access, trends, policies, and implications for librarians and archivists.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- have a basic understanding of what open access is, and be able to distinguish open access from related trends (such as free access to back issues of journals) (brief overview)
- understand open access archiving, library and archives involvement, and key issues for librarians and archivists
- understand open access publishing and its implications and opportunities for libraries
- know about major open access resources
- be able to provide assistance and advice to researchers wishing or needing to provide open access to their works
- have an introduction to the transformative potential of open access
Course Topics:
- overview and definitions of open access
- open access publishing (full, hybrids, library as publisher)
- open access archiving (institutional and disciplinary, library involvement)
- open access policy and advocacy and library roles
- futures for open access, and transformative potential of open access
Prerequisites: LIBR 500, 501, 502, 503
Format of the course: Lecture, small group work in class, discussion, and guest speakers.
Required Reading:
Required:
Peter Suber’s Open Access Overview
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
Major open access definitions:
Budapest Open Access Initiative
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html
Willinsky, John (2006) The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship. Cambridge , Mass. : MIT Press. Introduction, Opening, Appendix A: 10 flavors of open access.
Available in DLIST: http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1188/
Jim Giles. PR’s ‘Pit Bull’ Takes on Open Access. Nature. January 24, 2007 .
Open Access Now: (Mis)Leading Open Access Myths
http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/inquiry/myths/
Required Resources (Students should have some familiarity with each of these resources):
Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/
Directory of Open Access Repositories: OpenDOAR
http://www.opendoar.org/
Steve Hitchcock. The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies.
http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
SHERPA/RoMEO Publisher Copyright Policies and Self-Archiving
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
Authors’ Rights
Science Commons: Scholars’ Copyright Project
http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/index.html
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
Resources for Authors
http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/index.html
Policy Directories
Sherpa Juliet – Research Funder’s Open Access Policies
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/index.php
ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies:
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
Public Knowledge Project
http://pkp.sfu.ca/
Open Access Archives Resources
OAIster:
http://www.oaister.org/
Canadian Association of Research Libraries / Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada OAI Harvester
http://carl-abrc-oai.lib.sfu.ca/
PubMedCentral
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
arXiv
http://arxiv.org/
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
http://repec.org/
E-LIS: the Open Archive for Library and Information Studies
http://eprints.rclis.org/
CERN Library website and CERN Document server
http://library.cern.ch/
International Development Research Centre (IDRC/CDRI) Digital Library
https://idl-bnc.idrc.ca/dspace/
News
Peter Suber’s Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
Recommended:
Charles Bailey. Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals.
http://www.digital-scholarship.com/oab/oab.htm
Overview of open access concepts, bibliography of resources on open access from 1999 – 2004.
Charles Bailey. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepb.html
UBC Library Page – Subject Resources for Open Access and Scholarly Communication
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/subjects/subjpage2.cfm?id=960
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition – Resources
http://www.arl.org/sparc/resources/
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP): the Facts about Open Access – free to download from:http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/default.asp?ID=200
SPARC Open Access Newsletter
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm
CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI5), April 2007: all presentations freely available as webcasts:
http://oai5.web.cern.ch/oai5/
Listservs:
SPARC Open Access Forum
https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/List.html
American Scientist Open Access Forum
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
Liblicense-L (for controversial discussion)
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/
Course Assignments, Due dates and Weight in relation to final course mark:
Class & Blog Participation |
|
10% |
Assignment (Paper, website, blog or wiki) |
Due June 15th |
90% |
Course Schedule [week-by-week]:
Friday, May 11 5-9 |
Open Access Definitions & Resources |
Saturday, May 12 10:00 – 1:00 |
Open Access Publishing Guest Speaker: Brian Owen, SFU Library: Open Journal Systems |
Saturday, May 12 2:00 – 5:00 |
Open Access Archiving Guest Speakers: Hilde Coldenbrander, UBC Digital Repository Librarian (UBC, OAI5) Ian Song, SFU Library Digital Initiatives Librarian, SFU Theses Project
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Attendance: The calendar states: “Regular attendance is expected of students in all their classes (including lectures, laboratories, tutorials, seminars, etc.). Students who neglect their academic work and assignments may be excluded from the final examinations. Students who are unavoidably absent because of illness or disability should report to their instructors on return to classes.”
Evaluation: All assignments will be awarded letter grades using the evaluative criteria given on the SLAIS web site.
Written & Spoken English Requirement: Written and spoken work may receive a lower mark if it is, in the opinion of the instructor, deficient in English.
Other Course Policies as Relevant – The class participation component is based on attendance and participation in the class blog, at: http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/slais/
In the interests of privacy, anonymous participation in the class blog is accepted; please confirm a pseudonym with the instructor in advance.
Academic Dishonesty
Plagiarism will not be tolerated under any circumstances. Suspected cases will be reported to the appropriate authorities. Those guilty of plagiarism will receive a failing grade and may face expulsion from the University. For more information, see: http://students.ubc.ca/calendar/index.cfm?tree=3,54,0,0
- Plagiarism Resource Centre: For Students
http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/plagiarism/welcome.html
- Plagiarism Avoided: Taking Responsibility For Your Work
http://www.arts.ubc.ca/Plagiarism_Avoided.373.0.html
