LIBR 559K: Topics in computer-based information systems: OPEN Access – Course Syllabus (1)
Course Schedule: Saturday,
May 31 9:00 – 12:00 & 1:00 – 5:00 & Saturday,
June 7, 2008, 9:00 – 12:00
Location: TBA
Instructor: Heather Morrison
Office location: SLAIS Adjunct Faculty
Office
Office phone: (Work)
778.782.7001
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
- have produced a subject guide or tutorial on an open access related topic
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, discussion, and guest speakers.
Required and Recommended Reading:
Required Advanced Readings:
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
SPARC Canadian
Author’s Addendum – download from
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/new/new-e.html
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
http://library.cern.ch/ and
CERN Document server
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://tinyurl.com/z4oe5
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 Participation |
|
10% |
Brief Presentation (5 minutes or less) |
Due June 7th |
20% |
Assignment (Subject guide or tutorial on open-access related topic for web delivery, e.g. website, blog, podcast) |
Due June 15th |
70% |
Course Schedule
Saturday, May 31 9:00 – 12:00 |
Open Access Definitions & Overview |
Saturday, May 31 1:00 – 5:00 |
Open Access Publishing |
Saturday, June 7 9:00 – 12:00 |
Open Access Archiving |
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.”
Since this is a 1-credit course students must attend the full class meetings on both days in order to receive credit for the course
Academic Dishonesty: Please review the UBC Calendar "Academic regulations" for the University policy on cheating, plagiarism, and other forms of academic dishonesty: http://www.students.ubc.ca/calendar/index.cfm?tree=3,54,111,959. Also visit and review the contents of these two resources: Plagiarism Resource Centre: For Students and Plagiarism Avoided: Taking Responsibility For Your Work for useful information on avoiding plagiarism and on correct documentation. Students are held responsible for knowing and following all University regulations regarding academic dishonesty. If a student does not know how to properly cite a source or what constitutes proper use of a source it is the student's personal responsibility to obtain the needed information and to apply it within University guidelines and policies. If evidence of academic dishonesty is found in a course assignment, previously submitted work in this course may be reviewed for academic dishonesty and grades modified as appropriate.
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.
