This list is out of date, but note that the Open Access Directory has a list of courses about OA: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Courses_about_OA
I developed and taught courses on scholarly communication and open access for the UBC i-school in 2007 and wrote a published a textbook for the scholarly communication class, Scholarly Communication for Librarians. I have never used this as a textbook and do not currently recommend it because it is too expensive, out of date, and is currently owned by Elsevier, a company that I am boycotting. I mention this merely as one example that this is not new, this was a decade ago. Currently I am a recently tenured professor in the University of Ottawa's bilingual (French / English) Information Studies program. Open access and related topics are pervasive in our curriculum. Because we are a capital city in a country with a strong commitment to open government and open government data (policy is open by default), this is particularly prominent. When I teach the course "the publishing business: transformations and opportunities", students learn by creating and publishing a peer-reviewed journal issue as part of the course, using OJS. I am pretty sure other professors are doing this too. This winter I taught a special topics course dedicated to open access. Because this is my research area, there are opportunities for graduate level research in this area, whether thesis-track (inquiries are welcome), or as research assistants. In North America the trend for some time has been towards more general information studies programs that include librarianship rather than library-specific programs. As an illustration of how this is relevant, we teach emerging professionals leadership and strategic planning skills, so that they will be prepared to take on change management roles not just on graduation but years after. We teach marketing skills that can be used in many environments rather than how to market the programs that are today's priorities. Many of the organizations that used to be separate are converging. The separation of government information professionals into librarians and information managers just doesn't make as much sense as it did a while ago. When records are born in electronic format this tends to change archival practice from dealing with material post-publication to planning for both use and retention at the document creation stage. If a department is managing all its records electronically until sent for preservation, both institutional records and publications are electronic documents and so may be handled by the same people, subject to overlapping policies, and possibly stored on the same servers: hence convergence. Employers work with us cooperatively to engage students in the practical aspects of professional work, as well as in ongoing discussions to help us shape the curriculum. Most of our full-time professors have significant professional experience as well as academic qualifications, and many of our adjuncts are full-time working professionals. At the University of Ottawa, many of our students spend 4 - 8 months in the field as part of their program. This is quite common in information studies programs, at least in North America. Perhaps some of these approaches and ideas could be helpful to those wishing to advance professional education in other areas. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Associate Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa Desmarais 111-02 613-562-5800 ext. 7634 Sustaining the Knowledge Commons: Open Access Scholarship http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/ http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html heather.morri...@uottawa.ca<mailto:heather.morri...@uottawa.ca> On 2017-08-15, at 3:16 AM, Dr D.A. Kingsley <da...@cam.ac.uk<mailto:da...@cam.ac.uk>> wrote: <Apologies for cross posting> A new Blog on Unlocking Research might be of interest: "Planning scholarly communication training in the UK” https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1517 A taster: In June 2017 a group of people met in London to discuss the issues around scholarly communication training delivery in the UK. Representatives from RLUK, UKSG, SCONUL, UKCoRR, Vitae, Jisc and some universities had a workshop to nut through the problem. Possibly because of the nature of the attendees of the group, the discussion was very library-centric, but this does not preclude the need for training outside the library sector. This blog is a summary of the discussion from that day. Regards, Danny Dr Danny Kingsley Head, Office of Scholarly Communication Cambridge University Library West Road, CB3 9DR e: da...@cam.ac.uk<mailto:da...@cam.ac.uk> p: 01223 747 437 m: 07711 500 564 t: @dannykay68 w: www.osc.cam.ac.uk<http://www.osc.cam.ac.uk/> b: https://unlocking<https://unlocking/> research.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk o: orcid.org/0000-0002-3636-5939<http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3636-5939> _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org<mailto:GOAL@eprints.org> http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
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