It was intense and inspiring. I would love to return to take other courses on new interesting topics. Thank you all!
Unforgettable
Sunset from Scripps Institution of Oceanograhy
From 3
It was intense and inspiring. I would love to return to take other courses on new interesting topics. Thank you all!
Unforgettable
Sunset from Scripps Institution of Oceanograhy
From 3
Course chair
Cameron Neylon, PhD
Professor of Research Communications, Centre for Culture and Technology,
Curtin University, Australia
An overview of the Scholarly Communications landscape of today: how we got here, the current state of the field and how it is changing.
1. When is something published? Functions of the scholarly communication system
Sketching the landscape:
The process of publishing involves many actors and processes.
2. Opening the black box of scholarly communication funding.
Understanding the complexity of financial movements in scholarly communications and the importance of transparency in understanding such flows.
Case Study: Mexico
3. Main issues of peer review as currently practice:
Course chair
Gimena del Rio Riande, PhD
Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual (IIBICRIT), National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Instructors
Wouter Schallier
Chief, Hernán Santa Cruz Library, UN/ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations), Santiago, Chile.
April M. Hathcock
Scholarly Communication Librarian, New York University.
Daniel O’Donnell, PhD
Professor of English, University of Lethbridge, Canada.
What would we ideally want to see in open scholarship in terms of infrastructure, tools, partnerships, etc.?
How can we bring the state of global open scholarship from where it is now to where we want it to be?
How can we begin to address these constraints?
Projects presented:
Good practices, examples of institutional policies and practical recommendations from Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean.
1. LEARN: LEaders Activating Research Networks: Implementing the LERU Research Data Roadmap and Toolkit.
This project has created resources to help research performing institutions manage their research data.
2. Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE)
Enabling researchers and universities involved in Horizon 2020 projects to comply with the European Commission open access policy.
Formulation of a new project (in collaboration with Ricardo Hartley, Chile):
Nature: Metrics related to Open Science; access to scientific literature and supplementary data.
Objective: To perform a formal, systematic and periodic monitoring of the accessibility of research publications produced in LAC countries (open research articles, open books, etc.), internationally visible (indexed in WoS or Scopus).
Variables / Focus
Location:
Funding:
Attendees: universities, national S&T bodies
Partners: ECLAC, OPS, MERCOSUR
Barriers:
We expected to build a bridge between the North and the South in terms of Scholarly Communication.
We learnt it’s difficult but not impossible.
We should definitely devote more time to hands on work.
Course chair
Stefan Tanaka, PhD
Professor of Communication, University of California San Diego, USA
Instructors
Daniel O’Donnell, PhD
Professor of English, University of Lethbridge, Canada
Allegra Swift
Scholarly Communications Librarian, UC San Diego, USA
David De Roure, PhD
Professor of e-Research at University of Oxford, UK
As we are building tools, changing infrastructure, and creating new ways to disseminate and share scholarly output, we have been less focused one of the most difficult (because it is cultural) issues – the institutional reward and recognition system, including policies and practices regarding merit, promotion and tenure.
Current systems of evaluation and reporting remain entrenched in ages-old practices while falling further behind advances in scholarship, research methods, publication, impact measurement and reporting. Often uncertainty and misinformation are circulated through evaluators and the evaluated alike, and barriers to the evolution of scholarly communication make it more difficult to entice and retain the best and the brightest.
This course will unpack current practices. It will discuss official university requirements, examine best-practice statements of various disciplines, compare the varied application of these policies and explore strategies for updating promotion practices.
Political and cultural landscape
This is where finger pointing often hinders understanding: different interests blame others. Points where status quo is maintained (often inadvertently): they range from uncertain faculty, departmental cultures, university-wide review committees, and administrative practices.
Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media
***More focused on content, less on the metrics***
***Impact beyond academia***
Promoting diversity of practices
Updated practices and guidelines for open research. Many disciplines have issued or updated statements that recognize the changing digital landscape.
The TOP Guidelines were created by journals, funders, and societies to align scientific ideals with practices
Transparency and Openness Promotion guidelines: eight modular standards, each with three levels of increasing stringency. Journals select which of the eight transparency standards they wish to adopt for their journal, and select a level of implementation for each standard. These features provide flexibility for adoption depending on disciplinary variation, but simultaneously establish community standards.
San Francisco Declaration On Research Assessment
What is useful that you can use at your institutions?
What is a problem that you find most difficult?
What did we learn?