MBIB4150 Scholarly Communication Course description

The course covers practical and theoretical knowledge relating to the various stages of scholarly communication. The course includes:

• models for scholarly communication
• open science and open data
• publication patterns in different scholarly disciplines
• bibliometric methods and aims
• funding models for scholarly publication
• open access publishing and institutional archives

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Knowledge

The student:

• understands the structure of scholarly communication and publication on a national and international level, and how it is influenced by disciplinary differences
• has advanced knowledge of the political and practical aspects of open data, open access and open science
• is well acquainted with bibliometric methods and aims for the development of collections, mapping of research activity and research evaluation

Skills

The student is capable of:

• advising researchers in open-access publication solutions
• explaining and recommending metadata solutions for research data
• working with the administration of research data
• conducting simple bibliometric analysis

The course is organised as a weekly series of seminars. The students can attend the lectures on campus or follow them remotely online.

The students will write an assignment on a self-selected topic, which must be approved by the lecturer in advance. The semester paper can be written individually, in which case its scope shall be approx. 15 pages, or it can be written in groups of two or three students, in which case it shall have a scope of approx. 20 pages.

The assessment form is an individual written three-day home exam.

Candidates who fail the ordinary exam can take a resit/rescheduled exam.

A grade scale with grades from A to E for pass and F for fail is used.

The exam papers are graded by one internal and one external examiner.