INF STD 204

Electronic Publishing

Description: Lecture, three and one half hours. Designed for MLIS students. Scholarly communication system is in disarray. It is no longer clear what it means to publish articles and books. Digital distribution is norm, whether peer-reviewed in journals or by blogs or social media. Scholarly communication is becoming more atomized in small units of research objects that can be combined in many ways. Open access publishing, now required by many funding agencies and universities, has altered relationships between authors, readers, publishers, and libraries. Survey of evolving landscape of scholarly communication, providing introduction to publishing, technology, and policy issues such as open access, mass digitization, institutional repositories, computable publications, and altmetrics. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0
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