Scholarly Communication Training for Librarians: Further Exploration

“This course is a professional development opportunity designed to provide a basic introduction to US copyright law and to empower teachers and librarians at all grade levels. Course participants will discover that the law is designed to help educators and librarians.”

“CopyrightX is a twelve-week networked course, offered from January to May each year under the auspices of Harvard Law School, the HarvardX distance-learning initiative, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The course explores the current law of copyright; the impact of that law on art, entertainment, and industry; and the ongoing debates concerning how the law should be reformed…”

This is a mini-MOOC from Wake Forest University Library that examines the digital publishing landscape.

These are free Webinars about various scholarly communication topics.

Videos of presentations given at publishing-related conferences (CrossRef, Force 2015, Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, etc.) are posted here.

This site provides a variety of resources on scholarly communication topics, including journal publishing, open educational resources, as well as theses, dissertations, and capstone projects.

This is a series of podcasts by Kenneth Crews with assistance of Neil Wehneman. "Each podcast is typically about 15 minutes in length, and the series is especially suited for giving members of the academic community a guide to the fundamentals of copyright for teaching, research, and other pursuits."

Once a month community calls for people interested in learning, educating and advocating for Open Access, Open Education and Open Data.

OpenCon is a platform for the next generation to learn about Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data, develop critical skills, and catalyze action toward a more open system of research and education.

The Scholarly Communication Institute will deliver a curriculum to greatly improve the abilities of participants to navigate in this new world. Aimed at different audiences, including students, researchers, administrators, funders, and information professionals such as librarians and publishers.

The 2016 SPARC MORE Conference brought together a diverse array of perspectives to work on every aspect of creating a system that serves scholarship, disseminates knowledge, and feeds the public good. Includes recordings.

The Charleston Conference is an informal annual gathering of librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors of library materials in Charleston, SC, in November, to discuss issues of importance to them all.

The Triangle SCI aims to bring together groups of scholars, information scientists, librarians, publishers, technologists, and others from both inside and outside academia (i.e., journalists, industry, non-profit organizations, museums, independent researchers) to articulate and begin to address needs and opportunities in the domain of scholarly communications.