Location
Forestry Room 127
Event Website
http://uenr.warnercnr.colostate.edu
Start Date
3-24-2012 12:30 PM
End Date
3-24-2012 1:00 PM
Description
Although graduate students are increasingly expected to publish before graduation, they are rarely offered formal education in the full range of the scholarly communication process in their discipline. They quickly learn how to do the research and to present their findings in a format suitable for submission to an academic peer-reviewed journal, but seldom do they (or their faculty advisors) understand the business of publishing and how that may affect their ability to get published. At Utah State University, the Department of Environment and Society (College of Natural Resources) started in 2010 requiring first-term graduate students to take a 2-credit class that will prepare them to publish in their field. Called Graduate Student Publishing Seminar (GSPS) it covers a broad range of topics related to scholarly communication and publishing. Actual publications are required to pass the class. The GSPS final grade is given the semester of their graduation. A senior professor in the department teaches GSPS with guest lectures provided by other faculty in the university. The subject librarian and a university press editor teach approximately 25% of the class. Based on the librarian’s lectures, this presentation will focus on why and how the GSPS curriculum includes information on the following topics: understanding the business of publishing, identifying and navigating the plethora of various publication types in a discipline, understanding impact and what it really means, reading publishing contracts and the copyright implications for the author (not only as a researcher but also as a future teacher), and familiarizing them to alternatives to traditional publishing – including open access models of publishing. The presentation will also provide a brief overview of GSPS’s overall course requirements as well as an assessment of student learning to the above curriculum.
Understanding Scholarly Communication – Tools to Help Graduate Students Publish
Forestry Room 127
Although graduate students are increasingly expected to publish before graduation, they are rarely offered formal education in the full range of the scholarly communication process in their discipline. They quickly learn how to do the research and to present their findings in a format suitable for submission to an academic peer-reviewed journal, but seldom do they (or their faculty advisors) understand the business of publishing and how that may affect their ability to get published. At Utah State University, the Department of Environment and Society (College of Natural Resources) started in 2010 requiring first-term graduate students to take a 2-credit class that will prepare them to publish in their field. Called Graduate Student Publishing Seminar (GSPS) it covers a broad range of topics related to scholarly communication and publishing. Actual publications are required to pass the class. The GSPS final grade is given the semester of their graduation. A senior professor in the department teaches GSPS with guest lectures provided by other faculty in the university. The subject librarian and a university press editor teach approximately 25% of the class. Based on the librarian’s lectures, this presentation will focus on why and how the GSPS curriculum includes information on the following topics: understanding the business of publishing, identifying and navigating the plethora of various publication types in a discipline, understanding impact and what it really means, reading publishing contracts and the copyright implications for the author (not only as a researcher but also as a future teacher), and familiarizing them to alternatives to traditional publishing – including open access models of publishing. The presentation will also provide a brief overview of GSPS’s overall course requirements as well as an assessment of student learning to the above curriculum.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cuenr/9thBiennial/Sessions/49
Comments
Citation: Clement, Susanne. 2012. Understanding Scholarly Communication – Tools to Help Graduate Students Publish. UENR 9th Biennial Conference. http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cuenr/9thBiennial/Sessions/49/