Summer Training for Scholarly Communications Starts July 31


The FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute (FSCI), will hold a week-long summer training program designed to help researchers, administrators, librarians, and others navigate the ever changing and increasingly complex scholarly communications landscape. The program, which is being hosted by the UC San Diego Library, will be held at the university’s Institute of the Americas complex from July 31 through August 4, 2017.

FSCI@UCSD will incorporate intensive coursework, seminar participation, group activities, lectures, and hands-on training, featuring leading world experts, practitioners, and theorists specializing in various aspects of scholarly communication. Some 30 courses will be offered—from the introductory to the cutting edge—on topics ranging from building an open and information-rich research institute, data across domains, and understanding metrics, to reproducibility and crowdsourcing. Courses will also be offered on online image and reputation management, peer review, and tools and technology, as well as a primer, scholarly communication 101. Courses are aimed at different audiences, including students, researchers, administrators, funders, librarians, and publishers, as well as other information professionals.
Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss and learn more about the latest trends in Open Access and data management, and gain expertise in new technologies in research flow, new forms of publication, new standards and expectations, and the new ways of measuring and demonstrating success that are transforming science and scholarship.

FORCE11 (Future of Research Communications and E-Scholarship) is a global community of researchers, students, librarians, publishers, funders and scholars interested in the future of scholarship. FSCI provides access to needed training, skills development, and expertise on effective ways of working in and navigating the evolving research communication sphere.

For more information and to register for FSCI@UCSD, visit www.force11.org/fsci.