The FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI) will take place at UCLA August 5 - 9, 2019.
Be sure to
take advantage of the early-bird discounts which end this Friday, June 21.
This recent post
on Scholarly Kitchen places FSCI in the context of the existing training opportunities within Scholarly Communication, showing that FSCI enables and serves those that are done asking
why, and are now asking how we move towards an Open Knowledge culture together.
FSCI2019
offers participants 5 immersive days of training and skills development in new modes of research communication. All levels of participants, from beginners to advanced, will find courses of interest. There are 27
Courses to choose from (check out the Course
Abstracts), with topics designed to appeal across disciplines. We also have an exciting agenda of
plenary events (see list below), and
Speakers and Instructors are coming from 6 continents, including experts in scholarly communication from many communities of practice. The diversity of perspectives provided by the instructors and attendees is one of FSCI’s key strengths, allowing for comprehensive
exploration of the issues in class and beyond. We hope you’ll add your voice to the conversation, and broaden your perspective on the evolving world of scholarly communication!
PLENARY EVENTS
Monday, August 5
9:00 am - 9:30 am - Welcome Introduction - Palisades Ballroom
Welcome Speakers:
- Ginny Steel, Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian, UCLA
- Joe Bristow, Distinguished Professor of English and Chair of the Academic Senate, UCLA
First thing on Monday morning we will all meet to kick off the Institute. Expect a short introduction, basic logistics information, run over the week's schedule and a brief overview of the courses.
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm - Lightning Talks - Palisades Ballroom
Chair/Moderator: Daniel S. Katz, Assistant Director for Scientific Software and Applications NCSA, University of Illinois
This session will consist of reviewed 5-minute talks by FSCI participants. These short talks are meant to present something the speaker is passionate about, related to scholarly communications. Talks may be about new technology that might change our lives
or vanish without a trace, tell us about a policy that has made a difference somewhere, rants about how the scholarly communications world should be, and other topics. The talks will inspire us to think and to discuss things that make an impact on scholarly
communications.
Tuesday, August 6
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Do-a-Thon - Palisades Ballroom
Chair/Moderator: Steve Diggs, Technical Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
Building off the concept of a hackathon, a do-a-thon is a work-sprint where people from different skill sets work together and collaborate on different challenges and projects. Sign up forms will be posted on the website in early July.
Wednesday, August 7
8:30 am - 12:00 pm - Plenary Session Panel - What if Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society had never existed? Learning from the successes beyond the North Atlantic - Palisades Ballroom
- Gimena Del Rio Riande (Moderator), Researcher, Investigadora Adjunta CONICET in Argentina
- Dan O’Donnell, Professor of English, University of Lethbridge
Speakers from around the globe will be presenting in this centerpiece plenary session
Much of today’s debate around open access and scholarly communication in Northern America and Europe centers around how well plans developed in one part of this “North Atlantic” region might work in another, or, usually as an afterthought, in the “Global South”.
In this session we want to turn this on its head. What would scholarly communication be like if our origin myth did not start in the UK’s Royal Society in London in 1665? Let’s imagine a world where Phil Trans never existed and we instead had developed our
systems from the ideas underpinning the success stories of scholarly communications infrastructures and systems from Latin America, Asia and Africa, from beyond the English-speaking world, and from communities not traditionally considered as “scholarly”.
Thursday, August 8, 2019
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm - “Moving the Needle” Roundtable - Palisades Ballroom
Speakers:
- Ginny Steel, Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian, UCLA
- Alison Scott, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication, UCLA
- Tom Olijhoek, Molecular Biology Researcher, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- Cameron Neylon, Professor of Research Communication, Curtin University
Engage in a discussion with a panel pulled together to discuss some of the highest-level recent developments to “move the needle” towards open research and publishing. Virginia Steel, The UCLA Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian, and Alison Scott,
the Associate University Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication, will discuss the University of California’s negotiations with Elsevier to secure a read and publish contract; Tom Olijhoek will discuss the European Union’s “Plan S” which requires
state-funded research output to be Open by 2020; and Cameron Neylon will discuss recent results evaluating how universities are implementing Open Access globally. Who is doing this well? What is driving change, and in what direction? What will these changes
mean for the scholarly communication ecosystem? Come with questions and opinions, and join the discussion.
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm - Battledecks: PowerPoint Karaoke - Palisades Ballroom
Chair/Moderator - Nicky Agate, Assistant Director of Scholarly Communication and Digital Projects, Columbia University
You will not want to miss this night!! Everyone is invited to take part in Battledecks (a.k.a. PowerPoint karaoke). How are your improv skills? Ready to perform in front of a live audience? Each contestant will be given 3-5 minutes to present ten slides on
a surprise topic, with the goal of telling a coherent story while (a) entertaining the audience and (b) keeping a straight face. Link to upload your slide decks will be posted in May.
Friday, August 9, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - Birds of Feather Topic tables - DeNeve Cafeteria Private Room
Co-Chairs:
- Anna Oates, Scholarly Communication and Discovery Services Librarian, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
- Dan O’Donnell, Professor of English, University of Lethbridge
Join your colleagues in the De Neve cafeteria to discuss School Comm topics in an informal setting. You'll be able to network and exchange ideas, insights, and experiences. If you are interested in leading a BOF table or have ideas of topics you wish to contribute,
please send an email to FSCI-INFO@force11.org.
Or you may add to the list that will be posted here June 17.
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - Keynote: Would including open scholarship in tenure guidelines move the needle?
Speaker: Juan
Pablo Alperin, Assistant Professor in Publishing and Co-Director of the Scholarly Communications Lab
Despite all the arguments and evidence in favor of open scholarship, years of advocacy, tool building, mandates, and policies, less than half of the research that is published is publicly available. But what if we could magically add open scholarship practices
as a valued activity in every salary review and tenure guideline document? Would such an explicit valuation of open scholarship for academic career advancement serve to move the needle? This presentation will challenge commonly held notions of the barriers
to change through evidence from the analysis of hundreds of salary review and tenure guideline documents from universities in the United States and Canada, and from results of a survey of faculty from the same universities. This empirical exploration of what
we say we value in academic careers, how we say it, and what we think our peers value may confirm your belief that review, promotion, and tenure processes affect the adoption of open scholarship practices—but it just won't be in the way you think they do.
Visit the FSCI
2019 website for more information.
Convinced? Then register
here and take advantage of the early-bird discount that ends on June 21st. We hope you can join us and we look forward to seeing you in Los Angeles!
All the Best,
The FSCI Team at FORCE11
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