This may be of interest for our DH community also interested in Digital Scholarly Communication

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Courses  Posted and Registration Open for the 2^nd Annual FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute (FSCI2018).  The Institute will again be hosted by the University of California, San Diego from July 30 – August 3, 2018.  See more information here www.force11.org/fsci/2018.

FSCI2018 offers participants 5 days of training and skills development in new modes of research communication.  All levels of participants, from absolute beginners to advanced at scholarly communication, will find courses of interest.  If you are a scholar/researcher, librarian, institution administrator, funding agency manager, publishing administrator/editor, data manager, student, or anyone else who participates in scholarly communication, you will benefit from attending FSCI.

FSCI is organized by FORCE11 (The Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship) in collaboration with the University of California San Diego Library.  Force11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers, and research funders who study and facilitate new developments in knowledge creation and communication. Membership is open to all who share this interest!

FSCI2018 Course list:

• Inside Scholarly Communications Today
• Reproducible Research Reporting and Dynamic Documents with Open Authoring Tools: Toward the Paper of the Future
• Collaboration, Communities and Collectivities: Understanding Collaboration in the Scholarly Commons
• Community, Collaboration, and Impact: Open Scholarly Communication for Humanities and Social Sciences
• Building an Open,Fair and Sustainable Information-Rich Research Institution
• Data in the Scholarly Communications Life Cycle
• The Basics and Beyond: Developing a Critical, Community-Based Approach to Open Education
• Research Reproducibility in Theory and Practice
• The Art of Transforming a Research Paper into a Lay Summary 
• Open South: The Open Science Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean 
• Pre- and Post-Publication Peer Review: Perspectives and Platforms 
• Detection of Questionable Publishing Practices: Procedures, Key Elements and Practical Examples 
• Open Data Visualization - Tools and Techniques to Better Report Data 
• Public Humanities as Scholarly Communication 
• Integrating Wikidata with Your Research and Curation Workflows 
• How Much Does Open Access Cost? A Hands-on Approach to Tracking and Analysing Article Processing Charges 
• Publishing Reproducible Code and Data: A Hands-on, Bring-Your-Own-Code Course
• Opening the Research Enterprise: Partnering to Support Openness in Grant-Funded Faculty Research
• Implementing Software Citation
• Mentoring the Next Generation of Open Scholars: Approaches, Tools & Tactics
• Structural Biology: A Prototypical Case for Publishing Big Data

Contact:  Stephanie Hagstrom fsci-info@force11.org