Session Number
7
Keywords
Scientific Publishing; Open Science; Open Access; Faculty-Library Partnership; Library Training.
Description
This paper aims to describe the collaboration of FEUP’s Library with faculty in the course unit “Publishing and Scientific Writing” for third-cycle students. It contributed to U.Porto Journal of Engineering, a new open-access journal of the Faculty of Engineering, indexed in DOAJ, OpenAIRE and Scopus. This study also reports the course unit’s lifecycle from its design, development and implementation as a face-to-face format until its present evolution to an online offer. Throughout the last decades, academic libraries have reinforced their educational role as active partners in teaching, learning and research activities within their institutions. In this course, FEUP’s Library is responsible for information literacy skills, strongly focusing on open science and open access publishing. Students attending will go through writing, peer-reviewing, correcting and publishing a scientific article in Open Access, using U.Porto Journal of Engineering in the OJS platform, combining a theoretical approach with real-life hands-on. The authors analysed quantitative data collected from different sources related to participation and interest in the course. The results show that the course unit corresponds to a real need of researchers, of which the growing demand and the positive feedback are pieces of evidence. In addition, students revealed high interest in the covered topics and an evident lack of Open Access and Open Science knowledge. This training unit is a much-succeeded library and faculty partnership contributing to promoting and increasing Open Access publishing among researchers. The University of Porto recognised it with an award that granted funding to support the transformation of the course to an online format, which would help solve the scale problem that the growing demand places to the present capacity of response.
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Library and faculty partnering to increase Open Access Publishing among researchers
This paper aims to describe the collaboration of FEUP’s Library with faculty in the course unit “Publishing and Scientific Writing” for third-cycle students. It contributed to U.Porto Journal of Engineering, a new open-access journal of the Faculty of Engineering, indexed in DOAJ, OpenAIRE and Scopus. This study also reports the course unit’s lifecycle from its design, development and implementation as a face-to-face format until its present evolution to an online offer. Throughout the last decades, academic libraries have reinforced their educational role as active partners in teaching, learning and research activities within their institutions. In this course, FEUP’s Library is responsible for information literacy skills, strongly focusing on open science and open access publishing. Students attending will go through writing, peer-reviewing, correcting and publishing a scientific article in Open Access, using U.Porto Journal of Engineering in the OJS platform, combining a theoretical approach with real-life hands-on. The authors analysed quantitative data collected from different sources related to participation and interest in the course. The results show that the course unit corresponds to a real need of researchers, of which the growing demand and the positive feedback are pieces of evidence. In addition, students revealed high interest in the covered topics and an evident lack of Open Access and Open Science knowledge. This training unit is a much-succeeded library and faculty partnership contributing to promoting and increasing Open Access publishing among researchers. The University of Porto recognised it with an award that granted funding to support the transformation of the course to an online format, which would help solve the scale problem that the growing demand places to the present capacity of response.