FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute -- appeal for help with broader dissemination

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Hi all,

As you may know, FORCE11 is a group of individuals and organisations working to improve scholarly communications and the necessary infrastructures. They are launching a new institute this summer to address one of the blockers in moving towards a more open scholarly ecosystem: the lack of training on open scholarship methods for researchers, librarians, and other stakeholders involved in producing and disseminating research. More at www.force11.org/fsci.

It's their first year, and they've been struggling to get word out beyond the inner circle of the 'open-interested'. They are appealing for help to get the word out more widely -- would you be able to share details of the new institute with your own communities, particularly to those not already aware of training resources for 'open'? Maybe it's even of interest to you.

I'm sharing below some details, and pre-prepared resources for twitter and mailing lists.

Many thanks,

Naomi

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A bit of background. Registration is open and, after an initial burst, has now slowed. We are at about 60% of the number we consider to be the mininum for a successful first year with the current arrangement of courses. We’d like to use the next two weeks (i.e. until June 18th) for a communication campaign. At that point we’ll reexamine where we are and see if we need to make changes in the way the lesser enrolling courses are organised. While there are some very strongly enrolling classes, there are also a number with 2 or 3 people in them.

We think that the main issue is that we need to get information about this inaugural offering out to the front line researchers--i.e. We’ve seen extremely strong enthusiasm from the type of people who attend the Force conference or research within the Scholarly Communication world. But we’ve had a harder time reaching those who define themselves primarily as “something else”--i.e. a biologist who wants to improve her data publication; a historian who is worried about open access; a librarian who wants to know more about scholarly communication librarianship; publishing executives; deans and administrators. When I tell people about it, they often say they are interested, but also that it is the first they’ve heard.

You can help us by pushing out some of the messages provided below to Twitter, Facebook, and, especially, professional listservs and communities. We also have a poster you can print of for tables at professional meetings and other promotion material at https://www.force11.org/fsci/promotion. Especially with a cross-disciplinary Institute like this, it is important to ensure that we get information beyond the usual "Scholarly Comm" channels into the places where front-line researchers, professionals, and students can be found.

Feel free to adapt them to the interests and tastes of your colleagues. Or to focus more specifically on your particular course or topic. Because we are also learning about how best to get information about FSCI out to the community for use in future years, we'd greatly appreciate you letting us know what you've done by ccing fsci...@force11.org on emails or including @force11rescomm or the hashtags #fsci or #force11 on tweets and other social media.

You know your audience best and we really appreciate your help. If you have suggestions for how we can improve our communication or messaging, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Please act on this this week. It is fairly essential that we get our numbers up or that we begin to rationalise the offerings. We’ve always expected this first year to be the most difficult, but the better we do now, the faster we will end up having a steady income stream to support future Force11 activities.

Thanks very much!

-Dan O’Donnell (for the FSCI Steering and Communications Committees)

By Twitter

A fast way of getting word out to your networks is via Twitter. Here are some generic tweets (all of which fit within the 140 character limit) you can use. Feel free to customise for your own course and/or network; let us know if any work particularly well!

By Listserv/Facebook group

Even better than Twitter is a post to your disciplinary or professional listserv or Facebook Group (we'd appreciate it if you would cc fsci...@force11.org so we know where we've been advertised).

For publication to a Facebook group, here's a link to a post you can share (feel free to edit or adapt it if you prefer): https://www.facebook.com/daniel.odonnell/posts/10158842720595215

For mailing to a mailing list, here's a sample Subject and Message Body:

Subject:

The latest trends in communicating your research: Force11 Scholarly Communication Institute (July 31-Aug 4, 2017)

Body:

The latest trends in communicating your research: Force11 Scholarly Communication Institute (July 31-Aug 4, 2017)

The Force11 Scholarly Communications Institute (FSCI) is a week-long intensive summer training program in the latest trends in research and data publication (www.force11.org/fsci). Come learn how you can increase your impact and profile from leading Scholarly Communication researchers.

When: July 31 - August 4, 2017
Where: University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
Early bird: Register before July 8, 2017 to receive a discount

The FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute at the University of California, San Diego is a week long summer training course, incorporating intensive coursework, seminar participation, group activities, lectures and hands-on training. Participants will attend courses taught by world-wide leading experts in scholarly communications. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss the latest trends and gain expertise in new technologies in research flow, new forms of publication, new standards and expectations, and new ways of measuring and demonstrating success that are transforming science and scholarship.

COURSES OFFERED AT FSCI 2017

·       Inside Scholarly Communications Today

·       Scholarship in the 21th Century

·       Building an Open and Information-rich Research Institute

·       Research Reproducibility in Theory and Practice

·       When 'Global' is Local: Scholarly Communications in the Global South

·       Starting Out: Skills and Tools for Early Career Knowledge Workers

·       Data in the Scholarly Communications Life Cycle

·       Open Humanities 101

·       Data Citation Implementation for Data Repositories

·       Open Annotation Tools and Techniques

·       Communication and Advocacy for Research Transparency

·       Opening the Sandbox: Supporting Student Research as a Gateway to Open Practice

·       Opening Up Research and Data

·       The Sci-AI Platform: Enabling Literature-Based Discovery

·       Perspectives on Peer Review

·       Altmetrics: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Headed Next?

·       Technology and Tools for Academic Library Teams

·       Building Public Participation in Research

·       Tips, Tools, and Tactics for Managing Digital Projects in Research and in the Classroom

·       Software Citation: Principles, Usage, Benefits, and Challenges

·       AuthorCarpentry: A Hands-on Approach to Open Authorship and Publishing

·       Applying Design Thinking and User Research to the Scholarly Communication Problem Space

·       Identifying How Scientific Papers Are Shared and Who Is Sharing Them on Twitter

·       Using the Open Science Framework To Increase Openness and Reproducibility in Research

·       Using Wikidata in Research and Curation

·       Using New Metrics: A Practical Guide to Increasing the Impact of Research

·       How Universities Can Create an Open Access Culture

·       Walking the Line Between Advocacy and Activism in Scholarly Communications

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

FSCI is intended for anybody who is interested in the developing new world of Scholarly Communication: researchers, librarians, publishers, university and research administration, funders, students, and post docs. There are courses for those who know very little about the current trends and technologies, as well as courses for those who are interested in more advanced topics. Our courses cover Scholarly Communication from a variety of disciplinary and regional and national perspectives. We offer courses that will be of interest to the scientist, the social scientist, and the humanities researcher. There are courses for those who manage, organise, and publish research as well as for the researchers themselves and end-users.

http://WWW.FORCE11.ORG/FSCI

https://www.force11.org/fsci/promotion




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Jennifer McLennan
Head of External Relations

+44 1223 855375 (o)
+44 7903 288847 (c)

http://elifesciences.org

Nominations are open for the eLife Early-Career Advisory Group. Step up, or nominate someone who's passionate about the future of research communication and discovery. They're a wonderful and energetic group that's full of ideas! 

eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd is a limited liability non-profit non-stock corporation incorporated in the State of Delaware, USA, with company number 5030732, and is registered in the UK with company number FC030576 and branch number BR015634 at the address First Floor, 24 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1JP.

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