OER+SC Project Report 2023 – OER + ScholComm

"This report provides background and present status on a collaboration that has resulted in an open textbook and a corpus of additional open teaching and learning materials scoped to scholarly communication topics. It concludes with next steps, calls to action, and our appreciation for everyone who supported us and partnered with us to do this work....

Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge is an openly-licensed introduction to scholarly communication librarianship and the issues that work often addresses. It has been  developed by the lead editorial team of Maria, Will, and Josh, with section editors and other contributors. The book will be published in print and digitally under a CC-BY-NC license by ACRL in 2023. While it was conceived as an open textbook of scholarly communication librarianship, we hope it will be a vehicle to increase instruction on these topics in LIS programs more generally, as well as serve as a resource for continuing education. The idea of the book was the cornerstone of our initial collaboration, and we’ve discussed it with a myriad of valued colleagues and mentors whose feedback helped to shape it...."