Scholarly Communication Toolkit: Everything you need to know from copyright to advocacy

Continuing Education class held at SCC/MLA in Austin, TX on October 17, 2010.This class is a condensed version of a two-day conference held in Albuqueruqe, NM in March 2010. The conference was specifically geared to knowledge management professionals at institutions with or applying for the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award. The class is now directed to health science librarians from all types of institutions. The class is a toolkit that aims to educate participants on the essential concepts surrounding scholarly communication and to generate local implementation and advocacy. The class is divided into sections on scholary communication background and basics; copyright; novel uses of institutional repositories and data management; NIH Public Access Policy; advocacy and communication; and culminates with a discussion on next steps for the profession.This work was supported in part by Award Number R13LM010054 from the National Library of Medicine. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Library of Medicine or the National Institutes of Health