This hands-on course teaches researchers the skills and best practices they need to effectively manage their publications, scholarly identity, and professional reputation on the open scholarly web. The course draws on the curriculum from the newly developed AuthorCarpentry initiative, which adapts the successful instructional design principles of the global Data Carpentry community. The Carpentry approach to researcher training utilizes hands-on methods, live coding, case studies, authentic datasets, carefully designed learning outcomes, and formative assessment to provide a high-impact and immediately applicable learning experience.
The specific AuthorCarpentry lessons covered in the course include:
Persistent access for research outputs with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and associated metadata.
Establishing scholarly identity with Open Researcher and Contributor IDs (ORCIDs).
Enhancing scholarly reputations with ORCID and trustworthy scholarly sharing sites.
Using Markdown and GitHub to author for web and print.
Sustainable authorship with Markdown and Pandoc.
Management of open-citation data and references.
By the end of the course, participants will have applied command-line and open-source tools to retrieve their publication data in open formats. They will be able to associate the data with unique digital identifiers, including DOI and ORCID; integrate the data with trusted open scholarly sharing sites; and develop their own GitHub websites that include their publications lists and other author content.
Proposed level: Advanced beginner to intermediate. Participants should have basic proficiency with the Unix command line and experience installing select open-source software according to provided instructions.
Limits on participation: Each participant should have a laptop (Windows, Mac, or Linux) for hands-on exercises.
Intended audience: Researchers, librarians, and other professionals with some publishing experience.
