Introduction
This document serves as a planning framework for the DOSCU workshop to identify the milestone for a successful event in May 2024. As we progress, adjustments and refinements will be made to ensure alignment with the agreed-upon schedule and content by the organizing committee.
Project Title: Building a cohort of open scholarship trainers to boost adoption of DataCite open infrastructure services among the Consortium of Uganda University Libraries.
Project Type: Outreach Activities
Funder: DataCite – under Global Access Fund (GAF) – Euros 10,425
PI: Dr. Fredrick Kiwuwa Lugya
Beneficiaries: 35 Participants (librarians, ICT professionals, and research administrators) selected among Consortium of Uganda University Librarians (CUUL) membership
Project Goal: Over the course of two (2) months, a team of librarians at Busitema University plan to develop and deliver a five-day training of trainers’ workshop to a cohort of librarians, ICT professionals, and research administrators selected out of 76 institutional members of the Consortium of Uganda University Libraries (CUUL). This work will ignite a countrywide conversation on the benefits of open scholarship and open science and to increase awareness of integrating DataCite infrastructure services to make research discoverable.
Project Outcome: DOSCU participants will exhibit mastery skills to plan, prepare and deliver training on how to make research outputs open and discoverable using open infrastructure and services.
Project Objectives:
Objective 1: Within the first (1) month, the librarians will create a publically available educational resource kit consisting of training curriculum, guidelines for facilitating the training, training materials, and assessments on open scholarship, open science and DataCite open infrastructure services. The training materials shall be added on the learning management system and participants
enrolled into the workshop.
Objective 2: By the end of the two (2) months, deliver a five-day training to 35 trainees (librarians, ICT professionals, and research administrators) selected out of 76 institutional members of the Consortium of Uganda University Libraries.
Workshop Learning Outcomes: The the end of the DOSCU workshop, the trainees should be able to:
- Communicate to their institutional administrators why libraries and their institutions cannot afford to ignore implementing institutional repositories to make their research outputs open;
- Explain how to go about using open infrastructure and services like Dspace and DataCite tools to make their research outputs open and discoverable;
- Understand how to teach and train librarians, ICT professionals, and research administrators to implement DataCite research discovery and exploration tools and services like DOIs, metadata, APIs in their institutional repositories;
- Become confident and have the knowledge to deal with difficult questions about making research outputs open and discoverable;
- Be able to plan institutional repository and DataCite training activities and be aware of the best practices in training design for online, face-to-face and hybrid events;
- Understand how to work with diverse audiences especially institutional administrators to attract funding towards DataCite activities;
- Know how to evaluate the impact of the training and implementing institutional repositories and DataCite open infrastructure and services.
WORKSHOP CURRICULUM – TOPICS AND CONTENT
Main Topics Outline
Module 1: Introduction to Open Access
- Scholarly Communication Process
- Open Access: History and Developments
- Rights and Licenses
- Advocacy for Open Access
- Open Access Research Impacts
Module 2: Open Access Infrastructure
Module 3: Interoperability and Retrieval
- Resource Description for OA Resources
- Interoperability Issues for Open Access
- Retrieval of Information for OA Resources
Module 4: Resource Optimization
Module 5: DataCite Open Infrastructure
Module 6: Training and Train-the-Trainer