Subject: Journals and scholarly communication    
ECTS credits: 3
Language: Croatian    
Duration: 1 semester
Status: elective
Method of teaching: lectures, seminar, colloquium /e-learning
Prerequisite: none
Assessment: written exam, seminar and coursework

Course description:
Writing, editing and proof reading a scientific paper; Definitions of basic terms in scholarly communication, history of scholarly communication; Hierarchy of scholarly journals; Peer-review as quality control; Process of publishing a scholarly paper, instructions to authors, instructions to peer-reviewers; Structure of scholarly journal, structure of scholarly paper; Costs models of scholarly journals publishing; Peer-review in e-environment; Identifiers in printed and electronic publications; Scientometrics, Journal Citation Reports, Impact Factors; “Serial crisis”; Open access to scientific information; Copyright and scholarly communication; Licences.

Course objectives:
After this course students will be able to:
1. Explain the role of journals in scholarly communication
2. List and define editorial activities
3. Manage and evaluate pre-prints and post-prints
4. List, define, analyse and evaluate Open Access journals and repositories
5. Analyse and measure quality of scholarly journals
6. Explain copyright issues in scholarly communication

Quality check and success of the course:
Internal evaluation by teachers and students at the end of semester.

Reading list:
1. Harnad, S. Scholarly skywriting and the prepublication continuum of scientific inquiry. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad90.skywriting.html
2. Hebrang Grgić, Ivana. Open Access in Croatia : a study of authors' perceptions // INFuture2009 / Stančić, Hrvoje et al. (ur.). Zagreb : Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Universtiy of Zagreb, 2009. Str. 169-176.
3. Hebrang Grgić, Ivana. Open Access to scientific information in Croatia : increasing research impact of a scientifically peripheral country. Saarbrücken : Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011., dostupno i na http://darhiv.ffzg.hr/1397/
4. Horvat, A.; Živković, D. Knjižnice i autorsko pravo. Zagreb : Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada, 2009., str. 93-110 i str. 131-134.
5. IFLA position on copyright in the digital environment. http://www.ifla.org/V/press/copydig.htm
6. Odlyzko, A. The economics of electronic journals. http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-01/odlyzko.html
7. Petrak, J. Bibliometrijski pokazatelji u ocjenjivanju znanstvenog rada. // Liječnički vjesnik. 123(2001).
8. Šercar, T. Komunikacijska filozofija znanstvenih časopisa. Zagreb : Globus, 1988.
9. Upute za uređivanje i oblikovanje časopisa. http://public.mzos.hr/Default.aspx?art=5466
10. Zakon o autorskom pravu. //Narodne novine 167(2003), čl. 1-21.