Abstract
Academic libraries play a pivotal role in promoting open science, providing essential services for opening research and education. The library has also a key role in increasing awareness of open educational resources and practices. Editori is an open journal service at the University of Helsinki designed with an educational focus, providing simultaneously a contribution to the rising trend of university-based and library-based publishing. We show how this service, based on Open Journal Systems (OJS), can be applied as a pedagogical tool for teaching scholarly publishing skills to university students. In 2019 Helsinki University Library initiated a pilot project together with the Working Seminar of Doctoral Programme in Philosophy, Arts and Society of the Arts Faculty of the University of Helsinki. We outline expected pedagogical outcomes from the project, relating to scholarly communication skills, report feedback from teachers and students and discuss implications for future service development. In sum, students and teachers found the Editori platform intuitive and easy to use, although the learning curve for course leaders was considered steep in the initial phase.
Highlights
There is growing interest in teaching scholarly publishing skills to university students1
Based on the experiences we can say that a digital publishing platform is a useful pedagogical tool for teaching scholarly publishing and we recommend it for other teaching programs
Our pilot project is part of a larger new trend where students and young researchers are learning to edit and publish open access journals, using digital publishing platforms. These kinds of journals can be called course journals or classroom journals and they should be distinguished from studentled journals where the students act independently to create an journal
Summary
There is growing interest in teaching scholarly publishing skills to university students. Editori is a platform for publishing open journals and for learning practices in scholarly publishing. This article provides an overview of the Editori service as a pedagogical tool to teach scholarly publishing in a classroom journal. The emphasis in our article is on a pilot project, which took place in early 2019. This project provided an important opportunity for the library to collaborate with faculty in a new way. We can say that the Editori platform is suited to teach scholarly publishing, and the pilot can be extended to other teaching programs. The concept can be developed in the direction of teaching open access publishing practices, which was not the focus in the pilot project
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