2023
Open Science and strategies of science communication and dissemination
Name: Open Science and strategies of science communication and dissemination
Code: HIS13970D
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Design, History, Informatics
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: B-learning
Presentation
The contents seek to critically and problematically offer recent resources to transform a doctoral student into a science producer, a knowledge promoter and a creator. Always without losing critical spirit and ethical sensitivity.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
1. From the content point of view:
- Master the fundaments of Open Science and its implications;
- Know how to publish the results of research;
- Know how to defend intellectual property without inhibiting open access;
- Recognize the present and future importance of metadata and linked data;
- Adapt Science communication strategies to different audiences.
2. Competences:
- Plan and develop innovation in an interdisciplinary and transnational environment;
- Encourage the publication of results and scientific entrepreneurship in general;
- Develop awareness of the impacts of Science concerning innovation and social welfare;
- Recognize the importance of preserving data in the medium and long term;
- Develop teamwork skills;
- Enhance the use of diverse communication techniques;
- Enhance permanent updating and autonomy;
- Enhance the proper management of careers in competitive contexts that stimulate networking.
- Master the fundaments of Open Science and its implications;
- Know how to publish the results of research;
- Know how to defend intellectual property without inhibiting open access;
- Recognize the present and future importance of metadata and linked data;
- Adapt Science communication strategies to different audiences.
2. Competences:
- Plan and develop innovation in an interdisciplinary and transnational environment;
- Encourage the publication of results and scientific entrepreneurship in general;
- Develop awareness of the impacts of Science concerning innovation and social welfare;
- Recognize the importance of preserving data in the medium and long term;
- Develop teamwork skills;
- Enhance the use of diverse communication techniques;
- Enhance permanent updating and autonomy;
- Enhance the proper management of careers in competitive contexts that stimulate networking.
Contents
1. Fundamental concepts and topics on Open and Citizen Science and their emergent contexts.
2. How to publish?
2.1. The various types of scientific texts and disciplinary areas.
2.2. The peer review.
2.3. Indexed publications and impact factors.
2.4. The h-index.
3. The problems of opening and sharing data: from ethical issues to data intelligibility.
3.1. Copyright and creative commons licenses. Permanent links. The patents.
3.2. The metadata
3.3.The institutional repositories.
4. Open and shareable data requirements: from data management plan to preservation issues
5. Interoperability.
6. Information Representation and Retrieval
7. Data Security
8. Science communication strategies
8.1. The history of science communication and the challenges of modern societies
8.2. How to stimulate the intellectual pleasure of critical and scientific thinking?
8.3. Strategies to attract and build audiences: emotional design
2. How to publish?
2.1. The various types of scientific texts and disciplinary areas.
2.2. The peer review.
2.3. Indexed publications and impact factors.
2.4. The h-index.
3. The problems of opening and sharing data: from ethical issues to data intelligibility.
3.1. Copyright and creative commons licenses. Permanent links. The patents.
3.2. The metadata
3.3.The institutional repositories.
4. Open and shareable data requirements: from data management plan to preservation issues
5. Interoperability.
6. Information Representation and Retrieval
7. Data Security
8. Science communication strategies
8.1. The history of science communication and the challenges of modern societies
8.2. How to stimulate the intellectual pleasure of critical and scientific thinking?
8.3. Strategies to attract and build audiences: emotional design
Teaching Methods
Seminar / workshop formats with conferences will be articulated. Continuous evaluation will be performed: students should present texts and stimulate discussions in interdisciplinary groups and design/promote initiatives in the area of public engagement with science.
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