Graduate Copyright Education as Professional Development
Start Date
3-16-2020 4:20 PM
End Date
3-16-2020 5:00 PM
Keywords
copyright, professional development, collaboration, information literacy, graduate students, doctoral students, intellectual property, education
Description of Proposal
When our copyright education program initially began, it was tied only to copyright clearances in dissertations and theses. However, it became apparent that it would be beneficial to graduate students to learn more about copyright as it intersects with academia in broader ways than just ensuring copyright compliance in dissertations. Graduate students need to understand copyright in order to effectively collaborate in their research, publish, and teach.
At the same time, our university graduate office began developing a graduate professional development program. This professional development program encourages students to participate in programs that will help them succeed in their careers, and a number of office on campus provide workshop offerings on topics ranging from literature reviews to independent development plans.
In response to the development of this program, we developed a workshop sequence that starts with copyright basics and extends to traditional and open models. Offering copyright education within the graduate professional development program has several benefits:
1. Students have an incentive to attend copyright education workshops because they count for credit towards a professional development certificate.
2. Students learn about copyright before the final stages of their dissertation work, allowing them more time to plan for copyright permissions if necessary.
3. Students seek out classes on a broader array of copyright topics than they do as a part of their dissertation review process.
4. Librarians have had the opportunity to collaborate with other campus offices to develop more interdisciplinary copyright education workshops, and have been invited to teach new audiences.
This poster will present the evolution of the copyright program, an overview of the scaffolded workshop curriculum, and the benefits of participating in a graduate professional development workshop program.
Graduate Copyright Education as Professional Development
When our copyright education program initially began, it was tied only to copyright clearances in dissertations and theses. However, it became apparent that it would be beneficial to graduate students to learn more about copyright as it intersects with academia in broader ways than just ensuring copyright compliance in dissertations. Graduate students need to understand copyright in order to effectively collaborate in their research, publish, and teach.
At the same time, our university graduate office began developing a graduate professional development program. This professional development program encourages students to participate in programs that will help them succeed in their careers, and a number of office on campus provide workshop offerings on topics ranging from literature reviews to independent development plans.
In response to the development of this program, we developed a workshop sequence that starts with copyright basics and extends to traditional and open models. Offering copyright education within the graduate professional development program has several benefits:
1. Students have an incentive to attend copyright education workshops because they count for credit towards a professional development certificate.
2. Students learn about copyright before the final stages of their dissertation work, allowing them more time to plan for copyright permissions if necessary.
3. Students seek out classes on a broader array of copyright topics than they do as a part of their dissertation review process.
4. Librarians have had the opportunity to collaborate with other campus offices to develop more interdisciplinary copyright education workshops, and have been invited to teach new audiences.
This poster will present the evolution of the copyright program, an overview of the scaffolded workshop curriculum, and the benefits of participating in a graduate professional development workshop program.
What takeaways will attendees learn from your session?
Attendees will:
- examine examples of copyright education workshops across a variety of topics, from teaching with copyrighted materials to open access publishing
- identify how copyright workshops can fit into a larger graduate professional development program
- consider the benefits of the professional development model for copyright workshops, which is also applicable to other graduate information literacy topics