Cataloging, Classification, and Discovery of Scholarship

A tiny portion of the Library of Congress card catalog. Photo by tedeytan, shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Topics will include:

• Guest: J. Silvia Cho
• How cataloging/indexing affects discovery
• Relationship between discovery and access
• Biased and discriminatory subject headings, and their effects

Assignments for July 19:

• See forum for guidance for Wednesday.

Readings for July 19:

BOAI. (2022). The Budapest Open Access Initiative: 20th anniversary recommendations.

HuMetricsHSS Team. (2022). Walking the Talk: Toward a Values-Aligned Academy: Executive Summary.

Foreword (pp. vii-x only) in Bonn, M., & Furlough, M. (Eds.). (2015). Getting The Word Out: Academic Libraries As Scholarly Publishers. Association of College & Research Libraries.

Pooley, J. (2021). Collective funding to reclaim scholarly publishing. Commonplace, 1(1).

Office of Science and Technology Policy. (2022, August 25). Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research.