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Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to let you know that my colleague Selenay Aytac, who is a member of the C.W.Post Library faculty, and I will be offering a new online course in the Fall 2010 semester, entitled Scholarly Communications and Electronic Publishing. This is a new significant course for those who are interested in current trends in libraries and the academic publishing industry. This course will also be offered to the Web-based Information Science Education (WISE) consortium of participating library and information science schools in the United States and Canada in the Fall 2010 semester. This course will look at the historic and current trends in the scientific, technical, and medical publishing (STM) industry. Particular emphasis will be given to understanding the changes that are occurring in the electronic dissemination of scholarly information and how libraries and other information organizations will need to manage these changes. Scholarly communication genre and its underlying components will be discussed. Some of the web-based scholarly collaboration and communication tools will be examined. The course is intended to be highly interactive, including online discussions as well as the analysis of several industry case studies. In order to provide you with a better understanding of the course, Selenay and I have prepared a podcast which you can view at the link below. The podcast can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXzVTCqXOK0. Please feel free to contact either me ([log in to unmask]) or Selenay ([log in to unmask]) for more information or for a copy of the complete syllabus. Kind regards, John J. Regazzi Professor and Director,Scholarly Communications and Information Innovation Lab Information and Computer Science Long Island University Brookville, NY Office: 516-741-2177 Cell: 516-474-6135