Scholarly Communication And Collection Development Librarians: Getting The Conversation Started

Scholarly Communication and Collection Development Librarians: Getting the Conversation Started

Karen Fischer The University of Iowa Libraries November 6, 2008

Agenda oundations reas of Expertise ethods of Education/Training hallenges Ahead & Next Steps

Defining Scholarly Communication  Scholarly Communication means the formal

and informal processes through which research results and other scholarly work are evaluated, disseminated to other researchers and scholars, students, policy makers and the public.

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Publis her

= Users

Librari es

Stages : the Road to a Scholarly Communication Program Awareness Understanding Ownership Activism Transformation Ogburn, Joyce. Defining and Achieving Success in the Movement to Change Scholarly Communication. Library Resources & Technical Services, April 2008.

cholars must be the new face of the effort to change the scholarly communication system and focus on how the present system estricts access to their

What Matters To Scholars? hat matters to Researchers and Scholars? ccessibility ost ights

Why Scholars Publish To make an impact / have an

effect on their field To build a reputation To engage with other scholars To fulfill institutional expectations (get tenure, promotion, etc.) Professional advancement (another position, grants) To make money, become famous

Areas of Expertise Author rights/Copyright Economics of publishing Alternative publishing Repositories

Author Rights/Copyright

What are Author Rights? Automatic © for original work Copyright - bundle of rights (1) to reproduce the work; (2) to

prepare derivative works; (3) to distribute copies ; (4) to perform publicly; (5) and to display publicly; Faculty, graduate students and researchers own © to their journal articles and books, unless the sign

Author Rights

hy retaining rights is important hat rights to retain ow to retain rights

How to Retain Rights An author can negotiate rights

transfer with the publisher Edit the publishing agreement Apply an Author’s Addendum Creative Commons Check Publishers’ self-archiving policies [SHERPA/RoMEO]

Economics of Publishing Volume of information Prices Bundling/aggregating

content Mergers/acquisitions

Serial Expenditures in ARL libraries and the CPI, 1986-2006

Serials Expenditures

Consumer Price Index

Serials Purchased

Sticker Shock $21,582.26

-Journal of Comparative Neurology -Mitsubishi Galant $1,300,000

-Elsevier Science Direct annual cost -5 bedroom, 5 bathroom mansion in Dallas TX

Alternative Publishing

pen Access ybrid models ibraries as Publishers

Digital Repositories urpose of repositories: To create a place for author self-archiving To archive non-standard scholarly products To collect, disseminate, and provide persistent and reliable access to scholarship

Digital Repositories Challenges – Institutional Repositories Engaging faculty and students in IR

content submission Complicated publisher policies on what can be deposited Copyright issues Faculty reservations about trends in open access Faculty from different disciplines perceive and value IR services differently.

Digital Repositories “Perhaps most important to the viability of IRs, however, were the faculty who found that the IR could solve a particular information problem they faced in the everyday practice of scholarship.“

Palmer, Carole L., et al. Identifying Factors of Success in CIC Institutional Repository Development - Final Report -

Methods of Training Attend the ARL/ACRL Institute

on Scholarly Communication Create a public website on scholarly communication

Methods of Training Develop a Departmental

Assessment Instrument An information seeking exercise Helps selectors get to know their department in depth Opens the door to discussions with faculty Can help identify materials for institutional repository

Methods of Training evelop “talking points” and “slide banks” resent forums or workshops to library staff such as: Author rights/Copyright NIH Public Access Policy Institutional repositories

Methods of Training evelop brochures on: Copyright NIH Public Access Policy

Overview Showcasing your website or services related to scholarly communication

Methods of Training

ublish a newsletter or blog on scholarly communication topics Transitions & Hardin Scholarly Communication News Sources of news: LJ Academic Newswire Peter Suber’s Open Access News Scholarly Communications @ Duke Other blogs: UIUC Libraries, MIT, Scholarly

Kitchen (SSP) 

Challenges Ahead and Next Steps rea of OA and Alternative Publishing is evolving cholars remain uninformed about many of the issues regarding scholarly communication. etting a broad group to become engaged dialogue

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