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Policies, Services and Resources for
Increasing Access to KU Scholarship
Brian Rosenblum
Central Scientific Library
Kharkiv National University
May 27, 2010
5 ways KU Libraries is supporting open
access and digital scholarship
Outline of today’s talk
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way #4
way #5
New Roles for Academic Libraries
Providing stewardship over locally produced
scholarship and ensuring that it is accessible
to an external, worldwide audience
Working directly with faculty and research
units before and during the creation and prepublication stage of research
Incorporating scholarly communication
issues into information literacy programs for
faculty and students
5 ways KU Libraries is supporting open
access and digital scholarship
1. KU ScholarWorks
(institutional repository)
2. Digital Publishing
3. Education, Outreach, Advocacy
4. Open Access Policy (2009-10)
5. New organizational structures
and programs
(Center for Digital Scholarship)
Lawrence, Kansas
University of Kansas
Undergraduate Students: 23,000
Graduate Students: 6,000
Faculty Members: 2,300
Research Centers: 8 on Lawrence
campus
Federal Grants: over $200 million
Libraries: 4 million volumes
5 library buildings, one central
WAY #1
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY
KU ScholarWorks
http://www.ku.edu/~scholar
Managing our institutional repository
Technical issues are important, but
bigger challenges in running a
repository are
developing policies and workflows
marketing, outreach, education
rights and permissions
WAY #2
DIGITAL PUBLISHING
Digital Publishing Services
https://journals.ku.edu
Some Journals at KU
Software Publishing Platforms
•KU ScholarWorks (D-Space)
• http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu
•Journals@KU (OJS)
• http://journals.ku.edu
• http://pkp.sfu.ca/
•eXtensible Text Framework (XTF)
Supports indexing, querying, display of XML documents (TEI and
EAD)
http://etext.ku.edu
JOURNALS
American Studies*
Biodiversity Informatics*
Center for East Asian
Studies Publication Series
Folklorica: Slavic and East
European Folklore
Association
Journal of Dramatic Theory
and Criticism*
Kansas Working Papers in
Linguistics
Latin American Theatre
Review*
Slovene Linguistic Studies
Social Thought and
Research
KU Paleontological
Contributions
*=OJS journal
MONOGRAPHS
Biographical Dictionary
of Kansas Artists
Cartobibliography of
Maps in 18th Century
British and American
Geographical Works
Greetings from the
Teklimakan: A Handbook
of Modern Uyghur
Pontificalia: A Repertory
of Latin Manuscript
Pontificals and
Benedictionals
Niccolò Perotti's
Rudimenta Grammatices
Jesuatti Book of
Remedies
Some statistics
Title
# of Articles
Downloads
in April 2010
American Studies
1111
42,959
Latin American Theater
Review
1614
59,240
Biodiversity Informatics
26
1,661
Folklorica: Journal of the
Slavic and E. European
Folklore Association
200
6,363
Biographical Dictionary of (monograph in
12,351 (Since
Kansas Artists
KU ScholarWorks) Aug 2006)
Handbook of Uyghur
Language
(textbook)
1,264 (Since
Dec 2009)
Some next steps…
Statistics (usage, submissions, citations)
Host “Editors Forum”
Explore print-on-demand services, new ebook formats, multi-media
Pilot project with University Press
More training and education
info literacy and educational opportunities on
campus.
WAY #3
EDUCATION, OUTREACH,
ADVOCACY
Education, Outreach, Advocacy
Advise faculty in their roles as instructors, authors,
editors, publishers
Assist with rights and permissions
Maintain scholarly communication website
Organize workshops on copyright issues and digital
scholarship
Advocate through university governance and
administrative channels, shape discussions of OA
and data policies
Educate and train other librarians and students
Pay attention and be engaged
WAY #4
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
Open Access Policy
for University of Kansas Scholarship
Faculty members grant permission to the university
to make a copy of their scholarly journal articles
available in the open access repository, KU
ScholarWorks.”
PURPOSE: Provide the broadest possible access to
the journal literature authored by KU faculty.
Approved May 2009 (& February 2010)
https://documents.ku.edu/policies/governance/OpenAccess.htm
http://openaccess.ku.edu
WAY #5
NEW ORGANIZATIONAL UNITS
AND PROGRAMS
New Organizational Units and Programs at
KU Libraries
Center for Digital Scholarship
scholarly communication, digital
publishing, digital imaging, GIS, data, lab &
equipment
Institute for Digital Research in the
Humanities
Libraries have growing scholarly
communication programs which are
becoming core activities….
Librarians have a unique set of skills which
puts us at the center of campus teaching and
learning…
….how do we continue to build skills,
expertise, organizational and funding models
to sustain these programs?
Further Reading
University Publishing In A Digital Age (Ithaka)
http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/university-publishing
Talk About Talking About New Models of Scholarly
Communication (Karla Hahn)
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.108
ARL: A Bimonthly Report: Special Issue on University
Publishing
http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br252-253.shtml
Research Library Issues #269 (April 2010), "Strategies for
Opening Up Content”
http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/rli/
A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States
(Diane Zorich) / Council on Library and Information Resources
(CLIR)
http://www.clir.org
Library-based
publishing initiatives
Scholarly Publishing Office (Michigan)
http://spo.umdl.umich.edu
Center for Innovative Publishing (Cornell)
http://cip.cornell.edu
eScholarship (California)
http://www.cdlib.org/programs/escholarship.html
University of Kansas Digital Publishing
Services
http://kudiglib.ku.edu/epublishing.shtml
Other OA Resources
SPARC
http://www.arl.org/sparc/
OAISIS
http://www.openoasis.org/
European Open Scholar
http://www.openscholarship.org
SHERPA/RoMEO database
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
OA Advocacy Checklist for Research Libraries (PDF)
http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/lis/ticer/09carte/public
at/17Swan_paper.pdf
eIFL
http://www.eifl.net
дякую / Спасиба / Thank you
Brian Rosenblum
Scholarly Digital Initiatives Librarian
University of Kansas
[email protected]