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Roles for Academic Libraries in Supporting
Open Scholarship
Brian Rosenblum
Charles University, October 26 2009
Open Access
Digital, online, free of charge and free of
most copyright and licensing restrictions
(Peter Suber)
Eliminates technical, economic and legal
barriers to access and use
Goal is to maximize usage, impact, value
and progress of research
OA has an ethical rationale, plus technical,
economic, research, and other rationales.
“To what extent should the
institutions that support the
creation of scholarship and
research take responsibility for
its dissemination as well?”
-Karla Hahn
Association of Research Libraries
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
Scholarly Communication Initiatives at KU
Institutional Repository
(KU ScholarWorks)
Digital Publishing Services
Education, Outreach, Advocacy
*New*: Open Access Policy - June
2009
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
Open Access Repositories
Authors self-archive
Discipline or
institutionally-based
Metadata harvested
by search engines
and indexing
services
Registry of Open
Access Repositories:
http://roar.eprints.org/
KU ScholarWorks
http://www.ku.edu/~scholar
Open Access Journals
Peer reviewed
Various funding
models
Directory of Open
Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org
4382 journals
Libraries as Publishers
“Rapidly becoming the norm…” (ARL)
Production support for local journals
new electronic journals & conversion of print back
issues
Emphasis on access and visibility, local
control, preservation
provide low-cost services by supporting
open access models and leveraging library
and campus IT resources
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
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did
KU Digital Publishing Services
https://journals.ku.edu
Some Journals at KU
Software Platforms
•Journals@KU (OJS)
• http://journals.ku.edu
•KU ScholarWorks (D-Space)
• http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu
•eXtensible Text Framework (XTF)
Supports indexing, querying, display of XML documents (TEI and
EAD)
http://etext.ku.edu
Open Journal Systems
http://pkp.sfu.ca/
JOURNALS
AND SERIAL
PUBLICATIONS
American Studies*
Biodiversity Informatics*
Center for East Asian
Studies Publication Series
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
(September
2009)
American Studies
1111
14,521
Latin American Theater
Review
1614
37,217
Biodiversity Informatics
26
1,631
Journal of Dramatic
Theory and Criticism
612
7180
Biographical Dictionary of (monograph in
11,307 (Since
Kansas Artists
KU ScholarWorks) Aug 2006)
Some next steps…
Establishing workflows and policies,
organizational funding to sustain program
Improve OJS training
Statistics (usage, submissions, citations)
Editorial advisory board meeting
Host an “editors’ forum” in October
Expand website with more resources on
publishing issues
Seek to participate in info literacy and
educational opportunities on campus.
Roles for Libraries in Education, Outreach,
Advocacy
Advise faculty in their roles as instructors, authors,
editors, publishers
Shape campus discussions of NIH and other funding
agency policies
Maintain scholarly communication websites
Organize workshops on copyright issues and digital
scholarship
Advocate through university governance and
administrative channels
Pay attention and be engaged
Educate and train other librarians and students
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
https://documents.ku.edu/policies/governance/OpenAccess.htm
Other Policies in U.S
National Institutes of Health
$28 Billion in biomedical research funding
Peer-reviewed research must be deposited in PubMed
Central
Harvard University (Faculty of Arts and
Sciences)
Faculty grant university permission to distribute
scholarly articles, including deposit in OA repository
Stanford, MIT, University of Oregon
UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING
University Publishing In A Digital Age
http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/university-publishing
Talk About Talking About New Models of Scholarly
Communication
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.108
ARL: A Bimonthly Report: Special Double Issue on
University Publishing
http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br252-253.shtml
OTHER 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
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?
Brian Rosenblum
Scholarly Digital Initiatives Librarian
University of Kansas
[email protected]