Scholarly Communications Workshop January 17-18, 2012. Virginia Tech Libraries Joy Kirchner Scholarly Communications Coordinator University of British Columbia.
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Scholarly Communications Workshop January 17-18, 2012. Virginia Tech Libraries Joy Kirchner Scholarly Communications Coordinator University of British Columbia Introductions Who I am Who are you? Eventually, Steve looked up. His mother was nowhere in sight and this was certainly no longer the toy department. Gary Larson Workshop Agenda • • • • • • • • • Introduction to Scholarly Communication Economics Copyright/Author Rights Open Access/Openness Engagement and Next Steps Delving into your Discipline Faculty Engagement Exercise Taking Action Program Plan Learning Objectives • Understand and describe scholarly communication as a system and system characteristics • Enumerate new modes and models of scholarly communication and ways libraries can support those models • Be able to select and cite key principles, facts, and messages relevant to scholarly communication plans and programs and initiate appropriate programs or pilot projects from those Structured interactive overview of the scholarly communication system including economics, copyright, and new models Foundational base in scholarly communication issues in order to begin strategic planning and action Scholarly Communication is … Scholarly communications covers a broad range of activities, including the discovery, collection, organization, evaluation, interpretation and preservation of primary and other sources of information, and the publication and dissemination of scholarly research.“ Mellon Foundation, 2008 AnnualReport, 30 The Scholarly Communications System incorporates and expands on the more familiar concept of scholarly publishing and includes both informal and formal networks used by scholars to develop ideas, exchange information, build and mine data, certify research, publish findings, disseminate results, and preserve outputs. This vast and changing system is central to the academic enterprise. – Lee Van Orsdel Scholarly communication is an umbrella term used to describe the process of academics, scholars and researchers sharing and publishing their research findings so that they are available to the wider academic community (such as university academics) and beyond. - Wikipedia Scholarly communication—the process used by scholars to share the results of their research—is fast approaching a crossroads. - Cornell Scholarly communications is the process by which scholarship is produced, supported, managed, and communicated, and includes all those involved in supporting the life-cycle of scholarship. Joy Kirchner University of British Columbia Reflection Exercise • What other questions have you heard that you would add to this list? • Select one of the questions – or consider ones of your own or that you’ve heard and brainstorm potential responses to faculty members or graduate students or administrators. • Reflect on how you might prepare yourself to answer the question in the future. Why should I care about Open Access? I can get access to everything that I need. Why doesn’t the Library just stop subscribing to large journal packages? I don't use or publish in costly journals. My field is more about book publication than journal publication so how do these changes in scholarly publishing & communication affect me? Is Open Access publishing serious scholarly publishing? Isn’t it for someone who can’t get published in a serious journal? I have to publish in the key peer-reviewed journals in my field in order to get tenure. My scholarly society is thinking about moving their journal to a commercial publisher. Are there other options? I just found out that my funding agency requires that I make the results of my research freely available online. I’ve also heard that some funding agencies require data management plans. What does this mean? Why should I pay attention to author’s rights? I post my article/book chapter on my website anyway. Can I use the graph I published in Journal X in a future publication? What’s the point of an institutional repository? I want my article to be open access but I really don’t think that the author should have to pay for it. Do you have any suggestions? As a Collections Librarian, I am getting increasing demands from our faculty to support institutional memberships for a number of Open Access collections. My Administrators also want me to support other new model initiatives like SCOAP3, DOAJ, ArXiv and The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. There is no room in the budget. What can I do to create a sustainable support model for scholarship? Why does the library continue to cancel journals that I need in my discipline even when budgets aren’t flat? What questions do you have? Introduction to the Scholarly Communications System Joy Kirchner University of British Columbia Library Scholarly Communications Workshop Virginia Tech January 17-18, 2012 Looking through the lens of libraries: Teaching Learning Research Major participants in the life cycle of scholarly publishing researchers authors foundations federal agencies colleges and universities scholarly societies publishers libraries taxpaying public higher education systems disciplinary practice publishing industry Internet culture scholarly societies IP/legal system research industry faculty rewards system (p&t) Iterations in the life cycle of scholarship Formulation Registration Certification Dissemination Preservation Publication (Registration Creation and Certification) Dissemination Editor Manuscript & © Academic Library Publisher Peer Reviewers Reformulation disruption: Economic model is unsustainable Pressure points Publication (Registration Creation and Certification) Editor © Dissemination Academic Library cost Publisher Peer Reviewers budget disruption: Web internet creation publication dissemination reformulation Scholars are beginning to exploit the power of the Web internet creation publication dissemination reformulation ED LIB PUB P-R What role, then, for publishers and libraries? How can we/they add value in a new system? Function Old System New System Formulation Alone or in laboratory with And… graduate students and colleagues With colleagues all over the web Registration Journal submission Book publication Conference presentation Working paper / Technical Report And… Blogs Disciplinary repositories Open notebooks Certification Publishers through peer review Universities indirectly through promotion and tenure And… Accuracy/good science review (PloS One) Open peer review Dissemination Libraries Publishers – journals and monographs Scholarly societies thru publications & conferences Abstract and Indexing Services And… Blogs Repositories Google and other web search engines Funding agency mandates Archiving And… Collaborations like Portico & Hathi Trust Disciplinary and institutional repositories Libraries disruption: Open Movement disruption: Open Movement • Open access to scholarship • Public access to taxpayer funded research • Social movements toward sharing and remix Transform Goal: Build capacity to integrate scholarly communications awareness and transform our work as academic librarians Questions? Comments? This work was created by Lee Van Orsdel and modified by Sarah Shreeves and Joy Kirchner last updated on Dec. 28, 2011. It is licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/