ROLE OF SUBJECT LIAISON LIBRARIANS Scholarly Communication and Publishing Issues Jennifer Laherty, Digital Publishing Librarian, IUScholarWorks: Indiana University Libraries: [email protected].
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ROLE OF SUBJECT LIAISON LIBRARIANS Scholarly Communication and Publishing Issues Jennifer Laherty, Digital Publishing Librarian, IUScholarWorks: Indiana University Libraries: [email protected] 1: YOUR EAR TO THE GROUND your faculty, their disciplines • Faculty • research interests and projects • published works • student works • regular face to face meetings • consider an environmental scan, see UMinn project: https://wiki.lib.umn.edu/ScholarlyCommunication/SurveyPartOne • Discipline • digital publishing initiatives in the field • society collaborations experience says . . . • subject librarian = revolution point • humanities scholars • some, not ready – feel threatened by the loss of unique identity • some, really ready – particularly newer and interdisciplinary fields: communication & culture dept., informatics • social science scholars • SC issues don’t resonate with some scholars because of established disciplinary solutions • departments and their projects • publications, theses, experimental student/faculty projects • graduate student experience in publishing for future generational knowledge experience says . . . • keep trying; keep talking and exploring • time and money are big factors • you will be ready • what are the selling points to engage HSS faculty? • collaboration • content enhanced by technology • societal demand; intrinsic value to opening research • societies and associations engaging in new forms of dissemination to keep their organizations relevant and viable • citation counts? • library and technology partners are good! • focus on unique content and expertise • Open Folklore: http://openfolklore.org/ 2: PEOPLE TO HELP scholarly communication team (or are you it?) • your colleagues; ask questions • instruction on copyright and open access topics • training • digitizing • notable projects in the field • campus happenings: • mandate for depositing research • faculty governance support • provost support • office of research administration connections • university press collaborations • if you’re it: be sure to stay attuned to SPARC experience says . . . • i’m your partner • we make up solutions as we go • versions are hugely important to researchers • understand limitations of preservation • copyright will always be a part of every conversation 3: KNOW YOUR LIBRARY’S SERVICES what is the library trying to accomplish? • leader in campus publishing • capturing faculty published scholarly output • official copy of record of digital dissertations and theses • launching new scholarly initiatives • hosting software for journals, conferences, monographs • copyright education • these are faculty issues • librarians can be a partner, educator, facilitator, servant, etc. – but we can’t own these issues and the solutions by ourselves what can be supported? • develop software or use existing solutions • know the limitations of out of the box software • digitization • rights checking experience says . . . • copyright issues will appear • existing software can’t do it all • institutional repository software can only be stretched so far • faculty want collaborative digital workspace • grants are tricky – sustaining project after the $ • keep it simple scholarly communication resources • SPARC – The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition: http://www.arl.org/sparc/ • Scholarly Kitchen Blog: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/ • Society for Scholarly Publishing: http://www.sspnet.org/ • ACRL ScholComm email discussion list: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/issues/scholcomm/ scholcommdiscussion.cfm • US Copyright Office: http://www.copyright.gov/ humanities resources • Association for Computers and the Humanities: http://www.ach.org/ • NEH Office of Digital Humanities: http://www.neh.gov/odh/ • Digital Humanities Summer Institute: http://www.dhsi.org/ humanities OA publishers • Alliance for Networking Visual Culture: http://scalar.usc.edu/anvc/ • Open Humanities Press: http://openhumanitiespress.org/ • digitalculturebooks: http://www.digitalculture.org/ • Synergies, Canada’s Social Sciences & Humanities Research Infrastructure: http://www.synergiescanada.org/ social science resources • SSRN, Social Science Research Network: http://www.ssrn.com/ • Directory of Open Access Repositories: http://www.opendoar.org/ • RePEc Research Papers in Economics: http://repec.org/ • PROL: Political Research Online: http://www.apsanet.org/content_3905.cfm • Open Folklore: http://openfolklore.org/ • anthropology • government repositories abound • Directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.doaj.org/ social science OA publishers • National Academies Press: http://www.nap.edu/ • RAND Corporation: http://www.rand.org/ • OAPEN, Open Access Publishing European Network: http://www.oapen.org • HSRC Press, South Africa: http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/ QUESTIONS Jennifer Laherty, Digital Publishing Librarian, IUScholarWorks: Indiana University Libraries: [email protected]