Celebrating Open Access Week:
Scholarly Communication Initiatives
in Academic Libraries
STEPHANIE DAVIS -KAHL
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
OCTOBER 23, 2014

GOALS
Understand the variety of
scholarly communication
initiatives across a variety
of institutional types and
sizes
Hear about examples of
collaboration and
engagement with faculty
and students
Learn about connections
between scholarly
communication,
information literacy,
collections and other
services
Initiatives in…
 Open Access
 Data
 Educational Resources
 Services
 Upcoming Events

What is Scholarly Communication?
“ S C H O L A R LY C O MMU N I C AT I O N R E F E R S TO
THE COMPLEX SYSTEM OF CREATION,
DISSEMINATION AND USE OF THE PRODUCTS
OF SCHOLARSHIP, BOTH FORMAL AND
INFORMAL, AND THE SOCIAL, LEGAL AND
ECONOMIC ISSUES AND PRESSURES AT PLAY
ON THE SYSTEM. ”
COPYR IGHT & S CHOLAR LY COMMUNI CAT ION S E R VI C E S ,
UNIVE R S I TY OF KANSAS L I B RAR I E S

OPEN
ACCESS
Open-access (OA)
literature is digital,
online, free of charge,
and free of most
copyright and licensing
restrictions.
Peter Suber

http://spark.parkland.edu/

http://obiemaps.oberlin.edu/
http://ohio5.openrepository.com/ohio5/handle/11282/293015

http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/

DATA
The Data by ken fager
https://flic.kr/p/8z7z4z

Project TIER – Haverford College
http://www.haverford.edu/TIER/
Read more about Project TIER on the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Blog: http://1.usa.gov/1wkChKw

Data Services at James Madison University
Data Management Bootcamp for Graduate Students
“A collaborative event that features experts from across the state, the two-day
bootcamp allows students to hear from, question, and network with other graduate
students and data management professionals.”
http://guides.lib.jmu.edu/data

Data Spaces
http://libguides.calpoly.edu/datastudio
http://erl.barnard.edu/

More on Data…
SPECIAL ISSUE ON RESEARCH DATA, THE JOURNAL OF
LIBRARIANSHIP & SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION
[HTTP: / / JLSC-PUB.ORG/ JLSC/CFP.HTML]
DATA MANAGEMENT PRECONFERENCE
AT ACRL 201 5 IN PORTLAND, OR
ACRL EDITED VOLUME ON DATA LIBRARIANSHIP,
SPRING 201 5
[HTTP: / /BIT.LY/ 1VPPBG5 ]

OPEN
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
“OER are teaching, learning,
and research resources that
reside in the public domain or
have been released under an
intellectual property license
that permits their free use
and re-purposing by others.
Open educational resources
include full courses, course
materials, modules,
textbooks, streaming videos,
tests, software, and any
other tools, materials, or
techniques used to support
access to knowledge.”
The William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation
Why is Open Education Important?
Roundtable discussions by Giulia
Forsythe, https://flic.kr/p/dkSZe4

OER Initiatives
http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/books/
Women, Gender,
Sexuality Studies:
Introduction to
Women, Gender and
Sexuality Studies
www.probabilitycourse.com/
http://guides.library.umass.edu/oer

More OER Initiatives
 Temple University
 http://sites.temple.edu/alttextbook/
 Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville
 http://www.siue.edu/its/oer/
 North Carolina State University
 http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/alttextbook
 BLAISE Consortium
 http://www.teaglefoundation.org/Grantmaking/Grantees/
OER Initiatives by State (SPARC)
http://www.sparc.arl.org/resource/list-oer-projects-policies

SERVICES
open by Mart,
https://flic.kr/p/htavL

University of Central Florida
http://library.ucf.edu/ScholarlyCommunication/ResearchLifecycleUCF.php

ORCiD at Texas A&M
ORCiD
Adoption and
Integration
(A&I) Program
Graduate
Students +
ORCiD ID
http://guides.library.tamu.edu/researcher_ids
Integration into
ETD submission
& management
system

Library Publishing
http://www.librarypublishing.org/
“Library publishing is
defined here as the set of
activities led by college and
university libraries to
support the creation,
dissemination, and curation
of scholarly, creative,
and/or educational works.”
Definition of library publishing adopted
by the LPC Organizing Committee, 2013

Digital Scholarship Initiatives & Publications
From Digital Commons @ Macalester:
“Thank you for visiting the site for Sears
Eldredge’s groundbreaking investigation of
the musical and theatrical performances
that occurred in Japanese prisoner of war
camps in Southeast Asia during World War
II, and the critical role they played in the
survival of Allied POWs.”
http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cap
tiveaudiences/

http://imageofresearch.omeka.net/

“Next Steps in the Next Generation Library: Integrating Digital Collections into the
Liberal Arts,” funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation
Main Site: http://digitalscholarship.ohio5.org/
Projects: http://www.ohio5.org/portal/
Blog: http://digitalscholarship.ohio5.org/blog/

Upcoming Events
Intersections of Information Literacy & Scholarly Communication webinar series:
• How to Start the Conversation in Your Library (December 10, 1 pm CST)
• Incorporating Scholarly Communication into Liaison Job/Position Descriptions
For more information, see the Events section of the Open Access Directory
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Events
(January 15, 1 pm CST)
• Integrating Copyright Into Information Literacy Instruction (February 18, 1 pm CST)

Resources
 Definition of Scholarly Communication, Copyright and Scholarly Communication Services, University of Kansas
Libraries, https://lib.ku.edu/services/scholarly-communication
 Definition of Open Access, Peter Suber, http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
 Definition of Open Education Resources, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,
http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education/open-educational-resources
 University of Massachusetts Amherst Open Education Resources Guide, http://guides.library.umass.edu/oer
 Data Management Bootcamp for Graduate Students, http://www.cdrs.lib.vt.edu/events/data-management-bootcamp.html
 Yasmeen Shorish. (2012) “Data Curation Is for Everyone! The Case for Master's and Baccalaureate Institutional
Engagement with Data Curation.” Journal of Web Librarianship, 6:2. [http://commons.lib.jmu.edu/letfspubs/1/]
 Richard Monastersky. (2013) “Publishing frontiers: The library reboot.” Nature 495: 7442.
[http://www.nature.com/news/publishing-frontiers-the-library-reboot-1.12664]
 Mark Dahl. (2014) “Data-Driven Liberal Arts: the Library Role.” Academic Commons.
[http://www.academiccommons.org/2014/07/24/data-driven-liberal-arts-the-library-role/]
 Definition of Library Publishing, Library Publishing Coalition, http://www.educopia.org/programs/lpc/lpc-adopts-definition-
library-publishing-statement-values-and-goals
 ARCS Conference: http://commons.pacificu.edu/arcs/
 OpenCon: http://www.righttoresearch.org/act/opencon/
 FORCE15: https://www.force11.org/meetings/force2015
 Library Publishing Forum: http://www.librarypublishing.org/events/lpforum15
 ACRL 2015: http://conference.acrl.org/
 ScholCommCamp @ ACRL 2015: http://www.arl.org/events/upcoming-events/event/128#.VEkD4YvF_cE
 ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow: http://www.ala.org/acrl/issues/scholcomm/roadshow
 ACRL Scholarly Communications Toolkit: http://acrl.ala.org/scholcomm/

Thank you!
Thanks to the l ibra r ians who shar ed
informat ion about the i r proj e c t s and
ini t ia t i ve s , and thanks to Ma r got Conahan
and Al l i son Pa yne of ACRL.
STEPHANIE DAVIS -KAHL
SDAVISKA@IWU.EDU
@STEPHDK
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