The document discusses Brandeis University's efforts around scholarly communications including open access initiatives like funding for open access publishing and developing open educational resources. It notes challenges such as faculty concerns about tenure and changing lesson plans, as well as the need to better promote their institutional repository and integrate ORCID identifiers. The library seeks to hire a scholarly communications librarian to help address copyright questions but most librarians do not have legal expertise.

2.  Scholarly communications refers to the process by which scholars and researchers
share and disseminate their scholarly research
 At Brandeis, we view scholarly communications as a variety of interconnected themes
Open Access
Open Educational Resources (OERS)
Marketing (and De-Mystifying) the Institutional Repository
ORCID
Copyright, Scholarly Publishing, Author Rights
Partnering with the University Press

3.  What we’re working on:
 Open access fund
 The purpose of the Brandeis University Library Open Access Fund is to extend the Library’s
support of scholarly publishing to faculty, staff, and students in established scholarly journals
that are not supported through subscriptions. Providing the requirements are met, the library
will provide 100% of the funding per article.
 Open access grant
 Our students have led the way with Open Educational Resources
 They’re asking for more affordable textbooks. We’ve set aside a grant to help faculty develop
their own textbooks.
 This has been challenging so far, we’ve received very few applications. And some with potential
copyright issues

4.  Tenure
 Our faculty is interested in Open Access, but also need to publish in certain journals to
make tenure.
 A large portion of our faculty will retire within the next few years, this is a potential
challenge to open access as these new faculty members will be concerned about tenure.
 Lesson planning
 Our faculty are beginning to hear the student demand for affordable textbooks, but still
wary of changing the materials they use to teach

5.  We have a lot of faculty and students producing quality work.
 Our students know very little about the IR.
 Faculty is hesitant to submit their work.
 We will be choosing a new host for the IR, marketing this tool essential to faculty
and students to showcase their work.
 Things we’re hoping for:
 Integration of Faculty Profiles
 ORCID integration.
 Campus administration is on board for an ORCIDs membership
 New faculty will have ORCIDs

6.  Most of our librarians are not lawyers!
 We receive many copyright questions in regards to publishing in general.
 We do not currently have a dedicated scholarly communications librarian or copyright
expert on staff

7.  Kayla Whitehead
 E-Resource Specialist- Brandeis University
 kwhitehead@brandeis.edu