There are many ways that academic librarians are engaging with their communities around issues of open access and scholarly communication – collaborations with faculty, students and administration are key to understanding user perspectives and to building advocacy. This webcast will present examples of scholarly communication and open access initiatives at a variety of academic libraries across the country. Join us to learn how your colleagues are engaging with their communities around issues of author rights, open access, open educational resources, and more.
Learning outcomes:
+ 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
Presenter: Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Scholarly Communications Librarian and Associate Professor, Illinois Wesleyan University.
Celebrating Open Access Week: Scholarly Communication Initiatives in Academic Libraries
1. Celebrating Open Access Week:
Scholarly Communication Initiatives
in Academic Libraries
STEPHANIE DAVIS -KAHL
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
OCTOBER 23, 2014
2. 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
3. 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
4. OPEN
ACCESS
Open-access (OA)
literature is digital,
online, free of charge,
and free of most
copyright and licensing
restrictions.
Peter Suber
9. 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
10. 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
12. 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 ]
13. 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
15. 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
18. University of Central Florida
http://library.ucf.edu/ScholarlyCommunication/ResearchLifecycleUCF.php
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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/
23. “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/
24. 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)
25. 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/
26. 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
The ORCiD logo is a registered trademark and was
used with permission.
Editor's Notes
Connection between campus curricular database and IR
What do you think has engaged faculty the most re the IR?
A lot of different things – HI focuses on what’s important to faculty – as a service to increase visibility and impact
Showing evidence of use of materials in repository
As a land-grant institution, tying into that mission, sharing knowledge beyond campus borders – faculty at Iowa State there bc it’s a land grant, very ingrained in the culture, especially ag depts who are very community outreach focused
Matching IR discussions to mission of institution
Research I – impact of visibility
Matching talking points to mission of univ and faculty who have bought into mission and live it.
ACRL very interested in developing more opportunities around data management, data curation, data literacy
Examples of Student Work With Soup-to-Nuts Documentation
These recent senior theses are publicly-available in the Project TIER Dataverse. Developed and hosted by Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Dataverse is a platform designed to store and provide access to files and associated metadata for empirical projects. Along with the full-text of each thesis, you will find a complete set of files, constructed according to the specifications of our protocol, that documents the empirical results. With each thesis there is also a ReadMe file that explains how you can use the electronic documentation to replicate all of the data management and analysis required to generate the results reported in the thesis. (You must have access to Stata statistical software, version 10 or higher.)
In addition to Dataverse, the Haverford College Libraries provide access to senior theses using DSpace, the open source repository software jointly developed by MIT and HP. Haverford theses in economics are available on the DSpace platform.
Haswell, E. (2013). The Spanish sovereign debt crisis: The impact of politics on fiscal outcomes in subnational governments
Brooks, G. (2012). Leveling the playing field: Understanding gender disparity in gubernatorial elections and policies to combat it.
Haneman, P. (2012). NBA Referee Bias: Do Statistics Suggest a Home Court Advantage? Is there Favoritism toward Teams Facing Elimination?
Costanzo, Laura. (2010). A Ticket To The Olympics: An Assessment Of The "Olympic Effect" On Tourism
Takeaways:
Third year – no engagement with faculty when she arrived, her first semester – who has a stake in this outside the library – got office of research, campus it and intellectual property, the library, compliance together – NSF mandate driven. Need to support – that conversation and making the case for the library taking point led to followup conversation with all departmental IT staff – great place to discuss the scope and the possibilities and who can answer what questions on campus.
Then she talked to faculty and was able to tell them that IT and the library would help – everyone on board – strong foundation existed bc of initial discussions.
Outreach aspect key – how would I reach out to faculty, students, administration to engage in these conversations?
Three years later – going well, slow burn – UVA and VA Tech did boot camp online for grad students; JMU and others got involved – statewide cooperative to develop data management curriculum – lots of hands-on activities, software, learning how to create a database, etc. This year – lots of interest from faculty and administrators, more than last year; Yasmeen credits outreach efforts, higher awareness of OSTP memo and federal mandates. Virginia Data Management Bootcamp.
Who has a stake, and how to grow that involvement? Building partnerships in ongoing way, welcoming different partners into the efforts help spread the ownership of overall program
Pre-print in JMU repository – see email
Other examples in National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education’s Academic Commons site – in readings
Amherst College Press
Purdue University Press
University of Michigan – Mpubs
Grand Valley State University
University of North Texas
Many examples of different formats as well – conference proceedings, journals (both professional and student), ETDs, etc.
Forum after ACRL at Portland State University – registration is open to all
IL/SC webinars
EUI Omeka collection?
Other examples on browser
“The book tells the story of how music and theatre helped the 61,000 POWs who were sent to these camps survive their ordeal. It is a story that is not well-known to history and it is now being recovered. It is a story about how music and theatre and the other arts are absolutely essential to a society's life.
Taking advantage of the digital platform, the book incorporates the following interactive multimedia links into the text: image galleries where visual images not in the text may be found, audio excerpts from interviews with former POWs and/or realizations of original music written by the POWs, and video clips that investigate artifacts more closely.”