Academic libraries often define their administrative structure according to services they offer, including research services, acquisitions, cataloging and metadata, and so on. Scholarly Communications is something of a moving target, though. How are Scholarly Communications positions defined, what duties do they often include, and how do they fit within the library’s administrative structure? Some of the first positions devoted to Scholarly Communications required JD’s and focused on Author’s Rights, copyright and fair use. Yet other positions recently advertised group Scholarly Communications librarians within Digital Scholarship units, which not only create and maintain institutional repositories, they also publish electronic journals and offer services related to data curation. This presentation will quickly review the findings recently published in a SPEC Kit, findings which focus on ARL Libraries. The main portion of the presentation, though, will move beyond the SPEC Kit by concentrating on non-ARL Libraries, reviewing their relevant position descriptions and library organization charts, among other resources, to uncover common duties for Scholarly Communications librarian positions and the variety of administrative structures in which they work.
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1. Wm. JosephThomas March 15, 2013 The Structure of Scholarly
Communications within Academic Libraries
2. What do we mean by Scholarly Communications? the creation,
transformation, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge
related to teaching, research, and scholarly endeavors SPEC Kit
definition borrowed from the Scholarly Communications Group,
Washington University in St. Louis
3. SPEC Kit 332 Organization of Scholarly Communication
Services, November 2013 Surveyed ARL Libraries
http://publications.arl.org/Organization-
of-Scholarly-Communication-Services- SPEC-Kit-332/
4. Libraries Studied ARL Libraries 61 responses (48%) 46
Carnegie RU/VH 33 public 8 Carnegie RUH 6 public 6 Canadian ARL
members all public Public 45 / Private 15 Library of Congress
6. Leadership of Scholarly Communications ARL Libraries Single
Librarian Library Unit Two Or More Librarians Library Committee Not
Any Single Person or Group
7. Leadership of Scholarly Communications Non-ARL Libraries No
Yes-librarians Yes-faculty SC Committee? 0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Library Leader None Dept Two or More Single Lib
8. Admin Structure and Change ARL Libraries Non-ARL Libraries
AD or SC librarian Reports to Director orAD Little formal
assessment, but demonstrable outcomes 39 of 54 had change in
structure since 2007 SC,Admin, or Research Reports to Director,AD
or Provost (if Director) Little formal assessment 66% of positions
changed since 2007 (most of them in last two years)
9. Scholarly Communication Services Overview Outreach and
Educational Activities Inc.Authors Rights Hosting Digital Content
Inc. Institutional Repositories Digital Scholarship Support Inc.
OpenAccess Fund
10. Outreach and Educational Activities ARL Libraries 0 10 20
30 40 50 60 Authors: Funding Mandates Authors Rights Faculty: SC
Issues and Services Grad Students: SC Issues and Services
Undergrads: SC Issues and Services Events Campuswide SC Docs and
Whitepapers
11. Outreach and Educational Activities Non-ARL Libraries 0 10
20 30 40 50 60 70 Author's Rights Authors OA Group Events DMPs
Grads ETDs Not Offered Elsewhere Library
12. Hosting and Managing Digital Content ARL Libraries 0 10 20
30 40 50 60 Data Management Digitization Data Mining,
Visualization, GIS Institutional Repository Subject Repository
Support Campus ETDs
13. Hosting and Managing Digital Content Non-ARL Libraries 0 10
20 30 40 50 60 70 IR E-Journals Data Digitization Not Offered
Elsewhere Library
14. Other Digital Publishing and Support ARL Libraries 0 5 10
15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 New Forms of Publishing Publish E- Journals
OA Publishing Fund DH, E- Science Also mentioned: Production of
multimedia Assist with Lit Reviews Support Patent Research Assist
with DOIs
15. Digital Scholarship and Other Services Non-ARL Libraries
Also mentioned: Partner with Research Office, Legal Reserves, Fair
Use New faculty, grad orientation 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 New Forms
OA Fund Not Offered Elsewhere Library
16. Samples
17. Reflections Can libraries avoid being left out of the loop?
How to bridge gap across such a wide variety of library sizes? What
services to offer, strategically and sustainably? Perhaps a set of
Scholarly Communication Core Services?
18. Potential for Growth Shared Support for Expertise: ACRLs
Scholarly CommunicationToolkit ASERLs newVPO for Scholarly
Communication ARLs Developing a Scholarly Communication Program
inYour Library ULAC Scholarly CommunicationWorking Group
19. Potential for Growth Shared Support forTechnical
Infrastructure: Institutional Repositories Open Journal Systems
Dataverse
20. Scholarly Communications Core Services (?)
Program-Oriented, or Librarian Competencies? OpenAccess Copyright
and PublishingAgreements Research Support
21. Scholarly Communications Core Services (?) OpenAccess: Help
authors make their works open access (including deposit) Understand
variety of publishing models Copyright and PublishingAgreements
Research Support
22. Scholarly Communications Core Services (?) OpenAccess
Copyright and PublishingAgreements: Help patrons use copyrighted
materials fairly and legally Advise authors on their publishing
agreements Research Support
23. Scholarly Communications Core Services (?) OpenAccess
Copyright and PublishingAgreements Research Support: Help users
evaluate OA resources among their lit reviews Help authors comply
with funding mandates (including DMP)
24. Resources Radom, Feltner-Reichert, and Stringer-Stanback.
Organization of Scholarly Communication Resources, SPEC Kit
332.Association of Research Libraries , Nov. 2012. ACRL,Scholarly
CommunicationToolkit, http://scholcomm.acrl.ala.org/ ARL Office of
Scholarly Communication, Advancing Scholarly Communication,
http://www.arl.org/sc/index.shtml SPARC,The Scholarly Publishing
andAcademic Resources Coalition, http://www.arl.org/sparc/