Scholarly Communication: A Changing Landscape, An OA Week 2011 Webinar

SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION: A CHANGING LANDSCAPE

Molly KeenerScholarly Communication LibrarianWake Forest University

http://slidesha.re/KeenerOAWeek11 Open Access Week 2011

We’re not in Kansas anymore…

Access Changes

A reaction to the restricted flow of information

A reaction to traditional models of control

Technology enables us to do things we couldn’t before

Research doesn’t fit into traditional models

Why develop new models?

Generally enabled by technology

Works both inside and outside of traditional models

Supported by a variety of business models

Commonalities

What do we mean by open?

Open to contribution & participation

Open & free to access

Open to use & reuse with few or no restrictions

Open to indexing & machine readable

Open access Public access

Open data Open science Open humanities Open education Open books Open peer review…

Open movements

Open Access

Viable, interesting model

More than just publishing – archiving, too!

Profitability is a sign of success

NIH Public Access Policy

Do you have NIH-funded faculty? How many?

Grab publications for your IR if you can Search PubMed to estimate institutional

compliance rates Great hook for talking to students Probably (hopefully!) old hat to faculty, but

still important Formal support programs open doors for

other conversations

NSF Data Management Plans

Be involved in conversations on campus

If not happening, start them

Bigger than just the library or research office or IT or research department

Say it with me: Infrastructure!!

Institutional Changes

Institutional Repositories

Not all golden

Copyright awareness & management key

Break the bonds of “scholarship”

Full, or empty?

Institutional policies

Private & public, large & small

Departmental, college/school, institutional

Opt-in vs. opt-out

Peer support: COAPI

Publisher responses

Individual Changes

Who is the copyright holder? The creator is usually the initial copyright

holder

If two or more people jointly create a work, they are joint copyright holders, with equal rights

With some exceptions, work created as a part of a person's employment is a "work made for hire" and the copyright belongs to the employer

What is copyright?

Copyright is a bundle of rights:

The right to reproduce the work The right to distribute the work The right to prepare derivative works The right to perform the work The right to display the work The right to license any of the above to third

parties

How do we get copyright?

Copyright exists from the moment of creation, and lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years.

You used to need a little c in a circle, and to register your work with the copyright office, but you don’t anymore.

Copyright just happens.

Managing copyright

Copyright can be transferred only in writing

Licensing allows specific rights to be retained: Authors keep copyright and license other rights

(e.g., first publication) Publishers take copyright and license rights back

(e.g., reproduction, derivatives)

Addenda can be added to publication agreements to open the door for negotiating rights retention

Open Access publishers usually do not require full transfer of copyright

Negotiation

If you don’t ask, you don’t get You don’t always get, but it doesn’t hurt

to ask Think about what you need Read the agreement Consider addenda Work with your editor or publisher

Know what you want to accomplish…the publishers do!

Cultivating Change

Because they are the producers and the consumers of the products of scholarly communication

Because they edit journals, sit on editorial boards, provide peer review, and are officers of scholarly societies

Because they are the movers behind many new models of scholarship (often because of their own frustrations with the traditional model)

Because they can make change in ways that libraries struggle to do on their own

Why engage with faculty?

Discuss scholarly communication issues (especially author rights) with graduate students and work with your Graduate College.

Engage with the research office(s) on campus about funder open access policies.

Share knowledge of copyright, legislative issues, and other current events that may have direct impact.

Bring faculty advocates from other campuses to speak.

Give faculty examples of changes and new models from other similar disciplines.

Let’s engage!

Include scholarly communication in subject librarians jobs & service models

Negotiate for OA archiving rights when publishing

Consider supporting OA author fees with a campus fund

Educate faculty about copyright and author rights

Have an institutional repository? Get more people involved – catalogers, subject librarians, etc.

Provide technical and organizational infrastructure for publishing journals and other content

What else can we do?

Take home points

An action, not an obligation

Be prepared for misinformation

Know campus culture

Be curious!

Attribution & Access

Slide 2: “Kalvesta, KS Tornato” http://www.flickr.com/photos/98224963@N00/3464638770/

Slide 7: “Hope” http://www.flickr.com/photos/crystalina/6327766/

Slide 24: “Curiosity” http://www.flickr.com/photos/emiliodelprado/225161313/

Slide 25: “Slow Down…You Clown!!” http://www.flickr.com/photos/fatboyke/2668411239/

This work is partially adapted from works originally created for the ACRL Scholarly Communication 101 Road Show, and was last updated on October 24, 2011 by Molly Keener. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/.

Molly Keenerkeenerm [at] wfu.eduhttp://slidesha.re/KeenerOAWeek11