Scholarly Communication and Academic Library

Scholarly CommunicationAcademic Library strategy and

action plan

Olga Koz, MLS, DM Candidate

Content

• Developing strategy• Taking action• Assessing outcomes

StepsStrategy

Environmental scan

Identify stakeholders’

needs & viewpoints Form a team of experts

Vision/goals/outcomes

Action plan Assessment Modify strategy

Viewpoints, attitudesLibrarian

Publisher

IS Scholar

Researcher

Scan environment and assess needs

Ithaka S+R surveys of academics and faculty members

Action Plan

Integrate Engage & outreach

Advise and Assist

Educate Change culture

Integrate

Use SC framework to teach information literacy. Prepare active research participants not just

consumers. Embed research into learning & develop data and research literacy curriculum

Integration or interoperability with other repositories, content management, library &

learning management systems, navigational paths

Dismantle boundaries, rather than ad hoc collaborations. University wide conferences and publications. Scholarly Communication Committee

Integrate IR into a research workflow

Engage

UNC library publishing service

• Build a community (profiling,

best cases, online forum)• Collaborate or be a partner in teaching about research & publishing• Outreach (1X1 meetings, committees, faculty meetings, student orientations)

Academicsocial networksaltmetricsSciVal Experts

Valued added IR services

Visibility of IR Mandates, workflow,

normativeculture Dashboard of usage, news & SM coverage of research Warm calls vs. cold calls Funder doesn’t have IR or

DR Disciplinary vs IR Easy deposits & multiple

deposits Deposit on behalf of a

researcher RMS, CVs, SciVal, ORCID, PubAlert

SEOptimization (GoogleScholar)

Host researchers web pages Consulting on author’s

rights, OA publishing and IR

Advise & Assist

• Publishing/OA Author’s rights

resources. OA Impact factors

Journal Metric Compare DOAJ list with citation indexes (JCR, ScimagoJR Scopus SNIP)

Data & citation management

Scholarly identity (ORCID)

• Depositing/IR & SR

SHERPA/RoMEOFind publishers that allow authors to deposit into IRPubMed CentralThe National Institutes of Health’s free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. NIH Public Access Policy requires that any articles resulting from NIH-funded research be submitted to this open access repository. Other repositories SHERPA-JULIETUse this resource to determine if your funder requires that you submit articles based on your funded research to an open access repositoryAPI for easy deposit SWORDBibApp –research gateway & expert finder

Educate Use various media to keep

academic community informed about new SC models, OA publications & tools Marketing campaigns such as OA Week (3rd week of October)

Organize & be a part of symposiums, panels, seminars, podcasts (faculty interviews), participate and archive materials from them

Molly Ali (OA advocate)

Examples of courses, classes, & workshops

Data documentation, data sharing, and many facets of research data

management for doctoral students Subject repositories & IR (DataBib & DOAR) -for liaisons

librarians Develop a data management and scholarly communication

curriculum forgraduate students (1 credit special course) NIH Public Access How to select a journal for publication - for early

career researchers and students Research in the network world (building scholarly

identity, collaboration, altmetrics Dissertation (from LR to IR)

Culture

Change culture of scholarly

communicationCreate need or sense of urgency

Key players, early

adopters, champions

Stories and role models

Change rewards

Symbols, norms

Sharing

openness

Knowledge based trust

Integritytranspare

ncy

values

• Values & assumptions

Assessment Number of SC

consultations, presentations, seminars and other outreach and educational events related

Number and types of deposits in IR

Number of participants in educational and outreach programs on scholarly communications

Percentage of faculty depositing in IR or publishing in OA journals

Number of publications edited or published at a research university (OA model)

IR usage Citation index (impact

factors) Scholar ratings

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