+ Scholarly Communication: An Introduction November 7, 2015 Charlotte Roh Slides 3, 4, 9, and 11 of this work were originally created and revised by Stephanie Davis-Kahl on May 30, This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of the license see

+ Basic Background Knowledge Traditionally… Publication is essential to faculty promotion and tenure. Faculty are not really being paid – the benefit is publication and citation, for tenure. You submit an abstract, article, or proposal. The editor (or editorial board) takes a quick look and decides it’s worth a review. Journal Your work gets sent out to a couple reviewers. They decide whether it’s good, needs revision, or is no good. Your fellow academics The journal tells you whether your work is accepted or needs revision and possibly re-review. It gets published. You and the Journal

+ IP/legal system publishing industry scholarly societies faculty rewards system (p&t) Internet culture disciplinary practice higher education research industry funders Scholarly Communication A system of systems

+ Policy Economic Social Technology

+ Economic Fox, J. “Academic Publishing Can’t Remain Such a Great Business” (November 4, 2015) BloombergView.

+ “This isn't just inflation at work: in 1994, journal subscriptions accounted for 51 percent of all library spending on information resources. In 2012 it was 69 percent.” Fox, J. “Academic Publishing Can’t Remain Such a Great Business” (November 4, 2015) BloombergView.

+ Social + Technology Van Noorden, R. “Online Collaboration: Scientists and the social network” (August 13, 2014) Nature News. Nature Publishing Group collaboration-scientists-and-the- social-network

+ Policy

FunctionOld SystemNew System FormulationAlone or in laboratory with graduate students and colleagues And… With colleagues all over the web RegistrationJournal submission Book publication Conference presentation Working paper / Technical Report And… Blogs Disciplinary repositories Open notebooks CertificationPublishers through peer review Universities indirectly through promotion and tenure And… Accuracy/good science review (PloS One) Open peer review DisseminationLibraries Publishers – journals and monographs Scholarly societies thru publications & conferences Abstract and Indexing Services And… Blogs Repositories Google and other web search engines Funding agency mandates ArchivingLibraries Museums And… Collaborations like Portico & Hathi Trust Disciplinary and institutional repositories Library publishers

+ Open Access Open access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. - Peter Suber Portions of this work were originally created by Lee Van Ordsel and revised by Stephanie Davis-Kahl and Ada Emmett on June 4, This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of the license see

+ Why open access? What is my role as a librarian?

+ When things are open access... Faculty get more visibility and citations. People can access the work.

+ In librarianship, “scholarly communication” includes… Advocacy Education Institutional repositories Library publishing Data management/curation Digital humanities/scholarship Altmetrics Check out the ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit to learn more.

+ University of Massachusetts Amherst Marilyn Billings Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian Laura Quilter Copyright and Information Policy Librarian Jeremy Smith Digital Projects Manager Charlotte Roh Scholarly Communication Resident Librarian

+ Library Publishing

+ Questions?

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+ Publishing & Power You submit a proposal with a few chapters. The editor (or editorial board) takes a quick look and decides it’s worth a review. Book publisher Your work gets sent out to a couple reviewers. They decide whether it’s good, needs revision, or is no good. Your fellow academics Puts together a package with marketing and sales projecting success It is approved with stakeholders Book publisher You are offered a contract. It gets published. You and the book publisher