Eating your way to outreach Scholarly Communication Lunch Series University of California, San Diego Susan Starr, AUL Sciences and Scholarly Communication July 2006

Or…It’s Just Lunch!

Goal  Encourage faculty to become involved in changing methods of scholarly communication

Barriers, barriers, barriers  UC San Diego is … Large Dispersed Conservative Competitive Productive

Goal: Encourage faculty involvement  Objectives Raise awareness of scholarly communication issues Build a core of knowledgeable faculty Reach the “thought leaders” Position Library in a leadership role

Action Plans  Bring in provocative speakers to attract listeners  Bring in faculty, since faculty listen to other faculty  Food is always good…  Co sponsors will lend prestige So…. Let’s do a faculty lunch!

Menu planning  The Format Lunch time series Invited speakers Held at Faculty Club (not the Library) 5 lunches over 7 months Plenty of time (we hoped) for discussion

Menu planning  Topic Selection Consulted with our Library Committees Consulted with our colleagues Consulted with influential faculty and administrators  Advertising plan  Handouts, giveaways, etc.

Lunch is served Publish and/or Perish: Changes in Scholarly Communication

The Hor d’ouevre  Authorship & Attribution: Access & Attention: Trends in Scholarly Communication Blaise Cronin, Dean, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University

First plates  Electronic publication, changing the way you write Philip Bourne: Realizing the power of online publishing Carl Stahmer: Scholarship in the Age of Ephemerality: the A,V,C,D, and F’s of the Digital Humanities

First plates  Electronic publication, changing the way your work is disseminated and read Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President of Alexander Street Press, "Libraries, Publishers, Authors - what's next?" Lynne Withey, Director, University of California Press, "Digital Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Barriers and Opportunities"

Entree  Are we losing control? Scholarly publishing is a big business. Ted Bergstrom, Economics Professor, UCSB. "Some Economics of Scholarly Publishing: To Have and Be Had?”

Dessert  Your copyright is worth something, don’t sign it away Michael Carroll, Villanova School of Law, "Valuing and Managing Your Copyright in Scholarly Articles."

Reviewing the Dining Experience  234 participants 150 unique attendees  Average of 47 per session  Average attendee came to 1.56 sessions 97 ladder rank professors

Reviewing the Dining Experience

Lessons Learned  Food works  Good way to reach a core  Faculty come to hear their peers

What next?  Involve our “thought leaders”  Continue to co sponsor  Focus on a single issue  And remember….

It’s Just Lunch!