Scholarly Communications Workshop 2007 The Liaison Role in Scholarly Communication Trish Rosseel, SFU Lynne Woodruff, UVIC

Scholarly Communications Workshop 2007 Effective Liaison with Faculty  Know your audience You already do! This is an opportunity to learn more about them.  Focus on change makers U of T Libraries Newsletter, Spring 2007U of T Libraries Newsletter,  Tap into the issues that are most relevant to them

Scholarly Communications Workshop 2007 Faculty Are Engaged in…  Attracting funding  Completing research  Publishing their results From Kate Corby’s review:

Scholarly Communications Workshop 2007 Faculty Want To:  Publish their findings in the highest prestige journal possible  Reach a large audience  Make a favorable impression on potential funders From Kate Corby’s review:

Scholarly Communications Workshop 2007 Why Faculty Publish  Communicate results  Advance career  Personal prestige  Gain funding  Financial reward Swan, A. (2006) The culture of Open Access: researchers’ views and responses, in Jacobs, N., Eds. Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects, chapter 7. Chandos.

Scholarly Communications Workshop 2007 Why They Publish in OA  Free access for all readers  Faster publication time  Larger readership than subscription journals  Articles will be more frequently cited  Concerned about cost of traditional journals to institution

Scholarly Communications Workshop 2007 Why They Don’t  Unfamiliar with OA journals in their field  OA journals in their field have low impact / low prestige  Smaller readership  Couldn’t identify OA journal to publish in  Would publish in OA journal if it overcame their perceptions about its shortcomings

Scholarly Communications Workshop 2007 Group Exercise  Break into groups of 2  Each person spend 5 minutes sharing an experience you’ve had talking with faculty about scholarly communication  Each person note one key challenge or success of your partner to share with larger group

Scholarly Communications Workshop 2007 How Does It Fit With Liaison?  Liaison activities are integral part of services we provide supporting research and instruction at university  Scholarly communication is a good fit with our other liaison responsibilities  We already have a close working relationship with faculty  We meet with them on a regular basis

Scholarly Communications Workshop 2007 How Does It Fit With Liaison?  We are experts in accessing information  Library liaisons are best positioned to serve as resource persons on campus for scholarly communication  We need to move from awareness of scholarly issues towards advocacy  What you can do to get involved!

Scholarly Communications Workshop 2007 Educate Yourself  Find out about staff training opportunities  Get involved in peer training  Attend workshops  Keep up with current issues

Scholarly Communications Workshop 2007 Educate Faculty  Arrange training with experts  Sponsor colloquia or conference McGill  Create web sites George Washington University  Create blogs Boston College

Scholarly Communications Workshop 2007 Work with University Groups  Find out who else on campus is taking a leading role in scholarly communication issues and establish contact with them  Faculty departments  Faculty Library committees  University Senate Committees

Scholarly Communications Workshop 2007 Present Options/Strategies  For increasing findability of articles  For selecting open access journals or open access friendly publishers  For self-archiving in IRs  For publishing open access journals  For maintaining author’s rights/questioning author agreements  For making most effective use of $$$

Scholarly Communications Workshop 2007 Exercise: Elevator Speech  Individually, develop a script: 2 minutes in length Suitable for elevator ride with faculty On any topic discussed today  Pitch your speech to the person next to you and ask for feedback/suggestions  Share insights with larger group

Scholarly Communications Workshop 2007 Resources to Support You  Opportunity Assessment Instrument  Scholarly communications handout  SPARC web site  Your colleagues!  Workshop facilitators