SPARC and the Library Publishing Coalition Scholarly Communications Lunch and Learn Talk #10 Thursday, April 17, 2014 Office of Scholarly Communication & Publishing University Library System University of Pittsburgh CC BY 3.0

What is SPARC? Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition  A branch of ARL since 1997  An international alliance of 800+ academic and research libraries –SPARC North America (~200; includes most ARLs) –SPARC Europe –SPARC Japan

SPARC mission  advance open scholarly communication –Open Access to research –Open data –Open educational resources  works with stakeholders to: –expand research dissemination –reduce financial pressures on libraries

“ SPARC believes that faster, broader, and more open sharing of the outputs of the scholarly research process increases the impact of research, fuels the advancement of knowledge, and increases the return on research investments.”

SPARC’s Focus  Educating stakeholders about the scholarly communication system  Advocating policy changes that highlight the use of technology to advance schol comm & research dissemination  Incubating new business and publishing models that encourage openness for the benefit of scholarship and academe

SPARC Advocacy Information and positions on current legislation and policies at national, state, and campus levels Also: –Alliance for Taxpayer Access  Patient groups, physicians, researchers, educational institutions, publishers, health promotion organizations –The Right to Research Coalition  Student organizations

SPARC Resources  Guidance on issues and best practices: –OA Data Resource for Research Funders –SPARC Author Addendum –OA publishing funds –Open education speaker list –Primer on article-level metrics –Strategies for Sustaining Open Access  Webcasts on hot topics in scholarly communication  Educational materials: –How Open Is It –What’s New in Open Access  News on OA & scholarly communication activities (not just SPARC)

Library Publishing Coalition (LPC)  Community of academic and research library members in the US and Canada involved in publishing  The LPC is new: formed in 2012  Pitt is in small core of founding members  60 members today  Includes university presses but only those with administrative connection to library

LPC Mission and Vision  promote development of innovative, sustainable publishing services in research libraries to support scholars  advocate for library publishing services  articulate the value of library publishing services for faculty, students, and other stakeholders  share information among members  address training and education needs

LPC activities in planning  Annual Library Publishing Forum ✔  Directory of Library Publishing Services ✔  Conducting new research  Developing advocacy and awareness materials and programs to articulate the value of library publishing.  Providing training and learning opportunities  Data collection to track trends, needs, and developments  Explore collective purchasing arrangements  Develop collective marketing strategies that build exposure for library publishers.

Library Journal Publishing - benchmarking faculty driven journals student journals journals for external publishing partnersTOTAL Cornell California Digital Library Columbia Toronto Pitt Alberta Western U Va Tec91616 Indiana U Kansas Brigham Young93315 U British Columbia78015 Purdue Arizona53513 U Mass, Amherst Does not include the (49) titles on ULS-hosted Scholarly Exchange service, since the ULS is not the publisher of record for these titles. Source: Library Publishing Directory,

SPARC Open Access Meeting Kansas City, MO March 3-4, 2014 Library Publishing Forum Kansas City, MO March 5-6, 2014

Tim’s presentation Open Access publishing at Pitt: alignment with local and global OA policies  Overview of our publishing program  Importance of advocacy through national and international groups  How DOAJ and membership in OASPA helped shift our policies toward more open access

Lauren’s activities Presented on the Plum Analytics altmetrics widget at the SPARC Innovation Session. Presented a poster on the ULS’s e-journal publishing activities at the LPF

(a few of) Lauren’s Highlights  Erin McKiernan’s “Being Open as an Early Career Researcher”

Slide “What can I do?” by Erin McKiernan is licensed under CC-BY 3.0.

(a few of) Lauren’s Highlights  Erin McKiernan’s “Being Open as an Early Career Researcher”  Impromptu discussion on creating an “Open Access Pledge” site for ECRs.  The start of PKP’s online Library Publishing course  Enjoying the art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, just down the road from the hotel:

(a few of) Lauren’s Highlights: see the rest on Storify lpforum highlights

John’s activity  Presented on Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice  Discussed editorial quality for OA journals  Discussed PlumX and altmetrics activities

John’s highlights - OER  Open educational resources and open textbooks –Hot topic! –Seems like a natural fit –Faculty create these items already –Directly addresses student costs in higher education –Shouldn’t interfere with tenure, publication prestige

John’s highlights - DORA  San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment  Initiated by American Society for Cell Biology, editors, publishers (December 2012)  “Improving the ways in which the outputs of scientific research are evaluated” 

1 general recommendation  “Do not use journal-based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, as surrogate measures of the quality of individual research articles, to assess an individual scientist’s contributions, or in hiring, promotion, or funding decisions”

17 specific recommendations  Organizations supplying metrics –Provide access to data  Publishers –Don’t promote journals by Impact Factor  Research institutions –Scientific content of a paper, not the JIF, is what matters  Researchers –Change the culture!  Funding agencies –Consider value from all outputs and outcomes generated by research

John’s highlights - Meeting others  Kimberly Chapman, Repository Services Manager at University of Arizona  Adrian Ho, Director of Digital Scholarship, University of Kentucky, and author of this articlethis article  Gail McMillan, Director of Digital Research & Scholarship Services, Virginia Tech  Karen Meijer-Kline, Public Knowledge Project

Oh, and this...  Fiorella’s Jack Stack Barbecue, Kansas City, MO 

Faculty to Liaison Librarian: “Have you heard about some bill on public access to science and technology research? I think it was introduced by Mike Doyle, our U.S. Representative. Should we really be spending more money on this? I mean, most researchers in our field already have access to research papers, right?”

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