Dartmouth College Library COL 1 Scholarly Communication: Threats, Problems and Opportunities Presentation to the Council on Libraries Dartmouth College 6/9/04 Barbara DeFelice, Head, Kresge Physical Sciences Library Jim Fries, Head, Feldberg Business and Engineering Library Co-chairs of the Digital Library Content Working Group

Dartmouth College Library COL 2 Summary of Parts 1 and 2 Part 1: Threats and problems facing the scholarly communication system; how did we get here? Brief history, economic model, roles of major players: scholars, publishers, librarians Part 2: Innovations and Initiatives in Scholarly Communication Worldwide New economic models, Open Access movement, innovative, digital only scholarly research projects

Dartmouth College Library COL 3 Scholarly Communication: Part 3: Opportunities and Solutions A.What are faculty doing? B.What are publishers doing? C.What are other institutions doing? D. What can faculty, librarians and administrators at Dartmouth do?

Dartmouth College Library COL 4 What are faculty doing? Start new journals published by societies or academic institutions; SPARC Alternative Program is one supporter of this.SPARC Alternative Program –Examples: Michael Rosenzweig, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, and editor of Evolutionary Ecology Research. How he did it and why How he did it and why Donald Knuth, Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University and editor of the Elsevier published Journal of Algorithms, convinced the whole editorial board to start a new competing journal called Transactions on Algorithms published by the ACM His letter detailing his proposal to the editorial board to move the journal to a different publisher.His letter detailing his proposal to the editorial board to move the journal to a different publisher.

Dartmouth College Library COL 5 What are faculty doing? Insist on holding copyright –Taking Control of Intellectual Property Rights information from ARL SPARCTaking Control of Intellectual Property Rights Insist on being able to post their work on their own web sites Publish in alternative ways –e-Scholarship at UCe-Scholarship Decline editorial board positions of commercially published titles

Dartmouth College Library COL 6 What Publishers (commercial, society, university) are Doing Reacting to faculty interest in changing copyright ownership –Elsevier now allows authors to post preprints of their papers on their own websitesElsevier Reacting to the Open Access movement by adopting some of the principles –High Wire Press publisher of high quality medical and science titles, division of the university library, allows free access to all materials after 6 monthsHigh Wire Press Providing tools for local publishing which speed up process of submission and review –Berkeley Electronic PressBerkeley Electronic Press Providing a way for small societies and publishers to publish electronically and sell to consortia. – The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers

Dartmouth College Library COL 7 What are institutions doing? Scholarly communication web sites University of CaliforniaUniversity of California, Boston College, University of WashingtonBoston CollegeUniversity of Washington Institutional statements regarding particular publishers, events or new trends such as open access –Cornell, Harvard, MITCornellHarvardMIT PLOS membershipPLOS Scholarly communication seminars and symposia –University of Oklahoma, University of WashingtonUniversity of OklahomaUniversity of Washington

Dartmouth College Library COL 8 What institutions are doing, cont. Supporting institutional repositories –Projects such as digital theses and dissertations and other kinds of repositories using software services such as DSpaceDSpace –Institutional repositories are not substitutes for publishing but an additional scholarly communication service ARL Case for Institutional Repositories Digital archive created and maintained for locally created content (also called an institution's intellectual assets) such as dissertations, working papers, preprints Reasons to consider are : quantity of born digital scholarship, concern over control and dissemination of this material, concern for long-term archiving. Digital dissertations becoming a key part of institutional repositories Electronic Theses and Dissertations, OAIster, ETD ConferenceElectronic Theses and DissertationsOAIsterETD Conference

Dartmouth College Library COL 9 Conclusion What can and should be done at Dartmouth to better educate the broader campus community about these issues?

Dartmouth College Library COL 10 Scholarly Communication: Threats, Problems and Opportunities Acknowledgements: The members of the Digital Library Content Working Group helped us frame these topics, contributed to discussions of the issues, and developed some of the slides used in this presentation. John Cocklin Laura K. Graveline Lucinda M. Hall John R. James Margaret K. Sleeth Reinhart Sonnenburg