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1 Policies, Services and Resources for Increasing Access to KU Scholarship Brian Rosenblum Central Scientific Library Kharkiv National University May 27, 2010

2 5 ways KU Libraries is supporting open access and digital scholarship  Outline of today’s talk  1. way #1  2. way #2  3. way #3  4. way #4  5. way #5

3 New Roles for Academic Libraries  Providing stewardship over locally produced scholarship and ensuring that it is accessible to an external, worldwide audience  Working directly with faculty and research units before and during the creation and pre- publication stage of research  Incorporating scholarly communication issues into information literacy programs for faculty and students

4 5 ways KU Libraries is supporting open access and digital scholarship  1. KU ScholarWorks (institutional repository)  2. Digital Publishing  3. Education, Outreach, Advocacy  4. Open Access Policy (2009-10)  5. New organizational structures and programs (Center for Digital Scholarship)

5 Lawrence, Kansas

6 University of Kansas  Undergraduate Students: 23,000  Graduate Students: 6,000  Faculty Members: 2,300  Research Centers: 8 on Lawrence campus  Federal Grants: over $200 million  Libraries: 4 million volumes 5 library buildings, one central

7 WAY #1 INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY

8 KU ScholarWorks http://www.ku.edu/~scholar http://www.ku.edu/~scholar

9 Managing our institutional repository  Technical issues are important, but bigger challenges in running a repository are  developing policies and workflows  marketing, outreach, education  rights and permissions

10 WAY #2 DIGITAL PUBLISHING

11 Digital Publishing Services https://journals.ku.edu https://journals.ku.edu

12 Some Journals at KU

13 Software Publishing Platforms KU ScholarWorks (D-Space) http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu Journals@KU (OJS) http://journals.ku.edu http://pkp.sfu.ca/ eXtensible Text Framework (XTF)  Supports indexing, querying, display of XML documents (TEI and EAD)  http://etext.ku.edu http://etext.ku.edu

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16 JOURNALS  American Studies*  Biodiversity Informatics*  Center for East Asian Studies Publication Series  Folklorica: Slavic and East European Folklore Association  Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism*  Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics  Latin American Theatre Review*  Slovene Linguistic Studies  Social Thought and Research  KU Paleontological Contributions *=OJS journal MONOGRAPHS  Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists  Cartobibliography of Maps in 18th Century British and American Geographical Works  Greetings from the Teklimakan: A Handbook of Modern Uyghur  Pontificalia: A Repertory of Latin Manuscript Pontificals and Benedictionals  Niccolò Perotti's Rudimenta Grammatices  Jesuatti Book of Remedies

17 Some statistics Title# of ArticlesDownloads in April 2010 American Studies111142,959 Latin American Theater Review 161459,240 Biodiversity Informatics261,661 Folklorica: Journal of the Slavic and E. European Folklore Association 2006,363 Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (monograph in KU ScholarWorks) 12,351 (Since Aug 2006) Handbook of Uyghur Language (textbook)1,264 (Since Dec 2009)

18 Some next steps…  Statistics (usage, submissions, citations)  Host “Editors Forum”  Explore print-on-demand services, new e- book formats, multi-media  Pilot project with University Press  More training and education  info literacy and educational opportunities on campus.

19 WAY #3 EDUCATION, OUTREACH, ADVOCACY

20 Education, Outreach, Advocacy  Advise faculty in their roles as instructors, authors, editors, publishers  Assist with rights and permissions  Maintain scholarly communication website  Organize workshops on copyright issues and digital scholarship  Advocate through university governance and administrative channels, shape discussions of OA and data policies  Educate and train other librarians and students  Pay attention and be engaged

21 WAY #4 OPEN ACCESS POLICY

22 Open Access Policy for University of Kansas Scholarship  Faculty members grant permission to the university to make a copy of their scholarly journal articles available in the open access repository, KU ScholarWorks.”  PURPOSE: Provide the broadest possible access to the journal literature authored by KU faculty.  Approved May 2009 (& February 2010)  https://documents.ku.edu/policies/governance/OpenAccess.htm https://documents.ku.edu/policies/governance/OpenAccess.htm http://openaccess.ku.edu

23 WAY #5 NEW ORGANIZATIONAL UNITS AND PROGRAMS

24 New Organizational Units and Programs at KU Libraries  Center for Digital Scholarship  scholarly communication, digital publishing, digital imaging, GIS, data, lab & equipment  Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities

25 Libraries have growing scholarly communication programs which are becoming core activities…. Librarians have a unique set of skills which puts us at the center of campus teaching and learning… ….how do we continue to build skills, expertise, organizational and funding models to sustain these programs?

26 Further Reading  University Publishing In A Digital Age (Ithaka)  http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/university-publishing http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/university-publishing  Talk About Talking About New Models of Scholarly Communication (Karla Hahn)  http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.108 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.108  ARL: A Bimonthly Report: Special Issue on University Publishing  http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br252-253.shtml http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br252-253.shtml  Research Library Issues #269 (April 2010), "Strategies for Opening Up Content”  http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/rli/ http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/rli/  A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States (Diane Zorich) / Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)  http://www.clir.org http://

27 Library-based publishing initiatives  Scholarly Publishing Office (Michigan)  http://spo.umdl.umich.edu http://spo.umdl.umich.edu  Center for Innovative Publishing (Cornell)  http://cip.cornell.edu http://cip.cornell.edu  eScholarship (California)  http://www.cdlib.org/programs/escholarship.html http://www.cdlib.org/programs/escholarship.html  University of Kansas Digital Publishing Services  http://kudiglib.ku.edu/epublishing.shtml http://kudiglib.ku.edu/epublishing.shtml

28 Other OA Resources  SPARC  http://www.arl.org/sparc/ http://www.arl.org/sparc/  OAISIS  http://www.openoasis.org/ http://www.openoasis.org/  European Open Scholar  http://www.openscholarship.org http://www.openscholarship.org  SHERPA/RoMEO database  http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php  OA Advocacy Checklist for Research Libraries (PDF)  http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/lis/ticer/09carte/public at/17Swan_paper.pdf http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/lis/ticer/09carte/public at/17Swan_paper.pdf  eIFL  http://www.eifl.net http://www.eifl.net

29 дякую / Спасиба / Thank you Brian Rosenblum Scholarly Digital Initiatives Librarian University of Kansas brianlee@ku.edu


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