1. Scholarly Communication Issues: Raising Awareness on Many Fronts
June 2007
ASEE ELD
James Van Fleet

2. Scholarly Communication
Open Access,
Copyright,
Author’s Rights,
Institutional Repositories,
and faculty ownership . . .
of the issues!

3. Librarian Activism online journals SPARC & Creating Change
Continuing speaker series
OA licenses & subscriptions
Copyright & Author’s Addenda
Archiving software
And generally working our guts out to “raise awareness.”

4. Faculty Ownership Information users Authors / creators Editors
Reviewers
Tenure seekers and grantors
our definition of “success” depends on modifying their behavior . . .

5. Survey of Faculty Activism
Activity recommended at the ARL Scholarly Communication Institute
meeting with faculty department chairs
Printed survey
Web survey linked from SC web pages
Responses = only 5% of faculty, but 45% of departments

6. Survey Results . . . “What is an Open Access journal?”
“I’m not familiar with this term, does open access = electronic?”
“The reputability of this sort of thing is still suspect.”
“Additional charges are too expensive to justify publishing in open access, even if available”

7. Faculty Activism!

10. Faculty must lead the way!
Knowledgeable librarians, but also faculty and especially administrators
Targeted audience
University Counsel, Provost, Deans, Department Chairs
Make the tools available

11. Provost’s support
Cornell University Faculty Senate Endorses Resolution on Open Access and Scholarly Communication, May 2005.
Resolution on Access to Scholarly Information passed by the University of Kansas Faculty Senate, March 2005.
Committee on Institutional Cooperation Provost’s Statement on Publishing Agreements, May 2007.

12. Bucknell Strategic Plan
Library initiatives
Institutional repository
Faculty advisory committee on scholarly communication
University initiatives
Review of faculty committees
Revision of university tenure review guidelines

13. resources
Scholarly Communication web pages.