1. Brian Rosenblum Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Library May 25, 2010
Academic Libraries and Open Access: Policies, Services and Resources for Increasing Access to Scholarship
Brian Rosenblum
Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Library
May 25, 2010

2. Open Access
Digital, online, free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions (Peter Suber)
Eliminates technical, economic and legal barriers to access and use
Goal is to maximize usage, impact, value and progress of research

3. “To what extent should the institutions that support the creation of scholarship and research take responsibility for its dissemination as well?”
-Karla Hahn Association of Research Libraries

4. 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

5. Scholarly Communication Initiatives at KU
KU ScholarWorks (institutional repository)
Digital Publishing Services
Education, Outreach, Advocacy
Open Access Policy ( )
New initiatives
Center for Digital Scholarship
Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities

6. Lawrence, Kansas

7. Undergraduate Students: 23,000 Graduate Students: 6,000
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

8. (1) Open Access Repositories
Authors self-archive
Discipline or institutionally-based
Metadata harvested by search engines and indexing services
Registry of Open Access Repositories:

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

10. 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

11. (2) Open Access Journals
Peer reviewed
Various funding models
Directory of Open Access Journals
5000+ journals

12. Libraries as Publishers
“Rapidly becoming the norm…” (ARL)
Production support for local journals
new electronic journals & conversion of print back issues
Emphasis on access and visibility, local control, preservation
provide low-cost services by supporting open access models and leveraging library and campus IT resources

13. Library-based publishing initiatives
Scholarly Publishing Office (Michigan)
Center for Innovative Publishing (Cornell)
eScholarship (California)
University of Kansas Digital Publishing Services

22. KU Digital Publishing Services https://journals.ku.edu

23. Some Journals at KU

24. KU ScholarWorks (D-Space) eXtensible Text Framework (XTF)
Publication Software
(OJS)
KU ScholarWorks (D-Space)
eXtensible Text Framework (XTF)
Supports indexing, querying, display of XML documents (TEI and EAD) 24

25. Open Journal Systems http://pkp.sfu.ca/

26. JOURNALS MONOGRAPHS 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

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32. Some statistics Title # of Articles Downloads in April 2010
American Studies
1111
42,959
Latin American Theater Review
1614
59,240
Biodiversity Informatics 26
1,661
Folklorica: Journal of the Slavic and E. European Folklore Association
200
6,363
Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists
(monograph in KU ScholarWorks)
12,351 (Since Aug 2006)
Handbook of Uyghur Language
(textbook)
1,264 (Since Dec 2009) 32

33. Some next steps…
Establishing workflows and policies, organizational funding to sustain program
Improve OJS training
Statistics (usage, submissions, citations)
Host “Editors Forum”
Expand website with more resources on publishing issues
Explore print-on-demand services, new e-book formats, multi-media
Pilot project with University Press
Seek to participate in info literacy and educational opportunities on campus. 33

34. (3) Roles for Libraries in Education, Outreach, Advocacy
Advise faculty in their roles as instructors, authors, editors, publishers
Assist with rights and permissions
Maintain scholarly communication websites
Organize workshops on copyright issues and digital scholarship
Advocate through university governance and administrative channels, shape discussions of OA policies
Pay attention and be engaged
Educate and train other librarians and students

35. (4) 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

36. Other Policies in U.S National Institutes of Health
$28 Billion in biomedical research funding
Peer-reviewed research must be deposited in PubMed Central
Harvard University (Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
Faculty grant university permission to distribute scholarly articles, including deposit in OA repository
Stanford, MIT, University of Oregon, Duke

37. (5) New Units and Services at KU Libraries
Center for Digital Scholarship
scholarly communication, digital publishing, digital imaging, GIS, data, lab & equipment
Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities

38. 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?

39. University Publishing & Digital Humanities (further reading)
University Publishing In A Digital Age (Ithaka)
Talk About Talking About New Models of Scholarly Communication (Karla Hahn)
ARL: A Bimonthly Report: Special Double Issue on University Publishing
A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States (Diane Zorich) / Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)

40. Other OA Resources SPARC http://www.arl.org/sparc/ OAISIS
European Open Scholar
SHERPA/RoMEO database
OA Advocacy Checklist for Research Libraries (PDF)
eIFL

41. Brian Rosenblum
Scholarly Digital Initiatives Librarian
University of Kansas