1. Launching and Growing the ScholarlyCommons @ Penn:
Evolution, Revolution, or Devolution

2. Evolution

3. Revolution

4. Devolution

5. Where does Penn fall? Devolution – Why? Penn extremely decentralized
Funding comes from a fee that is assessed to each school
Library considered one of many core services
Schools expect services from library in ways that may not be true in other universities

6. Where does Penn fall? Devolution
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)
Bibliographers key
Target departments that are high profile
Wait for departments to come to us
Only take on a new department if faculty and the dean are on board

7. Where does Penn fall? Devolution
When departments come to us – we are incredibly pro-active
Check copyright clearances and upload documents for faculty
Work under assumption that faculty do not have time to do this work
Individual training sessions with faculty and staff who want to learn more about the issues

8. Where does Penn fall? Devolution – Success?
4,161 documents from 73 collections
6,953 dissertations
Total 11,114 total documents
Approximately 33,000 downloads per month

10. Growing requires all 3 approaches
Devolution
Needs to continue
Evolution
Politics within some departments precludes the entire department approaching us
Individual faculty, however, have shown great interest

11. Growing requires all 3 approaches
Evolution
Need to start talking to those departments which have not been as supportive
In many cases the publication system as it currently exists works
“Open Access” means un-peer reviewed vanity publishing

12. Growing requires all 3 approaches
Revolution
Necessary to reframe our arguments
Faculty generally do not see benefits of open access to them
Do see the opportunity of giving themselves higher profiles inside and outside Penn
Do see benefits (depending on disciplines) of e-publication services

13. Growing requires all 3 approaches
Revolution
Do see benefits of including “non-traditional” materials in repository (lecture series, proceedings, etc.)

14. Evolving the Devolved Revolution
What will the future IR look like?
IRs are the backbone (back-end) of new scholarly communication system
Backbones, however are not necessarily what is most compelling to faculty
Seeing increased interest in SelectedWorks, e- publishing possibilities and “front-end” services

15. Evolving the Devolved Revolution
What will the future IR look like?
Though IRs may be an essential component of what we bring to faculty, they are not necessarily what we “sell” to faculty

16. Evolving the Devolved Revolution
What do we “sell?”
Getting your scholarship into Google
Creating your own webpage (SelectedWorks)
Creating pretty online journals
Clearing copyright permissions
Uploading articles for you

17. Evolving the Devolved Revolution
Re-thinking the IR
All of these services are “fringe” from most librarians’ perspectives
To faculty they are incredibly important
Re-think how we sell and how we think about IRs

18. Evolving the Devolved Revolution
Re-thinking the IR
At Penn we are trying to turn this framework around and make these services the “core” from the faculty perspective
For the libraries (a secondary concern for faculty) the “core” is preservation and open access