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Scholarly Communication Issues: Raising Awareness on Many Fronts June 2007 ASEE ELD James Van Fleet
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Scholarly Communication Open Access, Copyright, Author’s Rights, Institutional Repositories, and faculty ownership... of the issues!
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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.”
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Faculty Ownership Information users Authors / creators Editors Reviewers Tenure seekers and grantors our definition of “success” depends on modifying their behavior...
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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
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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”
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Faculty Activism!
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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
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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.
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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
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resources http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/documentary-film- program/film/a-fair-y-use-talehttp://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/documentary-film- program/film/a-fair-y-use-tale http://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/resolu tion.htmlhttp://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/resolu tion.html http://www.provost.ku.edu/policy/scholarly_informat ion/scholarly_resolution.htmhttp://www.provost.ku.edu/policy/scholarly_informat ion/scholarly_resolution.htm http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/programs/CenterForLibrary Initiatives/Archive/Report/CICAuthRtsFINAL16Ma y07.pdfhttp://www.cic.uiuc.edu/programs/CenterForLibrary Initiatives/Archive/Report/CICAuthRtsFINAL16Ma y07.pdf http://www.bucknell.edu/x10881.xml Scholarly Communication web pages.
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