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1 ROLE OF SUBJECT LIAISON LIBRARIANS Scholarly Communication and Publishing Issues Jennifer Laherty, Digital Publishing Librarian, IUScholarWorks: Indiana University Libraries: jlaherty@indiana.edu

2 1: YOUR EAR TO THE GROUND

3 your faculty, their disciplines Faculty research interests and projects published works student works regular face to face meetings consider an environmental scan, see UMinn project: https://wiki.lib.umn.edu/ScholarlyCommunication/SurveyPartOne https://wiki.lib.umn.edu/ScholarlyCommunication/SurveyPartOne Discipline digital publishing initiatives in the field society collaborations

4 experience says... subject librarian = revolution point humanities scholars some, not ready – feel threatened by the loss of unique identity some, really ready – particularly newer and interdisciplinary fields: communication & culture dept., informatics social science scholars SC issues don’t resonate with some scholars because of established disciplinary solutions departments and their projects publications, theses, experimental student/faculty projects graduate student experience in publishing for future generational knowledge

5 experience says... keep trying; keep talking and exploring time and money are big factors you will be ready what are the selling points to engage HSS faculty? collaboration content enhanced by technology societal demand; intrinsic value to opening research societies and associations engaging in new forms of dissemination to keep their organizations relevant and viable citation counts? library and technology partners are good! focus on unique content and expertise Open Folklore: http://openfolklore.org/http://openfolklore.org/

6 2: PEOPLE TO HELP

7 scholarly communication team (or are you it?) your colleagues; ask questions instruction on copyright and open access topics training digitizing notable projects in the field campus happenings: mandate for depositing research faculty governance support provost support office of research administration connections university press collaborations if you’re it: be sure to stay attuned to SPARCSPARC

8 experience says... i’m your partner we make up solutions as we go versions are hugely important to researchers understand limitations of preservation copyright will always be a part of every conversation

9 3: KNOW YOUR LIBRARY’S SERVICES

10 what is the library trying to accomplish? leader in campus publishing capturing faculty published scholarly output official copy of record of digital dissertations and theses launching new scholarly initiatives hosting software for journals, conferences, monographs copyright education these are faculty issues librarians can be a partner, educator, facilitator, servant, etc. – but we can’t own these issues and the solutions by ourselves

11 what can be supported? develop software or use existing solutions know the limitations of out of the box software digitization rights checking

12 experience says... copyright issues will appear existing software can’t do it all institutional repository software can only be stretched so far faculty want collaborative digital workspace grants are tricky – sustaining project after the $ keep it simple

13 scholarly communication resources SPARC – The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition: http://www.arl.org/sparc/http://www.arl.org/sparc/ Scholarly Kitchen Blog: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/ Society for Scholarly Publishing: http://www.sspnet.org/http://www.sspnet.org/ ACRL ScholComm email discussion list: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/issues/scholcomm/ scholcommdiscussion.cfm http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/issues/scholcomm/ scholcommdiscussion.cfm US Copyright Office: http://www.copyright.gov/http://www.copyright.gov/

14 humanities resources Association for Computers and the Humanities: http://www.ach.org/ http://www.ach.org/ NEH Office of Digital Humanities: http://www.neh.gov/odh/http://www.neh.gov/odh/ Digital Humanities Summer Institute: http://www.dhsi.org/http://www.dhsi.org/

15 humanities OA publishers Alliance for Networking Visual Culture: http://scalar.usc.edu/anvc/ http://scalar.usc.edu/anvc/ Open Humanities Press: http://openhumanitiespress.org/http://openhumanitiespress.org/ digitalculturebooks: http://www.digitalculture.org/http://www.digitalculture.org/ Synergies, Canada’s Social Sciences & Humanities Research Infrastructure: http://www.synergiescanada.org/http://www.synergiescanada.org/

16 social science resources SSRN, Social Science Research Network: http://www.ssrn.com/http://www.ssrn.com/ Directory of Open Access Repositories: http://www.opendoar.org/http://www.opendoar.org/ RePEc Research Papers in Economics: http://repec.org/http://repec.org/ PROL: Political Research Online: http://www.apsanet.org/content_3905.cfmhttp://www.apsanet.org/content_3905.cfm Open Folklore: http://openfolklore.org/http://openfolklore.org/ anthropology government repositories abound Directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.doaj.org/http://www.doaj.org/

17 social science OA publishers National Academies Press: http://www.nap.edu/http://www.nap.edu/ RAND Corporation: http://www.rand.org/http://www.rand.org/ OAPEN, Open Access Publishing European Network: http://www.oapen.org http://www.oapen.org HSRC Press, South Africa: http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/

18 QUESTIONS Jennifer Laherty, Digital Publishing Librarian, IUScholarWorks: Indiana University Libraries: jlaherty@indiana.edu


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