SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

Samantha WoodsonMarch 19, 2012

The university library’s role in a changing

landscape

WHAT IS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION?

“[T]he system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for

quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use.”

--Association of College and Research Libraries (http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/whitepapers/principlesstrategies)

• 24,000 scholarly journals

• 1.5 million scholarly articles

OLD MODEL

Research/Write

Submit

Peer Review

Publish/Distribute

Read

EMERGING MODEL

Publish

Discuss

Research

Bergstrom lab, University of Washington. (2004). [Map of the social sciences]. Eigenfactor. Retrieved from http://www.eigenfactor.org/map/maps.php

CHALLENGES

Uneven adoption

Inconsistent knowledge base

Lack of comprehensive communication

Murky copyright legislation

OPEN ACCESS ACROSS DISCIPLINES

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Open Accessfor-profit

Business and Management

Open Access JournalsFor-Profit Journals

Law

Open Access Journals

For-Profit Journals

Education

Open Ac-cess Journals

For-Profit Journals

SurgeryOpen Access JournalsFor-Profit Journals

SOLUTION PATH: INSTRUCTION & EDUCATION Engage with faculty in formal and informal instruction

Offer instructional sessions in scholarly publishing to graduate students

Create online guides to self-archiving, emerging tools, and licensing

SOLUTION PATH:ONLINE SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION HUB

Forum for communication

Inform faculty and administration about colleagues’ and library’s scholarly communication activities

Portal to tools

SOLUTION PATH: INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY Preservation

Interdisciplinary

Collaborative

Control

Comprehensive

Promotional

“A commitment to the value and quality of research carries with it a responsibility to extend the circulation of such

work as far as possible and ideally to all who are interested in it and all who might profit by it.”

–John Willinsky, The Access Principle (MIT Press, 2005)

REFERENCESAssociation of College and Research Libraries. (2003). Principles and strategies for the reform of scholarly communication. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/whitepapers/principlesstrategies

Bergstrom lab, University of Washington. (2004). [Map of the social sciences]. Eigenfactor. Retrieved from http://www.eigenfactor.org/map/maps.php

Bjork, B. C., Lauri, M., Roos, A. (2009). Scientific journal publishing: Yearlyvolume and open accessavailability. Information Research, 14 (1). Retrieved from http://informationr.net/ir/14-1/paper391.html

Willinsky, J. (2005). The access principle: The case for open access to research and scholarship. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.