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CAUL Scholarly Communications Inventory: Some Findings

CAUL Scholarly Communications Inventory: Some Findings. Presenting on behalf of the CAUL Scholarly Communications Committee: Lise Brin, St. Francis Xavier University Geoff Brown , Dalhousie University Lisa Goddard , Memorial University MAY 2013. Agenda. Intro

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CAUL Scholarly Communications Inventory: Some Findings

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  1. CAUL ScholarlyCommunications Inventory: Some Findings Presenting on behalf of the CAUL Scholarly Communications Committee: Lise Brin, St. Francis Xavier University Geoff Brown, Dalhousie University Lisa Goddard, Memorial University MAY 2013

  2. Agenda • Intro • Survey Questions & Results • Barriers, Constraints, Concerns • Outlook: Collaboration, Future Developments • Discussion

  3. Results General Overview • Why a Scholarly Communications Committee? • Why an Inventory?

  4. Overview – All Questions

  5. Overview – All Institutions

  6. Question 1: Does your library have an online repository for faculty research?

  7. Question 2: Does your library offer an eJournal publishing service?

  8. Question 3: Does your library offer an eBook publishing service?

  9. Question 4: Do you collect, publish, and preserve local research data sets? (e.g. numeric, geospatial)

  10. Question 5: Does your library preserve and make accessible conference proceedings and/or presentations?

  11. Question 6: Does your library have an Open Access Author’s Fund?

  12. Question 7: Does your institution have an Open Access mandate?

  13. Question 8a: Which of the following educational or promotional activities are offered by your library? • Maintain an OA guide on your web site

  14. Question 8b: Which of the following educational or promotional activities are offered by your library? • Inclusion of OA journals in catalogue or other major discovery tool

  15. Question 8c: Which of the following educational or promotional activities are offered by your library? • Offer sessions to faculty and or students on Open Access publishing

  16. Question 8d: Which of the following educational or promotional activities are offered by your library? • Organize activities during Open Access week

  17. Question 8e: Which of the following educational or promotional activities are offered by your library? • Promote the Directory of Open Access Journal, Creative Commons, or related services to researchers in your organization

  18. Question 9: Who has responsibility for Scholarly Communications activities at your library? • Acadia, Dal, MSVU and MUN have librarians whose job titles/descriptions specifically include Scholarly Communications • Other institutions either share the responsibility between a number of people – or else no one is doing this work in an official capacity

  19. Question 10: Of the Scholarly Communications services that are not yet offered at your library, which would you consider to be the most important priority for development? • Top four: • Promotion • Research/digital repository • Data repository/data management • Advocacy

  20. Question 11: What are some of the challenges that your library faces in terms of developing your Scholarly Communications services?

  21. Question 12: Is there a role for CAUL-CBUA in helping your library to develop Scholarly Communications services?

  22. Drill Down:Challenges and Opportunities 1. Research Repository 2. Open Journal Systems 3. Open Access Author’s Fund

  23. Challenges and Opportunities Research Repository

  24. IT Infrastructure OSS: Dspace (4) Islandora (1) Eprints (1) Local servers & backup Upgrades, patches, customizations Batch ingests

  25. Content Recruitment The phrase "if you build it, they will come" does not yet apply to IRs. While their benefits seem persuasive to institutions, IRs fail to appear compelling and useful to the authors and owners of the content. - Foster and Gibbons, D-Lib 2005

  26. Theses

  27. Thesis Deposit Forms

  28. Digitized Collections?

  29. Citation Only?

  30. Restricted Content?

  31. Publisher PDFs

  32. Author’s Fund A copy of the funded paper will also be made available through the Memorial University Research Repository immediately after initial publication.

  33. Faculty c.v.

  34. Mediated Submission

  35. Faculty Outreach

  36. Faculty Outreach

  37. Long Term Preservation

  38. Challenges and Opportunities Journal Publishing

  39. OJS: IT Infrastructure Free as in kittens.

  40. OJS: Customization

  41. OJS: Initial Training

  42. OJS: Support

  43. OJS: Subscriptions?

  44. Print ReCon

  45. New Titles

  46. Student Journals

  47. Teaching and Learning

  48. Article Visibility

  49. Usage Statistics

  50. Challenges and Opportunities Open Access Author’s Fund

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