CAUL Scholarly Communications Inventory: Some Findings

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. Obstacles and Challenges 1. OA Author’s Fund 2. OJS 3. Research Repository

23. Obstacles and Challenges Open Access Author’s Fund

24. Author’s Fund: Money Collections budget? • University partners?

25. Tri-Council Funding

26. Author’s Fund: Staffing

27. Fund Administration

28. Memberships Notifications and direct invoicing

29. Stats & Reports

30. Author’s Fund: Policies Peer-review Limits on article cost? Limits on faculty spending? Graduate students?

31. Hybrid Journals?

32. Predatory Journals

33. Obstacles and Challenges Journal Publishing

34. OJS: IT Infrastructure

35. OJS: Subscriptions?

36. OJS: Customization

37. OJS: Initial Training

38. OJS: Support

39. Print ReCon

40. Print ReCon

41. New Titles

42. Student Journals

43. Teaching and Learning

44. Article Visibility

45. Usage Statistics

46. Obstacles and Challenges Research Repository

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

48. Long Term Preservation

49. Content Recruitment

50. Theses