Scholarly Communication and Research Libraries

This presentation provides an overview of the scholarly communication ecosystem as well as two major forces that affect it. It wraps up with a discussion of the evolving roles of research libraries

Creating and Hosting Student-Run Research Journals: A Case Study

This case study aims to examine an academic library’s roles in facilitating the creation and hosting of open access student-run research journals. In addition to providing an online platform to host the journals, the library acquaints students with scholarly publishing, assists them in securing various resources available on campus, and offers support for content management. There are challenges and opportunities for the library as it undertakes the responsibility of hosting student journals. The article concludes with a discussion of possible topics for future research

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Scholarly Communication: A Presentation for FIMS LIS9630

This presentation provides a brief overview of these topics: • Scholarly communication • Copyright management • Openness and open movements • Institutional repository • Online journal publishing • New roles for academic librarie

Library Services for Creating and Publishing Student Research Journals

Theme: Planning and implementing student research journals Highlighted Services: Journal consulting, publishing and technical support Resources: Sample journal staff organization models, checklists to support planning, staffing, and productio

Scholarly Communication Services: Repository-based Library Publishing

This presentation discusses strategies for building a user base of the online publishing platform provided by Western Libraries at The University of Western Ontario. It also describes support services for platform users

Interpreting Workplace Learning in Terms of Discourse and Community of Practice

Based on the ethnographic data collected from the workplace of an academic library, I argue that workplace learning (WL) is a situated socio-cognitive process. It is expedited by knowledge management (KM), which is a collective effort to generate, share, and institutionalize work-related knowledge. KM is inherent in the face-to-face conversational interactions embedded in planned formal training, planned informal sharing, and spontaneous informal learning. When face-to-face interaction is not possible, KM is accomplished through textualization. It helps the members of the workplace acquire new work-related knowledge and integrate it to their common, contextualized knowledge base. The contents of the knowledge base are manifested in the members’ professional practices and explicated by their professional/communal discourse. By virtue of their distinctive practices and discourse, the members form a community of practice (CoP) and gain their professional/communal identity. Whenever they engage in KM, perform their practices, and/or use their discourse, they authenticate their professional/communal identity and enact their CoP