Building A Scholarly Communications Brand: The Scholars Cooperative At Wayne State University

In the past year, our library system has placed an emphasis on developing our scholarly communications and digital publishing initiatives. With new librarians with extensive responsibilities in these areas, our team of scholarly communication and digital publishing librarians at Wayne State University has been working towards identifying and rebranding our suite of scholarly communications and publishing services, which we now call The Scholars Cooperative. The Scholars Cooperative aids, educates and empowers the campus community to advance the creation, distribution and preservation of scholarship beyond traditional academic publishing models. We will share the cooperatives’ vision, planning process, organizational structure, and services offered. Learn from two of the planning librarians ways in which you can promote your scholarly communications and publishing services to your students, faculty, and staff

Online Learning & Copyright

Presentation to faculty in Wayne State University\u27s (WSU) School of Business Administration about copyright and their use of materials in online instruction

The Scholars Cooperative: A New Marketing Approach For Our Scholarly Communications Initiatives

Wayne State University librarians have been working towards identifying and rebranding our suite of scholarly communications and publishing services, now called The Scholars Cooperative. The Scholars Cooperative aids, educates and empowers the campus community to advance the creation, distribution and preservation of scholarship beyond traditional academic publishing models. We will share the cooperatives’ vision, planning process, organizational structure, and services offered

Increasing Your Research Impact: Digital Commons and Altmetrics

This presentation will discuss new options for extending your scholarship’s reach and for tracking your scholarly influence. DigitalCommons@WayneState is the University’s institutional repository, where we collect and provide perpetual open access to the intellectual output of WSU. Altmetrics, or “alternative metrics”, is a rising trend in scholarly communication, providing non-traditional metrics for assessing scholarly impact, including Twitter and popular news coverage. Two Wayne State librarians will demonstrate these tools, and explain how they can increase your research impact

Help Them Help Themselves: Developing Interactive Tools To Help Faculty Deal With Copyright And Fair Use

Cyber Zed Shed presentation given during the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2013 conference about Wayne State University Library System\u27s Copyright Projects Team and the development of our new copyright website

Establishing A Copyright Team And Building A Copyright Toolkit

Presentation given during the Fall 2012 meeting of the Southeastern Michigan League of Libraries (SEMLOL) about Wayne State University Library System\u27s Copyright Projects Team and the development of our two new tools, the interactive fair use checklist and the copyright decision tree

Copyright Awareness, Partnerships, And Training Issues In Academic Libraries

This article reports on the results of a national survey of academic librarians and library staff (N = 226) in the United States about their awareness of various copyright policies, partnerships with campus groups to address copyright issues, and training needs. A majority of the survey respondents reported that they have answered copyright-related questions in the workplace, yet only 49% (n = 98) of the respondents perceived they were prepared to provide copyright information to library users. Awareness of various copyright policies among librarians and staff members varied, including a reported minimal awareness of the T.E.A.C.H. Act. In addition, survey respondents expressed the desire for more copyright-related training. In light of these findings, the present study extends the existing literature and offers recommendations to help better prepare a “copyright confident” or “copyright responsive” academic library workforce

Informing Authors: Outreach strategies for engaging faculty in scholarly communications issues at your institution

This presentation communicates three approaches at a research institution to engage faculty around scholarly communication issues. Attendees will come away better equipped to develop their institutional repositories and create a stronger scholarly communications program

Better…Stronger…Faster: Improving Your Skills Through Self-Assessment

As interlibrary loan librarians and paraprofessionals work to improve the speed, convenience, and visibility of the services we provide, we may often overlook the importance of our own involvement in the process. Taking an introspective look at your role and overall professional knowledge, with the intent to sharpen and enhance the services provided, can improve workflow and provide opportunities to promote interlibrary loan services to our institutions. Literature discusses the assessment of services and users, but has focused less on the professional’s skills. Assessing your knowledge of your library’s collection, measuring your processing times, and knowing where to find answers can help you set goals and meet objectives to build your department into an efficient and well-regarded unit. This presentation will discuss some tools a new interlibrary loan librarian has explored, their implications, and the vast body of self-assessment possibilities