From the Ground Up: A Group Editorial on the Most Pressing Issues in Scholarly Communication

A group editorial from the Editorial Board of the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

Developing a community of practice: report on a survey to determine the scholarly communication landscape in western Canada

The Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) Scholarly Communications Working Group (SCWG) surveyed COPPUL member libraries with a short questionnaire in November 2012. The stated purpose of the survey was to inform both the educational efforts of COPPUL with regard to scholarly communications, as well as the agenda of a proposed meeting of scholarly communication practitioners in COPPUL libraries. This paper discusses the results in the context of the formation of a Community of Practice (CoP) since conducting the survey. The paper concludes that a CoP has not yet formed; however, it presents the challenges with the formation of the CoP, identifies some of the actions taken so far, and makes recommendations for future direction for continuing to develop the CoP among COPPUL institutions.N

From the Ground Up: A Group Editorial on the Most Pressing Issues in Scholarly Communication

A group editorial from the JLSC Editorial Boar

Open Access (OA) immersion: librarians report from the field

Librarians encounter OA in their own publishing activities, and by engaging in the broader OA movement via disciplinary initiatives such as EPrints and the University of Calgary Open Access Authors Fund. Can we translate our experiences and initiatives to assist with OA program planning and improve service

Portage Dataverse North

Presentation for the Annual Open Repositories Conference, June 2018. Bozeman, MT, USA. For over ten years, the Dataverse Community has been collaboratively building repository software to allow researchers to share, publish, and find useful data. Community growth in 2017 included 14 new installations world-wide, bringing the total number of installations to 30. In addition to the near-doubling of organizations using Dataverse as part of their research data management process, the developer community grew to 50 unique contributors on Github and the Community Calls welcomed 290 attendees from 27 organizations/institutions across 12 countries. A panel brought together members of the Dataverse Community each talking about how, through the use, development & training of the Dataverse Software, it has helped institutions (and in some cases country federations) meet the challenging need for a data repository. In so doing - a community evolved. This presentation focuses on the Canadian efforts with Dataverse North.Library, UBCNon UBCUnreviewedFacult

Canadian Repository Landscape

<p>This work was presented in COAR 2018 Annual Meeting and General Assembly, Hamburg (Germany)</p

Celebrating International Open Access Week the COPPUL Scholarly Communication Task Group Way

The article provides a summary of the COPPUL Scholarly Communication Task Group's celebration of International Open Access Week, October 24-30, 201

CARL-COAR Joint Webinar on IR Usage Statistics

Institutional repositories (IRs), by virtue of their ability to give increased visibility to the institution’s scholarly outputs, are valued for their vast amount of open scholarly content. Libraries wishing to demonstrate use (and value) frequently report the number of file downloads sustained by their IR. However, commonly used analytics tools are unsuited for this purpose and produce results that dramatically under-count or over-count file downloads. As well, although statistics can sometimes be accessed through the various repository interfaces, without an agreed standard it is impossible to reliably assess and compare usage data across different IRs in any meaningful way. The first part of this webinar will explain the reasons for the inaccuracies in most IR download counts and will introduce a new web service called Repository Analytics and Metrics Portal (RAMP), which provides much more accurate counts of file downloads to IR managers, with almost no installation or training requirements. Aggregated data collected with RAMP also creates the potential for interesting new streams of research about IR. RAMP was developed with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The second half of this webinar will focus on another approach at standardizing institutional research data download statistics: IRUS-UK, a national aggregation service, which contains details of all content downloaded from participating IRs in the UK. By collecting raw usage data and processing them into item-level usage statistics, following rules specified by COUNTER, IRUS-UK provides comparable and authoritative standards-based data and also acts as an intermediary between UK repositories and other agencies