Good Partners? Can Open Access Publishers and Librarians Find Meaningful Ways to Collaborate?

What should the relationship be between the purely Open Access publishers and librarians? Yes, in theory, among publishers these are publishers who are fully aligned with libraries to end the stranglehold which the traditional subscription publishers have on libraries. Yes, they are 100% attribution-only (CC-BY) publishers living up to the goals of Open Access (as described in the Budapest Open Access Initiative [BOAI]). But, are they just replacing over-priced subscriptions with over-priced APCs (Article Processing Charges)? Since they don\u27t have renewal revenue at risk they may not pay sufficient attention to usage and integration with library systems [KBART?, COUNTER?, etc.]. Since collection development librarians don\u27t have to assign budget dollars to purchasing their content--maybe they don\u27t need attention from librarians. The big subscription journals collect just one payment a year, and with big bundles, just one payment to cover thousands of journals. Are Open Access publishers just replacing that with thousands of tiny payments either in article processing costs, or in membership schemes for individual researchers? What are some initiatives that these publishers are trying that can avoid having the costs of publishing being invoiced to individual authors? Can these publishers, aligned as they are with libraries on the defects in the subscription system, be good partners with librarians in areas such as: Open Science Pre-print Servers Integration with Open Repositories Open Monograph publishing O.E.R. Library Publishing Conference hosting Is there more that they can do to effectively integrate with Library systems and processes? A panel of purely Open Access publishers and librarians brainstorm these and other questions affecting how the pure Open Access publishers and librarians might collaborate more effectively

Creative Commons: A License to Share Knowledge

A discussion of the types of creative commons (CC) licenses, how to assign them to your work, & how to find CC material –images, texts, & other original works—to use in your own teaching, writing, & scholarship

Life in the FASt Lane: Speedy Workflows for Providing a Faculty Assisted Submission (FAS) Service for Your IR

Including faculty papers in your repository is an essential function of an IR, but it can be tough to manage the solicitation and review of previously published materials. What can we legally add to faculty collections? Are there any requirements for posting? Can you rely on faculty to submit their work and comply with publisher policies? At the University of Pennsylvania, we have been developing workflows and processes to systematically run permissions on faculty CVs and upload them to Penn’s IR, ScholarlyCommons. Through our Faculty Assisted Submission (FAS) service, we are maximizing the libraries’ ability to support faculty works in the repository with as little effort as possible for the faculty member and the IR manager. Now in the second year of this program, we have quadrupled the number of faculty papers submitted since the first year, adding thousands to our collections. By leveraging free tools and common Library purchases, we have expanded the breadth of participation and fostered a growing sense of faculty interest in participating in Penn’s IR. All of this has been achieved by implementing a comprehensive training program for student workers and external administrators with oversight from a two-person scholarly communications team. While this program is by no means completely effortless, by investing heavily in the training of student workers up front, we have engaged students in scholarly communication literacy and provided the library with a mechanism for reliable ingestion of faculty materials into the IR. In this presentation, we will provide our shareable resources and give a step-by-step overview of our training module, permissions process, and ingestion workflows. We will discuss some of the challenges we still face and how you can leverage these approaches for your own institution

Balancing Influence in a Shifting Scholarly Communication Landscape: Creating Library-Owned, Community-Aligned Infrastructure Through Individual, Local, and Community Action

With the acquisition and creation of scholarly communication platforms/infrastructure by major commercial entities, the balance of influence continues to shift. The ACRL/SPARC Forum at the 2018 ALA Midwinter Meeting brought together library stakeholders for a conversation about how the library community can reassert its influence to shape the open access publishing landscape. Panelists focused on 1) Individual action: “What can one person do?” 2) Local coordinated action: “How can one group or institution effect change?” and 3) Collective action: “How can libraries work together to provide sustainable alternatives?

Decoding and Negotiating Publisher Contracts: Know What You\u27re Signing Away When You Publish

You wrote an article, and it was accepted to a journal. The publisher sends you a Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) or some other type of publishing agreement to sign, but what does that agreement actually say? What rights are you giving away, and what rights do you retain? Can you post your article to your website? Can you use it in the classroom? Can you send it to colleagues? This workshop will: look at a variety of CTAs across different disciplines give you tools to understand general journal policies on when and how you can post articles show you ways that you can negotiate with publishers to retain more rights to your work discuss ways that you can share your work, such as using our full service deposit to Penn\u27s institutional repository, ScholarlyCommons, and posting to researcher profile sites like Academia.edu, ResearchGate, and SelectedWork

Decoding and Negotiating Publisher Contracts: Know What You\u27re Signing Away When You Publish

You wrote an article, and it was accepted to a journal. The publisher sends you a Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) or some other type of publishing agreement to sign, but what does that agreement actually say? What rights are you giving away, and what rights do you retain? Can you post your article to your website? Can you use it in the classroom? Can you send it to colleagues? This workshop will: look at a variety of CTAs across different disciplines give you tools to understand general journal policies on when and how you can post articles show you ways that you can negotiate with publishers to retain more rights to your work discuss ways that you can share your work, such as using our full service deposit to Penn\u27s institutional repository, ScholarlyCommons, and posting to researcher profile sites like Academia.edu, ResearchGate, and SelectedWork

Decoding and Negotiating Publisher Contracts: Know What You\u27re Signing Away When You Publish

You wrote an article, and it was accepted to a journal. The publisher sends you a Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) or some other type of publishing agreement to sign, but what does that agreement actually say? What rights are you giving away, and what rights do you retain? Can you post your article to your website? Can you use it in the classroom? Can you send it to colleagues? This workshop will: look at a variety of CTAs across different disciplines give you tools to understand general journal policies on when and how you can post articles show you ways that you can negotiate with publishers to retain more rights to your work discuss ways that you can share your work, such as using our full service deposit to Penn\u27s institutional repository, ScholarlyCommons, and posting to researcher profile sites like Academia.edu, ResearchGate, and SelectedWork

Building an IR Toolbox for Targeted Marketing, Education, Training, and Outreach

Institutional repositories (IRs) provide a plethora of services for researchers – article deposit, data management, project archival, publishing, conference management, and more – so much so that presenting the institutional repository as a general service can be a daunting and overwhelming task. By piecing out different uses of the repository, an IR manager can create a “toolbox” of services that can be used individually or combined in different ways for more targeted marketing, consultations, outreach, training, and education. Having an IR toolbox allows repository services to be easily integrated with other researcher services on campus and facilitates more meaningful interactions with researchers, liaison librarians, and other stakeholders. In this presentation, I discuss how we have developed a toolbox for ScholarlyCommons, the University of Pennsylvania’s institutional repository, and some of the ways in which we are utilizing that toolbox within the Penn community. Presenting and promoting our institutional repository in this way has allowed for better education and training for liaison librarians, resulting in a greater number of projects coming into the repository through liaison relations, and has additionally enabled more constructive consultations, resulting in better metadata and quality assurance during new series setup and population. As Penn continues to develop its suite of researcher services, we are working to integrate repository services into various internal and external systems, which, in turn, increases the number of “tools” in our IR toolbox. This integration with other researcher services enables wider dissemination of ScholarlyCommons as a resource for the Penn community and promotes its use throughout the research process

Creative Commons: A License to Share

Sarah Wipperman will be leading a discussion on Creative Commons (CC) licenses, how to assign them to your work, & how to find CC material –images, texts, & other original works—to use in your own teaching, writing, & scholarship