The Sound of the Crowd: Using Social Media to develop best practices for Open Access Workflows for Academic Librarians (OAWAL)

For the past nine months, Graham stone and Jill emery have been promotion OAWAL: Open Access Workflows for Academic Librarians on a blog site, through facebook, through Twitter, and at in-person events in both the US and UK to raise awareness of open access management in academic libraries and in an attempt to crowdsource best practices internationally. At the in-person meetings, we've used a technique known as the H Form which was developed by an independent consulting group known in the UK as "Peanut". This overview will outline the current project and focus on feedback received. It will also highlight some of the changes that have been made in response to the feedback given and future plans of this project

TERMS: Techniques for electronic resources management

Librarians and information specialists have been finding ways to manage electronic resources for over a decade now. However, much of this work has been an ad hoc and learn-as-you-go process. The literature on electronic resource management shows this work as being segmented into many different areas of traditional librarian roles within the library. In addition, the literature show how management of these resources has driven the development of various management tools in the market as well as serve as the greatest need in the development of next generation library systems. TERMS is an attempt to create a series of on-going and continually developing set of management best practices for electronic resource management in libraries

US open access life cycle

Based on the UK open access life cycle, in the centre circle, we have used the 7 stages of the publishing process as described by Neil Jacobs (Jisc), this is followed by institutional processes – of course not all institutions will have all of these processes up and running, e.g. we don’t all have a CRIS. We then included publisher services that directly impact upon the work of the open access team. We then went on to map above campus services to the life cycle. Finally, we added the 6 sections of OAWAL showing where we think that fits with the life cycle

Three years on: TERMS

Three years ago, we began publishing the rough drafts we had for TERMS: Techniques for Electronic Resource Management to a Tumblr blog and wiki space and soliciting feedback from the international library community. The response to the work was extremely positive from colleagues around the world and the feedback received really helped to develop the best practices into a cohesive reference tool

Mining for Gold: Identifying the Librarian\u27s Toolkit for Managing Hybrid OA

This plenary presentation was given on April 8 at UKSG Conference 2013 and discusses the following points: (1.) Open access provision does not mean that access is provided with absolutely no cost associated with it. Management of open access publishing is an investment that libraries are making (2.) Open access publishing whether it is done in your library or outside of it still needs to be organized and managed. (3.) Open access within your institution is an enterprise-wide endeavor and this is especially true within the library itself. Whatever you do, do not create another silo of management. The video of this plenary presentation is available here: http://youtu.be/02CDRFR72p

Discovering Open Access Content: A Conversation

Open access Workflows in Academic Libraries (OAWAL) is an attempt to crowdsource the best practices for management of open access content within academic libraries. This presentation/discussion will focus on the segment concerned with discovery of OA content: the addition of global OA Content to library catalogs & discovery systems, participation in OAISter, necessary metadata for discovery, exposure of local repository on Google, Indexing of gold OA journals and the need for OA designation, usage data (IRUS-UK, PIRUS). The intent was to seek input from the attendees on what else can aid with discovery of OA content. The OAWAL project can be found here: https://library3.hud.ac.uk/blogs/oawal

Heard on the Net: You Can’t Always Get What You Want: PEERing into Open Access and Watching It All Come UnGlued

This column discusses the usage findings of the PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) Project and argues that librarians should start assembling tools to not only track author publishing but to also measure the impact of research

Heard on the Net: Library Resources A La Carte and Prix Fixe, Selection in the Age of Budget Scarcity

This column explores the question how do we arrive at selection criteria and collection development policies that provide for both a la carte ordering and prix fixe purchasing

Heard on the Net: Fear and Self-Loathing in Libraryland

This column explores the argument that the future of librarianship is in peril, and hope is futile and librarians are not doing enough to maintain our professional relevance in the 21st century