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Western UniversityScholarship@WesternWestern Libraries Staff Presentations Western Libraries6-3-2009Scholarly Communication Presentation forLIS9630Adrian K. HoThe University of Western Ontario, HoAdrianK@gmail.comFollow this and additional works at: http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/wlpresPart of the Information and Library Science CommonsCitation of this paper:Ho, Adrian K., "Scholarly Communication Presentation for LIS9630" (2009). Western Libraries Staff Presentations. Paper 8.http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/wlpres/8Scholarly Communication Presentation for LIS9630 Adrian K. HoScholarly Communication LibrarianUniversity of Western OntarioJune 3, 20091This presentation was modelled after the ACRL Scholarly Communication 101 workshop.  It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.  2Concerns over Scholarly Communication• Journals as crucial vehicles for scholarly information exchange• Journal prices escalating, especially in Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) fields (“serials crisis”)• “Big deal” electronic journal packages• Licensing restrictions on access3Concerns over Scholarly Communication4Concerns over Scholarly Communication• Less library funding for purchasing monographs• Limited sales of monographs• Fewer opportunities for monograph publishing• Business interests vs. Academic information needs5Scholarly Communication Lifecycle6DiscoverAssimilate AccessDisseminateReviewGeneratePreserveAcquireScholarly Content* Depending on the mode of dissemination, some components may not exist.Scholarly Communication LifecycleDifferent stakeholders included:• Scholars/Researchers as authors• Publishers• Libraries• Scholars/Researchers as readers• Higher education institutions• Research funding agencies, etc.7Scholarly Communication LifecycleDifferent topics involved:• Peer review• Copyright transfer• Impact factor• Collection development• Acquisitions• Information discovery• Access, etc.8Scholarly Communication LifecycleIssues of current system• Lengthy process for dissemination• Internet as communication channel not fully utilized• Barriers to access due to commercial interests• Increasing economic burden for libraries• Changes in information-seeking behaviour9Copyright Management• No complete copyright transfer for journal articles• Retention of certain rights (author rights)• Author addendum to copyright transfer agreement, e.g., SPARC Canadian Author Addendum• Self-archiving to increase online visibility of and access to published articles10Openness• Free flow and sharing of information and ideas for teaching, learning, and research (with adequate acknowledgement of sources)• Available to all for retrieval and/or contribution• Facilitated by Internet as communication channel• Conducive to knowledge acquisition and generation11Open Access• A principle of disseminating scholarly content• Online• Free of charge• Free of most copyright and licensing restrictions • Made possible by Internet and consent of copyright holders12Open Access• Compatible with peer review • Faster information exchange• OA journals less expensive to produce than conventionally published journals• Different models to operationalize OA publishing• Questions about business model sustainability• Directory of Open Access Journals13Open Data• Research data made freely available for other researchers to build upon• Data collected with public funding • NRC-CISTI’s Gateway to Scientific Data to help with easier access to data generated by Canadian researchers14Open Education• Making educational resources more accessible • Also improving education quality by facilitating review of and feedback to educational practices and pedagogies• Collaborative extension of educational resources among educators, i.e., building upon each other’s work• MIT OpenCourseWare and Rice’s Connexions15Digital RepositoriesOnline archives that collect and provide access to certain types of digital materials16Digital Repositories• Institutional repositories: Online archives created and maintained by educational or research institutions to collect and showcase their intellectual outputs, e.g., Scholarship@Western• Disciplinary repositories: Subject-based online archives that expedite communication among the members of an academic community, e.g., arXiv, dLIST, PubMed Central, RePEc, etc.17Digital Repositories18Digital RepositoriesContent• Higher visibility and accessibility• Potentially more discussion and feedback• Potentially more citations and more impactResearchers• Potentially more recognition in academic community and outside of academia• Potentially more competitive for future research funding19Digital RepositoriesInstitution• Active contribution to scholarship• Enhancement of profile as research institution• International recognition of academic achievements• Beneficial to global researcher networking• Beneficial to recruitment of faculty and students20Digital Repositories• Deposits of published articles in digital repositories contingent on publisher’s permission• Tool to check publisher’s copyright policy: RoMEO21Online Journal Publishing• Online journals hosted by institutions or academic libraries, most of them open access• Synergies created to assist Humanities and Social Sciences journals in Canada to migrate to online environment • Open Journal Systems created by Public Knowledge Project as an online publishing platform, e.g., Canadian Journal of Sociology• Directory of Open Access Journals22Alternative Communication Channels• Academic blogs for rapid communication and interaction between authors and readers• Wikis for collaborations• Message boards and e-mail lists for discussions• Social networking sites (with multimedia materials), e.g., SciVee23New Roles for Academic Libraries• Raise awareness of the importance of broad accessibility of scholarly content• Encourage discussions of current scholarly communication practices• Promote copyright management and author rights and their significance to education24New Roles for Academic Libraries• Develop a digital repository to broaden access to scholarly content• Help develop open access journals in collaboration with interested faculty and researchers• Promote open access journals to indexing services, potential funders, authors, and readers 25New Roles for Academic Libraries• Consider providing financial support to authors who wish to publish in open access journals• Integrate basic concepts of scholarly communication into information literacy programs 26Selected Online Resources• Listed in this post on Digital & Scholarly blog• Excellent sources for news about scholarly communication:oOpen Access NewsoDigitalKoans27

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