Brian Rosenblum: Roles for Academic Libraries in Supporting Open Scholarship
1. Roles for Academic Libraries in Supporting
Open Scholarship
Brian Rosenblum
Charles University, October 26 2009
2. Open Access
Digital, online, free of charge and free of
most copyright and licensing restrictions
(Peter Suber)
Eliminates technical, economic and legal
barriers to access and use
Goal is to maximize usage, impact, value
and progress of research
OA has an ethical rationale, plus technical,
economic, research, and other rationales.
3. “To what extent should the
institutions that support the
creation of scholarship and
research take responsibility for
its dissemination as well?”
-Karla Hahn
Association of Research Libraries
4. New Roles for Academic Libraries
Providing stewardship over locally produced
scholarship and ensuring that it is accessible
to an external, worldwide audience
Working directly with faculty and research
units before and during the creation and pre-
publication stage of research.
Incorporating scholarly communication
issues into information literacy programs for
faculty and students
5. Scholarly Communication Initiatives at KU
Institutional Repository
(KU ScholarWorks)
Digital Publishing Services
Education, Outreach, Advocacy
*New*: Open Access Policy - June
2009
7. University of Kansas
Undergraduate Students: 23,000
Graduate Students: 6,000
Faculty Members: 2,300
Research Centers: 8 on Lawrence
campus
Federal Grants: over $200 million
Libraries: 4 million volumes
5 library buildings, one central
8. Open Access Repositories
Authors self-archive
Discipline or
institutionally-based
Metadata harvested
by search engines
and indexing
services
Registry of Open
Access Repositories:
http://roar.eprints.org/
10. Open Access Journals
Peer reviewed
Various funding
models
Directory of Open
Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org
4382 journals
11. Libraries as Publishers
“Rapidly becoming the norm…” (ARL)
Production support for local journals
new electronic journals & conversion of print back
issues
Emphasis on access and visibility, local
control, preservation
provide low-cost services by supporting
open access models and leveraging library
and campus IT resources
12. Library-based
publishing initiatives
Scholarly Publishing Office (Michigan)
http://spo.umdl.umich.edu
Center for Innovative Publishing (Cornell)
http://cip.cornell.edu
eScholarship (California)
http://www.cdlib.org/programs/escholarship.html
University of Kansas Digital Publishing
Services
http://kudiglib.ku.edu/epublishing.shtml
25. JOURNALS
AND SERIAL
PUBLICATIONS
American Studies*
Biodiversity Informatics*
Center for East Asian
Studies Publication Series
Journal of Dramatic Theory
and Criticism*
Kansas Working Papers in
Linguistics
Latin American Theatre
Review*
Slovene Linguistic Studies
Social Thought and
Research
KU Paleontological
Contributions
*=OJS journal
MONOGRAPHS
Biographical Dictionary
of Kansas Artists
Cartobibliography of
Maps in 18th Century
British and American
Geographical Works
Greetings from the
Teklimakan: A Handbook
of Modern Uyghur
Pontificalia: A Repertory
of Latin Manuscript
Pontificals and
Benedictionals
Niccolò Perotti's
Rudimenta Grammatices
Jesuatti Book of
Remedies
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31. Some statistics
Title # of Articles Downloads
(September
2009)
American Studies 1111 14,521
Latin American Theater
Review
1614 37,217
Biodiversity Informatics 26 1,631
Journal of Dramatic
Theory and Criticism
612 7180
Biographical Dictionary of
Kansas Artists
(monograph in
KU ScholarWorks)
11,307 (Since
Aug 2006)
32. Some next steps…
Establishing workflows and policies,
organizational funding to sustain program
Improve OJS training
Statistics (usage, submissions, citations)
Editorial advisory board meeting
Host an “editors’ forum” in October
Expand website with more resources on
publishing issues
Seek to participate in info literacy and
educational opportunities on campus.
33. Roles for Libraries in Education, Outreach,
Advocacy
Advise faculty in their roles as instructors, authors,
editors, publishers
Shape campus discussions of NIH and other funding
agency policies
Maintain scholarly communication websites
Organize workshops on copyright issues and digital
scholarship
Advocate through university governance and
administrative channels
Pay attention and be engaged
Educate and train other librarians and students
34. OPEN ACCESS POLICY FOR UNIVERSITY OF
KANSAS SCHOLARSHIP
Faculty members grant permission to the university
to make a copy of their scholarly journal articles
available in the open access repository, KU
ScholarWorks.”
PURPOSE: Provide the broadest possible access to
the journal literature authored by KU faculty.
Approved May 2009
https://documents.ku.edu/policies/governance/OpenAccess.ht
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35. Other Policies in U.S
National Institutes of Health
$28 Billion in biomedical research funding
Peer-reviewed research must be deposited in PubMed
Central
Harvard University (Faculty of Arts and
Sciences)
Faculty grant university permission to distribute
scholarly articles, including deposit in OA repository
Stanford, MIT, University of Oregon
36. UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING
University Publishing In A Digital Age
http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/university-publishing
Talk About Talking About New Models of Scholarly
Communication
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.108
ARL: A Bimonthly Report: Special Double Issue on
University Publishing
http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br252-253.shtml
37. OTHER RESOURCES
SPARC
http://www.arl.org/sparc/
OAISIS
http://www.openoasis.org/
European Open Scholar
http://www.openscholarship.org
SHERPA/RoMEO database
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
OA Advocacy Checklist for Research Libraries (PDF)
http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/lis/ticer/09carte/public
at/17Swan_paper.pdf
38. Libraries have growing scholarly
communication programs which are
becoming core activities….
Librarians have a unique set of skills which
puts us at the center of campus teaching and
learning…
….how do we continue to build skills,
expertise, organizational and funding models
to sustain these programs?
The first way that libraries and institutions can support open access and new publishing models is through supporting open access policies.
These generally work on a self-archiving model where authors themselves upload their published articles, working papers, presentations, or other files themselves. The metadata is harvested by search engines and allow users to search across the content without having to know where the content resides. There are currently about 1500 open access repositories listed in the Registry of Open Access Repositories (how many in CR and CE?).
At KU we launched our institutional repository in 2003. This is a repository for the scholarly work created by the faculty and staff at the University of Kansas. We use D-Space to run our repository. It currently holds about 4500 items.
Our University IT department is responsible for the technical infrastructure and run software, and the library promotes the use of the repository to faculty and researchers, and helps develop policies and services.
Libraries can lead in developing and supporting an institutional repository, but in order for the repository to work it needs to be part of a campus-wide effort, with support from administrative and departmental leaders.
For those interested in exploring this further here are a few links to some major library-based publishing initiatives at the University of Michigan, Cornell University and the U of California. A link to our much smaller program at KU is also listed here at the bottom.
We currently offer three publishing platforms:
D-Space _ our institutional repository - which I’ve already mentioned and which serves as an ideal place to archive scanned back issues of journal articles.
And XTF, an application developed at the University fo California that is designed to display documents marked up in XML, such as EAD archival finding aids, or TEI-based text monographs.
And OJS…
Open Journal Systems or OJS - which is an open source journal management application developed at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver Canada that is designed to support the entire online publication of journals
From author submission to peer review to copy editing to publication all in one integrated online environment.