Roles for Academic Libraries in Supporting Open Scholarship

Brian Rosenblum

Charles University, October 26 2009

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.

“To what extent should the institutions that support the creation of scholarship and research take responsibility for its dissemination as well?”

-Karla HahnAssociation of Research Libraries

New Roles for Academic LibrariesProviding 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

Scholarly Communication Initiatives at KUInstitutional Repository

(KU ScholarWorks)Digital Publishing ServicesEducation, Outreach, Advocacy*New*: Open Access Policy - June 2009

Lawrence, Kansas

University of KansasUndergraduate Students: 23,000Graduate Students: 6,000Faculty Members: 2,300Research Centers: 8 on Lawrence campus

Federal Grants: over $200 million Libraries: 4 million volumes

5 library buildings, one central

Open Access RepositoriesAuthors self-archiveDiscipline or institutionally-based

Metadata harvested by search engines and indexing services

Registry of Open Access Repositories:

http://roar.eprints.org/

KU ScholarWorkshttp://www.ku.edu/~scholar

Open Access JournalsPeer reviewed

Various funding models

Directory of Open Access Journalshttp://www.doaj.org4382 journals

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

Library-basedpublishing initiatives Scholarly Publishing Office (Michigan)

http://spo.umdl.umich.eduCenter for Innovative Publishing (Cornell)

http://cip.cornell.edueScholarship (California)

http://www.cdlib.org/programs/escholarship.html

University of Kansas Digital Publishing Services http://kudiglib.ku.edu/epublishing.shtml

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did

KU Digital Publishing Serviceshttps://journals.ku.edu

Some Journals at KU

Software Platforms

•Journals@KU (OJS)• http://journals.ku.edu

•KU ScholarWorks (D-Space)• http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu

•eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) Supports indexing, querying, display of XML documents (TEI and

EAD) http://etext.ku.edu

Open Journal Systemshttp://pkp.sfu.ca/

JOURNALSAND 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

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 inKU ScholarWorks)

11,307 (Since Aug 2006)

Some next steps…Establishing workflows and policies, organizational funding to sustain program

Improve OJS trainingStatistics (usage, submissions, citations)Editorial advisory board meetingHost an “editors’ forum” in OctoberExpand website with more resources on publishing issues

Seek to participate in info literacy and educational opportunities on campus.

Roles for Libraries in Education, Outreach, AdvocacyAdvise 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 engagedEducate and train other librarians and students

OPEN ACCESS POLICY FOR UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOLARSHIPFaculty 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.htm

Other Policies in U.SNational 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

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

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/

publicat/17Swan_paper.pdf

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?

Brian RosenblumScholarly Digital Initiatives LibrarianUniversity of Kansasbrianlee@ku.edu