A presentation by Claire Stewart introducing scholarly communication and the Center for Scholarly Communication & Digital Curation (CSCDC). Presented to the Library Board of Governors, September 2011.

1. The serials crisis
aka
The crisis in
scholarly
communica1on

2. Scholarly communica1on
Research network visualiza1on for Darrell Abernethy
h<p://www.experts.scival.com/jhu/expertNetwork.asp?n=Darrell+Abernethy&u_id=4847

3. Open access
Open access literature is digital, online, free of
charge, and free of most copyright and licensing
restric1ons.
Peter Suber
h<p://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

4. Recent developments, policy and
legisla1on
• NIH mandate: requested 2005, required 2008
• NSF mandate: data management plans
• FRPAA, other funder mandates
• Copyright cases
– Google project and lawsuits
– Cases against libraries
• Georgia State e‐reserve
• UCLA streaming media
• HathiTrust orphan works

5. New forms of scholarship
&
data‐intensive scholarship

6. eScience and eResearch
Baraniuk, Richard G. 2011. “More Is Less: Signal Processing and the Data Deluge.”
Science 331 (6018) (February 11): 717 ‐719. doi:10.1126/science.1197448.

7. Digital humani1es: ‘distant reading’
When literary theory meets network theory: graphing Hamlet
Morei, Franco. 2011. Network theory, plot analysis. Literary Lab, Stanford University. Figs. 3 & 4

8. Digital humani1es: virtual research
environments, digital publishing

9. Science Staff. 2011. “Challenges and Opportuni1es.”
Science 331 (6018) (February 11): 692 ‐693. doi:10.1126/science.331.6018.692.

10. Center for Scholarly Communica1on
and Digital Cura1on

11. Services and projects
• Publishing: authors rights and publisher contracts
• Copyright: interpre1ng fair use and other exemp1ons,
when to seek permission
• Promo1ng open access: advocacy, events, alterna1ves
• Data management consulta1ons, data archiving, data
lifecycle support
• Repository and preserva1on services: suppor1ng use
and reuse
• Strategic conversa1ons around digital humani1es
• Northwestern Scholars, research networking,
bibliometrics

12. How?
• Virtual organiza1on, physical hub
• Ac1vely seeking partners across campus and
beyond
• Library affiliates: dipping into the deep
exper1se in the library
• Consul1ng and program affiliates
• Research, experimenta1on, proofs of concept,
retraining, retooling