Mental Health Awareness - a toolkit for supporting young minds
How to Grow a Department
1. How to Grow a Department:
Research & Scholarly Communication Services at the
Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical
School
Sally Gore, MS, MS LIS
ACRL-NEC Annual Meeting
Scholarly Communications SIG Panel
May 18, 2012
2. Getting Started: Basics
Get your garden (department) going:
◦ Containers (staff, digital repository)
◦ Potting Soil (environment)
◦ Seeds (ideas, programs)
◦ Labels and markers (strategy, plan)
◦ Plastic Bags or Covers (incubation period)
◦ Water and Light Source (food)
Illustration: Amy Bryant
“Boys’ Life”, January 2000
5. Potting Soil
The NIH Public Access Policy implements Division G,
Title II, Section 218 of PL 110-161
(Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008)
The law states:
The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall
require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit
or have submitted for them to the National Library of
Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of
their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance
for publication, to be made publicly available no later
than 12 months after the official date of publication:
Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public
access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.
6. Seeds
Relevant Topic Talks
◦ NIH Policy
◦ Open Access
Memberships
◦ BioMed Central
◦ PLoS
IR Communities &
Projects
IR Features
◦ Integrated RSS Feeds
◦ Researcher Pages
◦ Publishing Platform
7. Labels and Markers
Campus-wide Open Access Policy
Chair,
UMMS Faculty
Council Vote
Education and
Awareness
Campaign Implementation
Plan
…
9. Water and Light Source
Support
◦ Research Funding Department
◦ Individual Researchers, Labs, and Departments
◦ Faculty Affairs and Faculty Council
Staff
◦ Summer Workers
◦ Temporary Staff
◦ Paraprofessional Staff
Success
◦ Success Breeds Success
10. Our Garden Today
Ever-growing IR
OA Policy in progress
Education
◦ Funding Agency
Requirements
◦ Copyright
◦ Authors Rights
Host and Publish
eJournals
Publishing eBook
*CCTS Evaluation*
11. Gardens are not made by singing
'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the
shade.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Thank You.
Questions?