Get assistance with grant compliance (public access policies), copyright questions, publication agreements, and rights retention from U of Tennessee's Scholarly Communication & Publishing Librarian.

1. Scholarly Publishing:
Expertise at the UT Libraries
Rachel Radom
Scholarly Communication & Publishing Librarian
Spring 2016

2. What are we talking about?
• “Scholarly Communication”
• Traditional formats, new formats
• Copyright, author rights, publishing
practices, article sharing, funders’ public
access policies, impact metrics, and…

3. Librarian expertise means…?
• One example: Advising on Public Access
Policies
• DOD, DOE, NIH, NSF, USDA, Gates
Foundation, Sloan Foundation – the list
grows

5. How is publishing changing?
• Funders’ Public Access Policies
• FASTR in Congress (S.779, H.R.1477)
• Open Access (OA) Policies
• Institutional: Harvard, MIT, Oregon State, the UC System
• Departmental
• OA Journals
• Preprints (arXiv and ASAPbio)

7. Self-Determination
• Who did the work? Who owns the work?
• Who pays to create it? To access it?
• Who determines how to share the work?

8. Does the right to share matter?
1) Last year, UT was sent 5 take down notices
2) NY Southern District Court in 2015:
Elsevier v. Sci-Hub
3) #icanhazpdf

9. Researchers want to share. They often can’t.
Our system of scholarly publishing is
broken. And, it’s no longer ours.
How do we get it back?

10. Publishing Agreements =
Contracts
• Recognize that they’re legal documents
• Recognize that they’re negotiable (you can
change the terms)
• Authors have the right to hold onto their
rights (librarians can help them with that)

11. Options
Publication Agreement Amendments

12. How to hold onto your rights?
• If you’re aiming for a particular journal, review their
standard publication agreement. (Sherpa/RoMEO
database)
• Rely on a grant policy or a departmental policy.
• Ask for a “license to publish” as opposed to a
copyright transfer agreement.
• Use an addendum. Retain the rights most
important to you.

13. http://libguides.utk.edu/scholarlypublishing/agreements

14. Best Practices in Publishing
• COPE (Committee on
Publication Ethics)
• Open Access
• DOAJ (Directory of OA
Journals)
• OASPA (OA Scholarly
Publishers
Association)

15. Support from the Libraries
• Open Publishing Support Fund with ORE*
• PeerJ, BioMed Central memberships: Reduced fees
for OA publishing
• Trace (Green/Delayed OA, after an embargo)
• DMP Tool (Sample data management plans)
• We host new e-journals
*ORE and UT’s Humanities Center also offer a book subvention fund

16. Developments, Not Trends
• ORCID Identifier (ORCID search wizards)
• Symplectic Elements: Publications Help
• Metrics
• Alternative Metrics (e.g., Do Tweets
matter? Yes!)

17. Theses & Dissertations
• Embargoes
• Copyright permissions for tables, figures

18. OER & Open Textbooks

19. https://www.lib.utk.edu/scholar/