The presentation for academic librarians on developing a strategy and an action plan to support scholarly communication in a research university

1. Scholarly Communication
Academic Library strategy and action plan
Olga Koz, MLS, DM Candidate

2. Content
• Developing strategy
• Taking action
• Assessing outcomes

3. Steps
Strategy
 Environmental scan
 Identify stakeholders’
needs & viewpoints
 Form a team of experts
 Vision/goals/outcomes
 Action plan
 Assessment
 Modify strategy

4. Viewpoints, attitudes
Librarian
Publisher
IS Scholar
Researcher

5. Scan environment and assess needs
Ithaka S+R surveys
of academics and
faculty members

6. Action Plan
 Integrate
 Engage & outreach
 Advise and Assist
 Educate
 Change culture

7. Integrate
Use SC framework to teach information literacy. Prepare active
research participants not just consumers. Embed research into
learning & develop data and research literacy curriculum
Integration or interoperability with other repositories, content
management, library & learning management systems,
navigational paths
Dismantle boundaries, rather than ad hoc collaborations.
University wide conferences and publications. Scholarly
Communication Committee
Integrate IR into a research workflow

8. Engage
UNC library
publishing service
• Build a community (profiling,
best cases, online forum)
• Collaborate or be a
partner in teaching about
research & publishing
• Outreach (1X1 meetings, commi
ttees, faculty meetings, student
orientations)
Academic
social networks
altmetrics
SciVal
Experts

9. Valued added IR services
 Visibility of IR
 Mandates, workflow, normative
culture
 Dashboard of usage, news &
SM coverage of research
 Warm calls vs. cold calls
 Funder doesn’t have IR or DR
 Disciplinary vs IR
 Easy deposits & multiple deposits
 Deposit on behalf of a researcher
RMS, CVs, SciVal, ORCID, PubAlert
 SEOptimization (GoogleScholar)
 Host researchers web pages
 Consulting on author’s rights, OA
publishing and IR

10. Advise & Assist
• Publishing/OA
 Author’s rights resources.
 OA Impact factors Journal Met
ric Compare DOAJ list with cit
ation indexes (JCR, ScimagoJR
Scopus SNIP)
 Data & citation management
 Scholarly identity (ORCID)
• Depositing/IR & SR
SHERPA/RoMEO
Find publishers that allow authors to
deposit into IR
PubMed Central
The National Institutes of Health’s free
digital archive of biomedical and life
sciences journal literature. NIH Public
Access Policy requires that any articles
resulting from NIH-funded research
be submitted to this open access
repository.
Other repositories
SHERPA-JULIET
Use this resource to determine if your
funder requires that you submit
articles based on your funded research
to an open access repository
API for easy deposit SWORD
BibApp –research gateway & expert
finder

11. Educate
 Use various media to keep
academic community informed
about new SC models, OA
publications & tools
 Marketing campaigns such as
OA Week (3rd week of October)
 Organize & be a part of
symposiums, panels, seminars,
podcasts (faculty interviews),
participate and archive materials
from them
Molly Ali (OA advocate)

12. Examples of courses, classes, & workshops
 Data documentation, data sharing, and many facets of research data
management for doctoral students
 Subject repositories & IR (DataBib & DOAR) -for liaisons librarians
 Develop a data management and scholarly communication curriculum for
graduate students (1 credit special course)
 NIH Public Access
 How to select a journal for publication - for early career researchers and
students
 Research in the network world (building scholarly identity, collaboration,
altmetrics
 Dissertation (from LR to IR)

13. Culture
Change culture of
scholarly communication
Create need
or sense of
urgency
Key players,
early
adopters,
champions
Stories and
role models
Symbols,
norms
Change
rewards
• Values & assumptions

14. Assessment
 Number of SC consultations,
presentations, seminars and
other outreach and educational
events related
 Number and types of deposits in
IR
 Number of participants in
educational and outreach
programs on scholarly
communications
 Percentage of faculty depositing
in IR or publishing in OA
journals
 Number of publications edited
or published at a research
university (OA model)
 IR usage
 Citation index (impact factors)
 Scholar ratings

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