Wayne Johnston, University of Guelph, Ontario

1. Ex malo bonum:
a bold new focus
on scholarly communication
Wayne Johnston
Head, Research Enterprise and Scholarly Communication
University of Guelph Library
wajohnst@uoguelph.ca

5. Library required to reduce
budget by $1 million
accomplished through loss of 14
positions via voluntary early
retirement and resignation
incentives

9. “By ‘mainstreaming’ scholarly
communication duties into the work of all
liaison librarians, the UMN Libraries are
moving these issues to the very center of
the profession and fully owning them.”
"Leading Change in the System of Scholarly Communication:
a case study of engaging liaison librarians for outreach to faculty",
Kara J. Malenfant. College and Research Libraries, January 2010.

10. cost of electronic journals increase
library budgets diminish
publishers consolidate
license terms grow increasingly restrictive

11. open access

12. “Removing access barriers to this
literature will accelerate research, enrich
education, share the learning of the rich
with the poor and the poor with the
rich, make this literature as useful as it
can be, and lay the foundation for
uniting humanity in a common
intellectual conversation and quest for
knowledge.”
Budapest Open Access Initiative

14. Research Enterprise and Scholarly
Communication Team

15. data/oac

16. • research consultation
• data consultation and management
• virtual research environment
• catalogue of research
• electronic theses and dissertations
• institutional repository
• open access, peer reviewed journal publishing
• author rights, copyright & publishing consultation
• open access support
• Campus Author Recognition programme
• digital collections
• consortia licensing
• team-based communication and promotions
Work Inventory

23. The Antimicrobial Resistance
Research Team of Guelph (ARRT)
Publications
• Occurrence of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in healthy dogs and cats
presented to private veterinary hospitals in Southern Ontario (7
comments)
• Prevalence and patterns of antimicrobial resistance of fecal E. coli
among pigs on 47 farrow-to-finish farms with different in-feed medication
policies in Ontario and British Columbia (2 comments)
• more publications
Reports
• Field report 2009 (8 comments)
• Report to NSERC 2009 (5 comments)
• more reports
Data
• Lab assays 2009 (download)
• more data
Presentations
• Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (6
comments)
• more presentations
Documents
• Minutes from 12 August 2009
• Draft policy on open access
• more documents
People
• Team members
• Associates
• become an associate
Discussion
• Need to establish partners in the
South (16 posts)
• Preservation of raw data (7
posts)
• more discussions
Media
•“New research has disease
fighting potential.” Toronto Star
• subscribe to RSS media feed
Resources
• The Journal of Antimicrobial
Chemotherapy
• Antimicrobial peptides in human
health and disease
• more resources

31. our accomplishments to date
Wayne Johnston, 15 September 2009

41. Ex malo bonum:
a bold new focus on scholarly communication

42. Ex malo bonum:
a bold new focus
on scholarly communication
Wayne Johnston
Head, Research Enterprise and Scholarly Communication
University of Guelph Library
wajohnst@uoguelph.ca