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Scholarly Communication: From Understanding to Engagement (ACRL Workshop) In-Person

Academic librarians are invited to attend a free, full-day workshop on scholarly communication, sponsored by Loyola Marymount University and SCELC. The workshop will help participants in practical ways, such as preparing for library staff or faculty outreach, contextualizing collection development decisions to internal and external stakeholders, and initiating or supporting new models for scholarly communication in their libraries. Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.

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About the Workshop

Academic and research librarians increasingly recognize scholarly communication as a core competency of the profession. ACRL empowers libraries in accelerating the transformation of scholarly communication by bringing its popular workshop "Scholarly Communication: From Understanding to Engagement" to Southern California.

The workshop will help participants in very practical ways, such as preparing for library staff or faculty outreach (i.e., working with faculty on publication agreements, interacting in their roles as liaisons, and developing programming for faculty and/or graduate students), contextualizing collection development decisions to internal and external stakeholders, and initiating or supporting new models for scholarly communication in their libraries.

Participants will engage in a structured interactive program and can expect to achieve learning outcomes in the four theme areas as follows:

Access

  • Understand some of the basic economic principles that characterize the traditional scholarly publishing system and the effect they have on access to knowledge.
  • Enumerate new modes and models of scholarly communication and ways libraries and other stakeholders can support those models, including through open access policies.
  • Understand the potential that new collaborations and partnerships offer for access, advocacy, and sustainability. 
  • Consider and reflect on how alternative funding sources for scholarly publishing can impact global access.

Emerging Opportunities

  • Identify and examine current models and programming that support openness.
  • Understand new technologies and methods to advance the creation, flow, dissemination and preservation of scholarly information.
  • Discuss growing movement towards alternative methods of measuring impact of scholarship.
  • Explore models that they might consider piloting or experimenting.

Intellectual Property

  • Understand how copyright arises and identify types of material that are likely to be subject to copyright protection.
  • Identify the likely copyright owners of academic works and have a reasonable awareness of the rights attendant on such protection.
  • Be familiar with rights transfer and retention language commonly used in publishing contracts.
  • Recognize the impact that specific copyright management practices have on monopolistic pricing, impediments to access, and the stewardship of knowledge.

Engagement

  • Explore methods for discovering/measuring campus opportunities and faculty activity in open access, i.e., environmental scans, focus groups, etc.
  • Identify techniques to reach out to faculty, departments, students and research groups based on their needs and library strengths, opportunities.
  • Consider piloting or experimenting with new models for creating and disseminating scholarship, including alternative funding sources, on their own campuses.
  • Increase awareness of collaborations that exist to support new forms of scholarly communications and seek new partnerships that can advance progress in these areas.
  • Consider what next steps are needed to deploy appropriate programs or pilot projects using key principles, facts, models, and messages relevant to scholarly communication plans and programs in their institutions.

 

Presenters

William M. Cross is the Director of the Copyright and Digital Scholarship Center at North Carolina State University where he provides advice and instruction to campus stakeholders on copyright, licensing, and scholarly communication issues.  As a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Will earned an M.A. in Technology & Communication, a J.D. in Law, and an M.S.L.S. in Library Science.  Before joining the Copyright and Digital Scholarship Center Will worked in academic and law libraries, in constitutional litigation, and at the North Carolina Court of Appeals.  He serves as an adjunct instructor in the UNC School of Information and Library Science and lectures nationally on free expression, copyright, and scholarly communication

Jenny Oleen is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at Western Washington University, where she also serves as the Copyright Librarian, and manages the Scholarly Communications Unit and the new institutional repository, Western CEDAR (http://cedar.wwu.edu). She has a BS in Agronomy from Kansas State University, a MS in Environmental Science from University of Arizona, and a MLS from Indiana University-Bloomington. 

 

Schedule

9:00:  Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:30:  Welcome and Introduction

10:00: Understanding Scholarly Communication: Framing the Issues

10:30: Copyright and Publication Agreement Exercise

12:00: Lunch

1:00:  Specialized Topic #1

2:15:  Break

2:30:  Specialized Topic #2

3:45:  Conclusion and Wrap-Up

 

This workshop is endorsed by the SCELC Scholarly Communication Task Force.

Date:
Friday, May 12, 2017
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Time Zone:
Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
University Hall - ECC 1857
Campus:
Loyola Marymount University
Categories:
  Workshop  
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