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CAUL Scholarly Communications Inventory: Some Findings Presenting on behalf of the CAUL Scholarl

y Communications Committee: Lise Brin, St. Francis Xavier University Geoff Brown , Dalhousie Univer

sity Lisa Goddard , Memorial University MAY 2013 Agenda ➛ Intro ➛ Survey Questions & Resu

lts ➛ Barriers , Constraints, Concerns ➛ Outlook : Collaboration, Future Developments ➛ Disc

ussion Results General Overview • Why a Scholarly Communications Committee? • Why an Inventory

? Overview – All Questions 7 7 1 3 2 1 2 9 15 7 7 15 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6

Q7 Q8a Q8b Q8c Q8d Q8e Survey Questions Does not offer this service Offers this service Overview –

All Institutions 10 8 8 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 0 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 A B C

D E F G H O I J K L M N P Institutions Services not offered Services offered Question 1: Does your li

brary have an online repository for faculty research? 10 7 No Yes Question 2: Does your library

offer an eJournal publishing service? 10 7 No Yes Question 3: Does your library offer an eBook pu

blishing service? 16 1 No Yes Question 4: Do you collect, publish, and preserve local research

data sets? (e.g. numeric, geospatial) 14 3 No Yes Question 5: Does your library preserve and make

accessible conference proceedings and/or presentations? 15 2 No Yes Question 6: Does your libra

ry have an Open Access Author’s Fund? 16 1 No Yes Question 7: Does your institution have an Ope

n Access mandate? 15 2 No Yes Question 8a: Which of the following educational or promotional ac

tivities are offered by your library? • Maintain an OA guide on your web site 8 9 No Yes Questi

on 8b: Which of the following educational or promotional activities are offered by your library? •

Inclusion of OA journals in catalogue or other major discovery tool 2 15 No Yes Question 8c: W

hich of the following educational or promotional activities are offered by your library? • Offer sess

ions to faculty and or students on Open Access publishing 10 7 No Yes Question 8d: Which of the

following educational or promotional activities are offered by your library? • Organize activities du

ring Open Access week 10 7 No Yes Question 8e: Which of the following educational or promotional

activities are offered by your library? • Promote the Directory of Open Access Journal, Creative Com

mons, or related services to researchers in your organization 2 15 No Yes Question 9: Who has re

sponsibility for Scholarly Communications activities at your library ? • Acadia, Dal, MSVU and MUN ha

ve librarians whose job titles/descriptions specifically include Scholarly Communications • Other in

stitutions either share the responsibility between a number of people – or else no one is doing this

work in an official capacity Question 10: Of the Scholarly Communications services that are not yet

offered at your library, which would you consider to be the most important priority for development ?

• Top four: • Promotion • Research/digital repository • Data repository/data management â

€¢ Advocacy Question 11: What are some of the challenges that your library faces in terms of develop

ing your Scholarly Communications services ? Question 12: Is there a role for CAUL - CBUA in helping

your library to develop Scholarly Communications services ? Drill Down: Challenges and Opportuniti

es 1. Research Repository 2. Open Journal Systems 3. Open Access Author’s Fund Challenges

and Opportunities Research Repository IT Infrastructure • OSS: Dspace (4) Islandora (

1) Eprints (1) • Local servers & backup • Upgrades, patches, customizations • Batch i

ngests Content Recruitment The phrase "if you build it, they will come" does not yet apply to IRs. W

hile their benefits seem persuasive to institutions, IRs fail to appear compelling and useful to the

authors and owners of the content . - Foster and Gibbons, D - Lib 2005 Theses Thesis Deposit For

ms Digitized Collections? Citation Only? Restricted Content? Publisher PDFs Author’s Fund

A copy of the funded paper will also be made available through the Memorial University Research Reposito

ry immediately after initial publication. Faculty c.v. Mediated Submission Faculty Outreach Facul

ty Outreach Long Term Preservation Challenges and Opportunities Journal Publishing OJS: IT I

nfrastructure Free as in kittens. OJS: Customization OJS: Initial Training OJS: Support OJS: Sub

scriptions? Print ReCon New Titles Student Journals Teaching and Learning Article Visibility

Usage Statistics Challenges and Opportunities Open Access Author’s Fund Author’s Fund: Mon

ey • Collections budget? • University partners? Tri - Council Funding Fund Administration Me

mberships • Notifications and direct invoicing Stats & Reports Author’s Fund: Policies •

Peer - review • Limits on article cost? • Limits on faculty spending? • Graduate students?

Hybrid Journals? Predatory Journals Challenges: Summary • Staffing • Funding • Administr

ative Support • Faculty Awareness Question 12: Is there a role for CAUL - CBUA in helping your

library to develop Scholarly Communications services? • Shared infrastructure • Advocacy â

€¢ Information sharing “Many projects are started and people work alone but then have no - one t

o ask, or bounce ideas off .” How should we work together? • Networking • Coordinating â

€¢ Cooperating • Collaborating * Electronic collaboration ontology: The case of readiness analysis o

f electronic marketplace adoption Miri - Lavassani , Kayvan ; Movahedi , Bahar ; Kumar, Vinod . Jour

nal of Management and Organization16. 3 (Jul 2010): 454 - 466. Networking Coordinating Cooperating

Collaborating Survey Suggestions • Regional data repository (Infrastructure) o Suggestions

centered on a shared infrastructure o Does one institution want to coordinate this? o Should we go

further and align goals/policies , divide up the work etc.? • Institutional Repositories (Infrastruc

ture) o Difficult to imagine harmonizing institutional goals & policies. o Coordinate on infrastru

cture ? o Cooperate on metadata? Survey Suggest ions • Preservation (Infrastructure) o Can CAUL

help libraries cooperate on a regional preservation initiative such as LOCKSS? Survey Suggestions

• Coordinating Open Access week activities for the region (Advocacy) o Would we be willing to cooper

ate on preparing and delivering a uniform message to the academic community from CAUL? o A re we mor

e comfortable just networking on this and crafting our own messages? Survey Suggestions • Creating

guides for librarians trying to establish research repositories (Information Sharing) o Networking or

Coordinating (both?) o Suggestions from the survey focused on promotional tools and guides . Discus

sion • In terms of scholarly communications, do people view CAUL - CBUA as a networking and coordinat

ing body or are there possibilities for more in - depth cooperation and collaborations? Thank you!

On behalf of the CAUL Scholarly Communications Committee Lise Brin, Geoff Brown, Gillian Byrne, Lisa