SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION EXPRESS

ALCTS Discussion Group @ ALA Annual July 28, 2014

Sherri L. BarnesScholarly Communication Program Coordinator

UC Santa Barbara Librarybarnes@library.ucsb.edu

1. UCSB Background2. UCSB Library Background3. Scholarly Communication Program

background4. Scholarly Communication Express 5. Origin and purpose6. Implementation

Overview

Library Background

• 3+ million volumes• 40 librarians• 24 subject specialist

• New administration• New repository• Building project

Scholarly Communication Program

• Scholarly Communication Program Coordinator – 50% time, promote awareness, coordinate training, administer OA Fund, eScholarship contact, system-wide schol comm action group rep, coordinate the Schol Comm Group

• Scholarly Communication Group - coordinators of 4 collection groups, Head of CD, AUL for Collections, life sciences librarian, chemistry librarian, social science data librarian, 26 faculty champions

• Multidisciplinary approach to scholarly communication and publishing issues

• OA Week programming since 2010

• UC Academic Senate passed an OA Policy July 24, 2013

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Topics• Altmetrics• Creating data management plans• Creative Commons licenses• eScholarship• EZID accounts• NIH Public Access Policy compliance• Open access publishing• UC OA Policy• Understanding article publication

agreements

Concept• I5-minute

presentations, on trends in academic publishing, delivered to campus departments and organizations.

Origin & Purpose• Tied to goals:

Short term: create an active consultation and education program Long term: be the campus authority on scholarly communication and

publishing

• To increase the Scholarly Communication Program's visibility

• To just be available to do presentations wasn't enough

• To have a way to track the presentations we were doing as a result of general outreach - tabling, programs, responding to OA Fund questions, and good old fashion liaison work

• To address the problem of low attendance at drop-in sessions and programs; if they won't come to us, we'll go to them

Implementation• Outreach Department helped to develop branding and publicity - the flyer, the webform, website

and easy to use URL; campus wide email announcement sent

• Be flexible! For example, when French & Italian dept. requested three presentations, but limited me to 30 minutes

librarians can complete the request form for their departments longer presentations are available upon request

• Response & Feedback conducted 3 sessions between April and May (FRIT; Sociology; Office of Research) One librarian announced the program at a faculty meeting that she attended, and was

pleased to be able to show and leave the flyer

• Fall outreach plans: info at Library Open House, Library newsletter article, emails from liaison librarians, Open Access Week programs and tabling, OA Policy implementation tie-in

Illustration by David Foster