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The Liaison Role in
Scholarly Communication
Trish Rosseel, SFU
Lynne Woodruff, UVIC
Scholarly Communications
Workshop 2007
Effective Liaison with Faculty
 Know your audience
• You already do! This is an opportunity to
learn more about them.
 Focus on change makers
• U of T Libraries Newsletter, Spring 2007
 Tap into the issues that are most
relevant to them
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Faculty Are Engaged in…
 Attracting funding
 Completing research
 Publishing their results
From Kate Corby’s review:
http://edrev.asu.edu/reviews/rev478.htm
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Faculty Want To:
 Publish their findings in the highest
prestige journal possible
 Reach a large audience
 Make a favorable impression on
potential funders
From Kate Corby’s review:
http://edrev.asu.edu/reviews/rev478.htm
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Why Faculty Publish
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Communicate results
Advance career
Personal prestige
Gain funding
Financial reward
Swan, A. (2006) The culture of Open Access: researchers’ views and responses, in
Jacobs, N., Eds. Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects,
chapter 7. Chandos.
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Why They Publish in OA
 Free access for all readers
 Faster publication time
 Larger readership than subscription
journals
 Articles will be more frequently cited
 Concerned about cost of traditional
journals to institution
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Why They Don’t
 Unfamiliar with OA journals in their field
 OA journals in their field have low
impact / low prestige
 Smaller readership
 Couldn’t identify OA journal to publish in
 Would publish in OA journal if it
overcame their perceptions about its
shortcomings
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Group Exercise
 Break into groups of 2
 Each person spend 5 minutes sharing
an experience you’ve had talking with
faculty about scholarly communication
 Each person note one key challenge or
success of your partner to share with
larger group
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How Does It Fit With Liaison?
 Liaison activities are integral part of
services we provide supporting
research and instruction at university
 Scholarly communication is a good fit
with our other liaison responsibilities
 We already have a close working
relationship with faculty
 We meet with them on a regular basis
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How Does It Fit With Liaison?
 We are experts in accessing information
 Library liaisons are best positioned to
serve as resource persons on campus
for scholarly communication
 We need to move from awareness of
scholarly issues towards advocacy
 What you can do to get involved!
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Educate Yourself
 Find out about staff training
opportunities
 Get involved in peer training
 Attend workshops
 Keep up with current issues
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Educate Faculty
 Arrange training with experts
 Sponsor colloquia or conference
• McGill
 Create web sites
• George Washington University
 Create blogs
• Boston College
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Work with University Groups
 Find out who else on campus is taking a
leading role in scholarly communication
issues and establish contact with them
 Faculty departments
 Faculty Library committees
 University Senate Committees
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Present Options/Strategies
 For increasing findability of articles
 For selecting open access journals or
open access friendly publishers
 For self-archiving in IRs
 For publishing open access journals
 For maintaining author’s
rights/questioning author agreements
 For making most effective use of $$$
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Exercise: Elevator Speech
 Individually, develop a script:
• 2 minutes in length
• Suitable for elevator ride with faculty
• On any topic discussed today
 Pitch your speech to the person next to
you and ask for feedback/suggestions
 Share insights with larger group
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Resources to Support You
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Opportunity Assessment Instrument
Scholarly communications handout
SPARC web site
Your colleagues!
Workshop facilitators
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