Transcript Scholarly Communications Presentation III

Scholarly Communication:
Threats, Problems and Opportunities
Presentation to the Council on Libraries
Dartmouth College
6/9/04
Barbara DeFelice, Head, Kresge Physical Sciences Library
Jim Fries, Head, Feldberg Business and Engineering Library
Co-chairs of the Digital Library Content Working Group
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Summary of Parts 1 and 2
Part 1: Threats and problems facing the
scholarly communication system; how
did we get here?
Brief history, economic model, roles of major
players: scholars, publishers, librarians
Part 2: Innovations and Initiatives in
Scholarly Communication Worldwide
New economic models, Open Access movement,
innovative, digital only scholarly research
projects
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Scholarly Communication:
Part 3: Opportunities and Solutions
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What are faculty doing?
What are publishers doing?
What are other institutions doing?
What can faculty, librarians and
administrators at Dartmouth do?
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What are faculty doing?
• Start new journals published by societies or academic
institutions; SPARC Alternative Program is one supporter of
this.
– Examples:
Michael Rosenzweig, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
University of Arizona, and editor of Evolutionary Ecology Research.
How he did it and why
Donald Knuth, Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer
Programming, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
and editor of the Elsevier published Journal of Algorithms, convinced
the whole editorial board to start a new competing journal called
Transactions on Algorithms published by the ACM His letter detailing
his proposal to the editorial board to move the journal to a different
publisher.
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What are faculty doing?
• Insist on holding copyright
– Taking Control of Intellectual Property Rights
information from ARL SPARC
• Insist on being able to post their work on
their own web sites
• Publish in alternative ways
– e-Scholarship at UC
• Decline editorial board positions of
commercially published titles
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What Publishers (commercial,
society, university) are Doing
• Reacting to faculty interest in changing copyright ownership
– Elsevier now allows authors to post preprints of their papers on their
own websites
• Reacting to the Open Access movement by adopting some
of the principles
– High Wire Press publisher of high quality medical and science titles,
division of the university library, allows free access to all materials
after 6 months
• Providing tools for local publishing which speed up process
of submission and review
– Berkeley Electronic Press
• Providing a way for small societies and publishers to publish
electronically and sell to consortia.
– The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
(ALPSP)
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What are institutions doing?
• Scholarly communication web sites
University of California, Boston College, University of
Washington
• Institutional statements regarding particular
publishers, events or new trends such as open
access
– Cornell, Harvard, MIT
• PLOS membership
• Scholarly communication seminars and symposia
– University of Oklahoma, University of Washington
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What institutions are doing, cont.
• Supporting institutional repositories
– Projects such as digital theses and dissertations and
other kinds of repositories using software services such
as DSpace
– Institutional repositories are not substitutes for publishing
but an additional scholarly communication service
• ARL Case for Institutional Repositories
• Digital archive created and maintained for locally created content
(also called an institution's intellectual assets) such as
dissertations, working papers, preprints
• Reasons to consider are : quantity of born digital scholarship,
concern over control and dissemination of this material, concern
for long-term archiving.
• Digital dissertations becoming a key part of institutional
repositories Electronic Theses and Dissertations, OAIster, ETD
Conference
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Conclusion
• What can and should be done at
Dartmouth to better educate the broader
campus community about these issues?
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Scholarly Communication:
Threats, Problems and Opportunities
Acknowledgements:
The members of the Digital Library Content Working Group
helped us frame these topics, contributed to discussions of
the issues, and developed some of the slides used in this
presentation.
John Cocklin
Laura K. Graveline
Lucinda M. Hall
John R. James
Margaret K. Sleeth
Reinhart Sonnenburg
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