Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

Time to Step on the Gas in Approaching the Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy

Shan C. Sutton — Wed, 15 May 2013 08:53:11 PDT

Hobbling Scholarship: A Librarian’s Perspective on Inequitable Access to Calls for Papers for Publication and Presentations

Hope Leman — Wed, 15 May 2013 08:53:09 PDT

Building an Online Data Management Plan Tool

Michele Reilly et al. — Wed, 15 May 2013 08:53:08 PDT

Following the 2011 announcement by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that it would begin requiring Data Management Plans with every funding application, the University of Houston Libraries explored ways to support our campus researchers in meeting this requirement. A small team of librarians built an online tool using a Drupal module. The tool includes informational content, an interactive questionnaire, and an extensive FAQ to meet diverse researcher needs. This easily accessible and locally maintained tool allows us to provide a high level of personalized service to our researchers.

Copyright Questions and Answers for Information Professionals, by Laura N. Gasaway

Sue Kunda — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:15:35 PDT

Tenure-Track Science Faculty and the 'Open Access Citation Effect'

R. Christopher Doty — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:20:38 PST

INTRODUCTION The observation that open access (OA) articles receive more citations than subscription-based articles is known as the OA citation effect (OACE). Implicit in many OACE studies is the belief that authors are heavily invested in the number of citations their articles receive. This study seeks to determine what influence the OACE has on the decision-making process of tenure-track science faculty when they consider where to submit a manuscript for publication. METHODS Fifteen tenure-track faculty members in the Departments of Biology and Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill participated in semi-structured interviews employing a variation of the critical incident tecnique. RESULTS Seven of the fifteen faculty members said they would consider making a future article freely-available based on the OACE. Due to dramatically different expectations with respect to the size of the OACE, however, only one of them is likely to seriously consider the OACE when deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. DISCUSSION Journal reputation and audience, and the quality of the editorial and review process are the most important factors in deciding where to submit a manuscript for publication. Once a subset of journals has satisfied these criteria, financial and access issues compete with the OACE in making a final decision. CONCLUSION In order to increase the number of OA materials, librarians should continue to emphasize depositing pre- and post-prints in disciplinary and institutional repositories and retaining the author rights prior to publication in order to make it possible to do so.

Academic Libraries as Data Quality Hubs

Michael J. Giarlo — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:20:36 PST

Academic libraries have a critical role to play as data quality hubs on campus. There is an increased need to ensure data quality within ‘e-science’. Given academic libraries’ curation and preservation expertise, libraries are well suited to support the data quality process. Data quality measurements are discussed, including the fundamental elements of trust, authenticity, understandability, usability and integrity, and are applied to the Digital Curation Lifecycle model to demonstrate how these measures can be used to understand and evaluate data quality within the curatorial process. Opportunities for improvement and challenges are identified as areas that are fruitful for future research and exploration.

Staffing and Workflow of a Maturing Institutional Repository

Debora L. Madsen et al. — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:20:35 PST

Institutional repositories (IRs) have become established components of many academic libraries. As an IR matures it will face the challenge of how to scale up its operations to increase the amount and types of content archived. These challenges involve staffing, systems, workflows, and promotion. In the past eight years, Kansas State University's IR (K-REx) has grown from a platform for student theses, dissertations, and reports to also include faculty works. The initial workforce of a single faculty member was expanded as a part of a library-wide reorganization, resulting in a cross-departmental team that is better able to accommodate the expansion of the IR. The resultant need to define staff responsibilities and develop resources to manage the workflows has led to the innovations described here, which may prove useful to the greater library community as other IRs mature.

Open Access and the Author-Pays Problem: Assuring Access for Readers and Authors in a Global Community of Scholars

A. Townsend Peterson et al. — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:20:31 PST

The Librarian's Copyright Companion, 2nd Edition, by James S. Heller, Paul Hellyer, & Benjamin J. Keele

Allyson Mower — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:20:28 PST

'Originality' Revisited: Balancing Tradition and Agility in JLSC

Isaac Gilman et al. — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:20:26 PST

I, Digital: Personal Collections in the Digital Era edited by Christopher Lee

Wilhelmina Randtke — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:25:39 PDT

Collecting Campus Culture: Collaborations and Collisions

Meg Miner et al. — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:25:38 PDT

From the 2007 implementation of Illinois Wesleyan University’s institutional repository (IR), an archivist and special collections librarian and a scholarly communications librarian have worked on its development and expansion from each position’s unique perspective. They have found themselves united on some fronts, but divided at times on big picture questions such as the definition of campus culture and the extent to which the IR should contain products of that culture, how best to describe and structure collections, and who should be responsible for certain collections. Through regular dialogue on these concerns and efforts to understand each other’s perspective, the colleagues’ joint interest in promoting and preserving a broad history of campus culture is being achieved. Examples of how these issues are navigated, recommendations for realizing similar outcomes, and insights into the work remaining are provided.

New Roles, New Responsibilities: Examining Training Needs of Repository Staff

Natasha Simons et al. — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:25:36 PDT

INTRODUCTION Institutional repositories play a critical role in the research lifecycle. Funding agencies are increasingly seeking an improved return on their investment in research. Repositories facilitate this process by providing storage of, and access to, institutional research outputs and, more recently, research data. While repositories are generally managed within the academic library, repository staff require different skills and knowledge compared with traditional library roles. This study reports on a survey of Australasian institutional repository staff to identify skills and knowledge sets. METHODS Institutional repository staff working at universities in Australia and New Zealand were invited to participate in an online survey which incorporated both open and closed-ended question types. RESULTS The survey found significant gaps in the current provision of formal training and coursework related to institutional repositories, which echoed findings in the United Kingdom, Italy, and the United States. DISCUSSION There is clearly a need for more and varied training opportunities for repository professionals. Repository work requires a specific set of skills that can be difficult to find and institutions will benefit from investing in training and ongoing development opportunities for repository staff. CONCLUSION The data from this study could be used to facilitate staff recruitment, development, training, and retention strategies.

Supplemental Content:

Simons, N. & Richardson, J. (2012). Identifying skill sets for repository staff [data file and survey questions]. South Brisbane, Australia: Griffith University Data Registry. Retrieved from

http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/01/503C303E9B551

Understanding and Making Use of Academic Authors’ Open Access Rights

David Hansen — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:25:35 PDT

INTRODUCTION Authors of academic works do not take full advantage of the self-archiving rights that they retain in their publications, though research shows that many academic authors are well-aligned (at least in principle) with open access (OA) principles. This article explains how institutionally-assisted self-archiving in open access repositories can effectively take advantage of retained rights and highlights at least one method of facilitating this process through automated means. METHODS To understand the scope of author-retained rights (including the right to purchase hybrid or other open access options) at some sample universities, author-rights data through the SHERPA/RoMEO API was combined with individual article citations (from Thomson Reuters' Web of Science) for works published over a one-year period (2011) and authored by individuals affiliated with five major U.S. research universities. RESULTS Authors retain significant rights in the articles that they create. Of the 29,322 unique articles authored over the one year period at the five universities, 28.83 percent could be archived in final PDF form and 87.95 percent could be archived as the post-print version. Nearly 43.47 percent also provided authors the choice of purchasing a hybrid paid open access option. DISCUSSION A significant percentage of current published output could be archived with little or no author intervention. With prior approval through an open access policy or otherwise, article manuscripts or final PDFs can be obtained and archived by library staff, and hybrid paid-OA options could be negotiated and exploited by library administrators. CONCLUSION Although mandates, legislation, and other policy tools may be useful to promote open access, many institutions already have the ability to increase the percentage of accessible works by taking advantage of retained author rights and hybrid OA options.

Response to “Is CC BY the Best Open Access License?”

Andras Holl — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:25:33 PDT

This letter is in response to:

Graf, K, Thatcher, S. (2012). Point & Counterpoint: Is CC BY the Best Open Access License?. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 1(1):eP1043. http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1043

“Open Don’t Mean Free”: A Reflection on the Potential Advantages and Disadvantages of Publishing Research via Open Access

Frank C. Manista — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:25:29 PDT

Up from Under the “Open Access” Bus

Paul Royster — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:25:27 PDT

In Memoriam: JQ Johnson

Sarah Shreeves — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:25:27 PDT

A faculty member and Director of Scholarly Communications and Instructional Support at the University of Oregon, JQ Johnson was also a founding editorial board member of the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, and we dedicate this issue to his memory.

A Story to Tell

Marisa Ramirez — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:25:25 PDT

Embedding Repositories: A Guide and Self-Assessment Tool by JISC

Michele I. Wyngard — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:35:37 PDT