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Hip-Hop Librarianship for Scholarly Communication: An Approach to Introducing Topic
(ALI Scholarly Communication Librarianship Conference, 2018-10-26) Boston, Arthur J.
Hip-Hop music, business, distribution, and culture exhibit highly comparable trends in the scholarly communication and publication industry. This presentation discusses Hip-Hop artists and research authors as content creators, each operating within marketplaces still adjusting to digital, online connectivity. These discussions are intended for classroom use, where students may access their existing knowledge framework of popular media and apply it to a new understanding of the scholarly communication environment. Research instructors and librarians may discover new perspectives to familiar issues through conversations with students engaging with this material in a novel way.
ALI Scholarly Communication Librarianship Conference 2018 Conference Handouts
(Academic Libraries of Indiana, 2018-10-26) Finlay, Stephen Craig
Conference program and presenter biographies.
Why copyright matters (or does it?)
(Academic Libraries of Indiana, 2018-10-26) Buttler, Dwayne
Copyright is omnipresent in scholarly communication (and teaching, learning, research, digital technology, music, video, okay, you get the idea). Protection happens automatically under copyright law, leaving users to ponder strategies for managing copyright challenges and make meaningful decisions about using copyrighted works. Copyright provides some exceptions that permit specific uses, including fair use, and offers a foundation to reframe some sharing relationships through licensing (contract) strategies – think publication agreement, Creative Commons, and other positive licensing possibilities. This conversation will introduce you to the principles of copyright and frame a few central issues of scholarly communication, emphasizing your questions and thoughts on how copyright influences your work.
Visualizing Scholarly Communication
(Academic Libraries of Indiana, 2018-10-26) Collins, Nina; Hannah, Matthew
University libraries across the country are investing in Digital Humanities and digital scholarship initiatives, providing support for research and teaching using digital tools and methods. Because digital scholarship offers scholars new ways to visualize and analyze their research, which communicates such research in new ways, it has clear lines of connection with scholarly communications. Combining these two unique areas of library activity offers opportunities for new library research by leveraging methods from DH to tackle problems in scholarly communications. Researchers at Purdue are collaborating on just such a project by applying digital tools to the analysis of predatory publishing. In this presentation, we apply the digital tool VOS Viewer to visualize the map of citations and publications surrounding the scholarship on predatory publishing practices. Practicing what Digital Humanists call “distant reading,” or the macroanalysis of systems as a way to see bigger structures, we demonstrate the interconnection of central concepts. In our presentation we will showcase the tool for interested librarians and share our analysis of results, including linkages between “access” and “openness” with “predatory.” Visualizing the larger structure of predatory publishing will showcase the larger issues central to scholars.
Another World is Possible: Expanding the Imaginary of Scholarly Metrics
(Academic Libraries of Indiana, 2018-10-26) Szydlowski, Nick
Elsevier, the world’s largest scholarly publisher, now describes itself as an “information analytics business”. While this rebranding may strike librarians as an Orwellian turn, it is also a sign of the prestige and attractiveness that metrics and analytics possess, both to the investor class and in the dean’s suite. The market for scholarly metrics is growing, and it is not hard to imagine a near future where vendor-supplied data on the impact of scholarship holds ever more influence over the decisions and priorities of academic institutions. But scholarly metrics are deeply flawed. They are rarely valid across disciplines or even sub-disciplines, they are easily and frequently gamed, they recreate entrenched biases, and they deeply influence the form and content of the scholarship they are intended to measure. Embedding these metrics more deeply into discovery tools and workflows will only deepen the distortions they produce in the process of scholarly communication.
Creating Metadata for Institutional Repositories
(Academic Libraries of Indiana, 2018-10-26) Opasik, Scott A.
Scott will describe how Indiana University South Bend uses metadata to describe and provide access to objects in IUScholarWorks, the campus' institutional repository. The presentation will cover the Dublin Core elements, developing an application profile, and using constant data to ensure consistency of data and to document decisions. Other topics discussed include adapting metadata creation to the web search environment, authority control, and preservation formats for repository objects.
A Method for Verifying Indicators of Journal Quality
(Academic Libraries of Indiana, 2018-10-26) Odell, Jere; Polley, David Edward
A recent search of the UlrichsWeb Global Serials Directory for active, digital, peer reviewed, scholarly journals shows that world’s academic articles are published in more than 58,500 journals. By one estimate the growth of new journal titles increases by 2.5% ever year (Ware & Mabe, 2015). At the same time, universities are adopting researcher information systems that provide administrators and other campus stakeholders with nearly complete bibliographic data for all articles published by their faculty authors. As campus leaders work to make sense of this data, they may turn to their library for help. Questions may include: Are all of these new or previously unencountered journal titles legitimate? Who are the main publishers of our articles? What are the emerging trends that promotion and tenure committees should consider? The most common way to address these questions involves significant shortcomings--proprietary subscription databases, like Scopus, Web of Science, and Academic Analytics, have limited coverage of the journal literature and, by design, are unlikely to include newer and lesser known journal titles. At the same time many universities publish thousands of articles per year, manually checking each article submitted to a faculty annual review database would prove to be a tedious and lengthy process. To reduce the labor involved in identifying indicators of journal quality, we have developed a method using open source software and open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). In specific, our method reduces the labor in identifying the publishers for a long list of journals and in identifying the access model for these journals (subscription-only or open access). To do this we wrote an R script that uses the SHERPA RoMEO and the DOAJ APIs. Using this method permitted us to quickly identify the journals that needed closer inspection. This method will help others that are working to verify journal quality in large data sets without relying on problematic, journal blacklists.
Five Years of Funding Open Access APCs: Where Did the Money Go?
(Academic Libraries of Indiana, 2018-10-28) Odell, Jere; Anne, Hima Varsha
In 2013 the IUPUI University Library, in coordination with the IUPUI Office for the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR), launched an open access publishing fund. Following a successful two year pilot, the Fund has been supported annually with financial contributions from the University Library, the OVCR, the Ruth Lilly Medical Library, and eleven schools on the IUPUI campus. The Fund has provided more than $200,000.00 in support of fully open access journal articles, conference proceedings, and monographs over 5 years. In this session we describe the IUPUI Open Access Fund’s implementation model and we provide a report on its outcomes--including, the authors’ research areas, the journals and publishers supported, and the change in article processing charge rates over time.
The 2.5% Commitment: 2.5% of Whom?
(Academic Libraries of Indiana, 2018-10-26) Martin, Shawn
David Lewis proposed that libraries should commit approximately 2.5% of their budgets toward the creation of open access infrastructure for publishing. Though one can question the exact number necessary to accomplish these goals, the principle is laudable. Yet, there is another challenge. Librarians should not only commit 2.5% of their own internal resources; they also need to commit themselves to building a community containing at least 2.5% of faculty (across all disciplines), academic administrators (such as deans and grant managers), research funders (like the NSF or the Gates Foundation), and perhaps even some publishers (University presses and other open access ventures). Why is this important? As a historian of scholarly communication, I can say that the system has always been in part about creating a community to disseminate research. The question of who should and who should not be in that community has evolved over time. In the 1840s, professional scholars sought to create exclusive domains including only a small number of people. One hundred years later with increasing government money, the public became a part of the community. Now, if librarians want to create a new scholarly communication system, it will be necessary to determine what community we want to build for the future, and how both 2.5% of our money and 2.5% of the community can come together to create that new system.
Furthering Open: Tips for Crafting an IR Deposit Service
(Academic Libraries of Indiana, 2018-10-26) Hare, Sarah; Hoops, Jenny
Throughout the 2017-2018 academic year, Indiana University Bloomington piloted a CV Service to all faculty members interested in depositing their scholarly body of work into the institutional repository. The goal of the pilot was to streamline deposit for faculty, promote repository ease of use and helpfulness of staff, and provide a clear mechanism for faculty interested in depositing and promoting a large amount of their work at once. The CV Service Pilot was an important strategic addition to the department’s suite of services, which also includes data publishing assistance, an open access journal publishing program, and, most recently, assisting with the operationalization of a campus-wide open access policy. We will utilize statistics collected from the pilot and synthesize lessons learned for communicating with publishers and faculty, estimating resources needed, and promoting the service. We will also present modules of the CV Service workflow for participants interested in streamlining deposit but without the resources needed to launch a dedicated service. For example, the service utilized an assistance authorization form, which gave library staff permission to complete all of the rights checking, publisher contact, and deposit needed to make faculty work available openly. This form could be immediately adopted by librarians interested in increasing deposits. Most importantly, our presentation will summarize how the CV service shaped departmental open access outreach to make it more proactive and realistic, centering faculty strategies for retaining author rights and retention of article versions (i.e. pre-prints and post-prints) in order to make open possible.
Opting out is not an option: Why all academic librarians must understand open access
(Academic Libraries of Indiana, 2018-10-26) Cirasella, Jill
This presentation challenges the still-too-prevalent notion that scholarly communication competencies are essential only for scholarly communication librarians and optional for other academic librarians. The session will focus on one competency in particular: a robust understanding of open access. Specific ways in which open access factors into a wide array of academic librarian roles -- or, at the very least, into performing those roles well -- will be covered as well. Together, we will consider whether open access literacy should be a job requirement, and crowdsource ideas for encouraging and advancing open access literacy among our colleagues.
Combatting predatory publishing platforms such as Academia.edu
(Academic Libraries of Indiana, 2018-10-26) Benson, Sara; Enimil, Sandra
This panel, comprised of copyright and scholarly communication experts, will address an inherent contradiction in academic publishing: scholars want to share their work and need to obtain citation counts and other metrics provided by conglomerates such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate, but they often violate copyright restrictions when posting published work to these websites. The panel will discuss author’s rights and basic copyright rules, why academia.edu and ResearchGate have been labeled “predatory” by the panel, and how to combat predatory practices through knowledge of your rights, copyright negotiation with publishers, institutional repositories, and open access.
One review at a time: A conversation on community and change
(Academic Libraries of Indiana, 2018-10-26) Schlosser, Melanie; Newton, Mark
The Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication will give a wide-ranging keynote address covering territory from the history of the journal to the current state of scholarly communications librarianship. Conversational in format, this talk will invite attendees to grapple with some big questions, including “Who are our ‘peers’ in the scholarly communications world?” and “What are the major challenges and opportunities we should be focused on as a community?”

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