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Subject: Join free ACRL OnPoint Chat: Conversational openings with faculty about scholarly communication

Thursday, March 4, 2010: Conversational openings with faculty about scholarly communication
(11 a.m. Pacific | 12:00 p.m. Mountain | 1:00 p.m. Central | 2:00 p.m. Eastern)

Are you interested in talking with faculty on your campus about scholarly communication issues, but not sure where to start? Have you had success in starting the discussion naturally? Share your strategies and ask colleagues for advice during this month's OnPoint chat, convened by the authors of the February C&RL News column on this topic. Also, see ACRL’s Scholarly Communication Toolkit with twelve cases, integrating information from throughout the Toolkit, to help you recognize opportunities. Discuss ways to raise scholarly communication issues which come up in a variety of settings when interacting with faculty. Librarians can often take advantage of these opportunities to increase awareness of those issues and new developments in scholarly publishing. Discussions may result in a faculty member’s use of, and support for, new services created by the library’s scholarly communication initiatives. Some faculty may even become advocates for introducing changes in the institution’s strategies of disseminating locally generated scholarly content This month's chat convened by Dan Lee, Director, Office of Copyright Management & Scholarly Communication at the University of Arizona Library, and Adrian Ho, Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University of Western Ontario.

ACRL OnPoint is a live series of informal monthly chat sessions that provide the opportunity to connect with colleagues and experts to discuss an issue of the day in academic and research librarianship. All ACRL OnPoint chats are free and open to the public. Sessions are unmoderated, 30-45 minutes in length and take place in a Meebo chat room. A transcript of the chat will be made available.

Meebo chat rooms have a limit of 80 total participants. Due to this restriction, ACRL OnPoint discussions will be delivered on a first-come-first-served basis. While no registration is necessary to participate, ACRL recommends creating a quick and easy Meebo account for the best experience while participating in ACRL OnPoint discussions/events. Find the link to chat and full details online.

What the Steering Committee says we'll do...

Alan will edit this post based on 2/16/10 Steering Committee discussions

What the grant proposal says we'll do...

C. Enhancing Access to Institutional Scholarly Output
Objective: To make the scholarly and research output of the participating institutions more visible and accessible through individual campus and consortial activities.

Development of Campus Plans.

While significant scholarly output is created by faculty at all Ohio Five institutions, each campus is at a different stage in terms of developing content for its institutional repository, including the extent to which it is making institutional scholarly output available. Some campuses have had public programs and informal discussions with faculty regarding such questions as author control of copyright and the value of openly archiving their scholarly work. At one campus, faculty are actively considering an open access policy similar to the one adopted by the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 2008. At other campuses, such discussions have not yet begun. Therefore, each campus will establish its own plan for showcasing its scholarly and research output and making it available in the institutional repository.

Campus-Plan Activities.

Campus plans may include, but are not limited to, the following types of activities:

• Workshops to educate faculty and students about their intellectual property rights as authors and creators of works – and the value of making their works openly accessible. Such programs may be for a single campus or multiple campuses;
• Projects by select faculty, working in collaboration with librarians, to make their retrospective scholarly output openly accessible;
• Projects by librarians, in consultation with faculty, to identify current institutional scholarly outputs (primarily peer-reviewed articles) and make them available through the institutional repository;
• Projects to encourage making students’ honors theses and independent study papers openly accessible through the institutional repository;
• Faculty discussions about open access policies; and
• Workshops that showcase the work done at individual campuses (road shows).
  

Projects carried out by faculty working in collaboration with librarians or librarians in consultation with faculty will be proposed, funded, and assessed according to a process similar to that used for curriculum development digitization projects. Each campus will develop both the process and the criteria for submitting and awarding project grants, based on general criteria suggested by the Steering Committee.

Content to be Covered.

The scholarly output that will be addressed by the campus plans can include both current and retrospective works. While an emphasis will be placed on peer-reviewed articles, honors theses, and independent study projects, other types of materials (such as images, video, and audio) may be considered, as long as they reflect quality work by faculty or students that the institution wishes to highlight. Curricular materials, such as syllabi or learning objects, may also be included. Both faculty and students will be expected to have the intellectual property rights or permission to make such works openly accessible.

-- We will be drawing, where appropriate, upon the work of Lewis Hyde, Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College and Berkman Fellow at Harvard University, who is leading the Educational Fair Use Project. For more information see http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/freedomtoteach and Appendix E.