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SPARC and the Library Publishing Coalition. Scholarly Communications Lunch and Learn Talk #10 Thursday, April 17, 2014 Office of Scholarly Communication & Publishing University Library System University of Pittsburgh CC BY 3.0 . What is SPARC?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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SPARC and the Library Publishing Coalition
Scholarly Communications Lunch and Learn Talk #10Thursday, April 17, 2014
Office of Scholarly Communication & PublishingUniversity Library SystemUniversity of Pittsburgh
CC BY 3.0
What is SPARC?
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition http://www.sparc.arl.org
A branch of ARL since 1997 An international alliance of 800+ academic and
research libraries – SPARC North America (~200; includes most ARLs)– SPARC Europe– SPARC Japan
SPARC mission
advance open scholarly communication– Open Access to research– Open data– Open educational resources
works with stakeholders to:– expand research dissemination– reduce financial pressures on libraries
“SPARC believes that faster, broader, and more open sharing of the outputs of the scholarly research process increases the impact of research, fuels the advancement of knowledge, and increases the return on research investments.”
SPARC’s Focus
Educating stakeholders about the scholarly communication system
Advocating policy changes that highlight the use of technology to advance schol comm & research dissemination
Incubating new business and publishing models that encourage openness for the benefit of scholarship and academe
SPARC Advocacy
Information and positions on current legislation and policies at national, state, and campus levelshttp://www.sparc.arl.org/advocacy
Also: – Alliance for Taxpayer Access
Patient groups, physicians, researchers, educational institutions, publishers, health promotion organizations
– The Right to Research Coalition Student organizations
SPARC Resources Guidance on issues and best practices:
– OA Data Resource for Research Funders– SPARC Author Addendum– OA publishing funds– Open education speaker list– Primer on article-level metrics– Strategies for Sustaining Open Access
Webcasts on hot topics in scholarly communication Educational materials:
– How Open Is It– What’s New in Open Access
News on OA & scholarly communication activities (not just SPARC)
Library Publishing Coalition (LPC)
Community of academic and research library members in the US and Canada involved in publishing
The LPC is new: formed in 2012 Pitt is in small core of founding members 60 members today Includes university presses but only those with
administrative connection to library
LPC Mission and Vision
promote development of innovative, sustainable publishing services in research libraries to support scholars
advocate for library publishing services articulate the value of library publishing services for
faculty, students, and other stakeholders share information among members address training and education needs
LPC activities in planning Annual Library Publishing Forum ✔ Directory of Library Publishing Services ✔ Conducting new research Developing advocacy and awareness materials and
programs to articulate the value of library publishing. Providing training and learning opportunities Data collection to track trends, needs, and developments Explore collective purchasing arrangements Develop collective marketing strategies that build
exposure for library publishers.
Library Journal Publishing - benchmarkingfaculty driven
journalsstudent
journalsjournals for external publishing partners TOTAL
Cornell 3 1 69 73California Digital Library 28 31 0 59Columbia 14 15 19 48Toronto 25 15 0 40Pitt1 10 10 14 34Alberta 24 6 0 30Western U 10 10 2 22Va Tec 9 1 6 16Indiana U 14 2 0 16Kansas 15 1 0 16Brigham Young 9 3 3 15U British Columbia 7 8 0 15Purdue 11 3 0 14Arizona 5 3 5 13U Mass, Amherst 7 1 5 13
1. Does not include the (49) titles on ULS-hosted Scholarly Exchange service, since the ULS is not the publisher of record for these titles.
Source: Library Publishing Directory, 2013http://www.librarypublishing.org/resources/directory-library-publishing-services
SPARC Open Access MeetingKansas City, MO March 3-4, 2014
Library Publishing ForumKansas City, MO March 5-6, 2014
Tim’s presentation
Open Access publishing at Pitt: alignment with local and global OA policieshttp://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/20684/ Overview of our publishing program Importance of advocacy through national and
international groups How DOAJ and membership in OASPA helped shift
our policies toward more open access
Lauren’s activitiesPresented on the Plum Analytics altmetrics widget at the SPARC Innovation Session.http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/20656/
Presented a poster on the ULS’s e-journal publishing
activities at the LPF http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/20638/
(a few of) Lauren’s Highlights Erin McKiernan’s “Being Open as an Early Career
Researcher” http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.954994
Slide “What can I do?” by Erin McKiernan is licensed under CC-BY 3.0.
(a few of) Lauren’s Highlights Erin McKiernan’s “Being Open as an Early Career Researcher”
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.954994
Impromptu discussion on creating an “Open Access Pledge” site for ECRs.
The start of PKP’s online LibraryPublishing course
Enjoying the art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, just down the road from the hotel:
(a few of) Lauren’s Highlights: see the rest on Storify
https://storify.com/parnopaeus/highlight-from-lpforum
https://storify.com/parnopaeus/sparc2014-twitter-highlights
John’s activity Presented on
Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/20662/
Discussed editorial quality for OA journals
Discussed PlumX and altmetrics activities
John’s highlights - OER
Open educational resources and open textbooks– Hot topic!– Seems like a natural fit– Faculty create these items already– Directly addresses student costs in higher education– Shouldn’t interfere with tenure, publication prestige
John’s highlights - DORA
San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
Initiated by American Society for Cell Biology, editors, publishers (December 2012)
“Improving the ways in which the outputs of scientific research are evaluated”
http://am.ascb.org/dora/
1 general recommendation
“Do not use journal-based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, as surrogate measures of the quality of individual research articles, to assess an individual scientist’s contributions, or in hiring, promotion, or funding decisions”
17 specific recommendations
Organizations supplying metrics– Provide access to data
Publishers– Don’t promote journals by Impact Factor
Research institutions– Scientific content of a paper, not the JIF, is what matters
Researchers– Change the culture!
Funding agencies– Consider value from all outputs and outcomes generated by
research
John’s highlights - Meeting others
Kimberly Chapman, Repository Services Manager at University of Arizona
Adrian Ho, Director of Digital Scholarship, University of Kentucky, and author of this article
Gail McMillan, Director of Digital Research & Scholarship Services, Virginia Tech
Karen Meijer-Kline, Public Knowledge Project
Oh, and this . . .
Fiorella’s Jack Stack Barbecue, Kansas City, MO http://www.jackstackcatering.com/images/full/1a.jpg
Faculty to Liaison Librarian:
“Have you heard about some bill on public access to science and technology research? I think it was introduced by Mike Doyle, our U.S. Representative. Should we really be spending more money on this? I mean, most researchers in our field already have access to research papers, right?”
Questions, comments . . .