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New roles and repsonsibilities for librarians
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Open Access in
South Africa New roles and responsibilities for new imperatives
Ina Smith
23 September 2014
SA Bill of Rights (SA Constitution)
Everybody has the right to …
Information
Education
http://constitutionallyspeaking.co.za/bill-of-rights/Infomration
http://www.belgrade-meu.org/beum-herald/
Human Development Index
Country HDI Life
expectancy
Expected
years of
schooling
Gross
national
income per
capita ($)
1 Norway 0.944 81.5 17.6 63.909
57 Russian
Federation
0.778 68.0 14.0 22.617
79 Brazil 0.744 73.9 15.2 14.275
91 China 0.719 75.3 12.9 11.477
118 South Africa 0.658 56.9 13.1 11.788
135 India 0.586 66.4 11.7 5.150
United Nations Development Programme (2014) http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/table-1-human-development-index-and-its-components
long and healthy life - access to knowledge - decent standard of living
Opening access to information for a
better educated nation, that has a
higher life expectancy …
“Universities and researchers are
coming under increasing pressure to
demonstrate the wider impact that their funded research has beyond the
end of the research project.”
Manchester Univ. eScholar Blog (2012)
Crises in education … “Provide long-
term solutions to the deep-seated educational and publishing crises in
Africa.” (Raju et al. 2014)
Open Access for SA
“Open access promotes the distribution of
scholarly literature for the growth and
development of research and society -
connecting researcher, society and development.” (Raju et al. 2014)
“The issue of connectedness highlights the fact
that the research process is only complete
when the end product is distributed as widely as
possible.” (Raju et al. 2014)
Open Access Journals
Open Access Journals
Systems support: software installation,
upgrades, back-up’s, digital preservation
Training and continuous support,
communication
Identify and implement new trends, e.g.
ORCID (South African Journal of Library
and Information Science)
Identify opportunities to increase visibility
Demonstrating impact
Institutional Repositories
Institutional repositories are becoming the
mainstream responsibility of the library (Raju
et al. 2014)
Number of institutions have developed
roles with responsibility specifically for the
institution’s repository
Job titles: Repository
Administrator/Manager/ Scholarly
Communications Manager
Repository management - extension of
the role and responsibility of the Systems
Librarian, Acquisitions Librarian, Research
Librarian, Law Librarian and Specialist:
Records, Management and Archival
Services
Understanding of …
Scholarly communication practices of
individual disciplines, even as they are
rapidly evolving
Scholars’ use of pre-publication research
material
Support pace of scientific discovery,
encourage innovation, enrich education,
stimulate economy
Responsibilities Solicit prime research output for ingestion into
repositories
Advocate for OA & publishing in OA journals
Influence the development of alternative metrics (Altmetrics)
Interpret & apply copyright, publishers’ restrictions and embargoes – clear rights
Creative Commons Licenses
Negotiate rights with publishers
Protect & preserve local content – strengthen intellectual capacity
Identify OA resources to address needs
Evaluate resources – quality information
‘Uploaders’- sharing information
Improving usage and impact of research output
Research Data Management
Development of policies for the collection and dissemination of published research output either in pre-print, post-print or the publisher’s version format
Task force on librarians’
competencies …
… in support of e-research and scholarly communication
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER)
Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/support-and-training/
task-force-competencies/
Task force scope of work
Identify service areas for libraries within the
context of e-research, repository
management & scholarly communication
Map the services & roles to the competencies
required by librarians and library professionals
Note array of organizational models evolving
to support new services
Produce a toolkit that will help to build
capacity in libraries for supporting new roles
(Kuchma et al. 2014)
Competency areas
Research Data Management (RDM)
Scholarly Communication & Open Access
(OA)
Digital Humanities (DH)
(Kuchma et al. 2014)
Competency area: Research Data Management (RDM)
Core competencies
Providing access to data
Advocacy & support for managing data
Managing data collections
Related service areas & roles
OA & institutional repositories, collection development, advisory services (copyright, policies, etc.), information literacy, digital curation, digital preservation, digital collections
(Kuchma et al. 2014)
To work with
Digital Repository Librarian, Subject
Librarian, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Digital
Humanities Librarian
(Kuchma et al. 2014)
Competency area: Scholarly Communication & OA
Core competencies
Scholarly publishing services
Copyright & OA advocacy & outreach
Scholarly resource assessment
Related service areas & roles
Research data management, collection
development, advisory services (copyright,
policies, etc.), information literacy
(Kuchma et al. 2014)
To work with
Digital Repository Librarian, Subject
Librarian, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Digital
Humanities Librarian
(Kuchma et al. 2014)
Competency area: Digital Humanities (DH)
Core competencies
Scholarly communication & publishing
Technical services & collection management
Digital lifecycle information management
Client engagement & training
Related service areas & roles
Repository Manager, Data Manager & Scholarly Communication Librarian
(Kuchma et al. 2014)
To work with
Digital Repository Librarian, Subject
Librarian, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Digital
Humanities Librarian
(Kuchma et al. 2014)
Next … Reviewing draft profiles & engaging in
describing other service areas: Digital preservation: Digital Curation, Metadata, Research Support, Instructional Services, Repository Management, Digital Initiatives, Technology Services
Clustering competencies/specializations
Developing an online toolkit that will allow library managers
Provide an outline of new organizational models for libraries
(Kuchma et al. 2014)
Recommendations
All librarians – OA not exclusive
Training & self-learning (lifelong learners)
More collaboration between institutions,
e.g. SEALS Consortium to overcome
logistical issues
“We think of ourselves far too frequently as
just individuals, separated from one
another, whereas you are connected and
what you do affects the whole world. When
you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole
of humanity”.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
South African librarians …
The future is OPEN
Bibliography Kuchma, I et al., Librarians’ Competencies in Support of
E-Research and Scholarly Communication, LIBER 43rd
Annual Conference, Riga July 4, 2014
Raju, R, Raju, J & Smith, I, 2014, South Africa: the role of
open access in promoting local content, increasing its
usage and impact and protecting it [unpublished]
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