Presenter Name

Host InstitutionDate

ACRL Scholarly Communications Roadshow: From Understanding to Engagement

Introduction to the Scholarly Communication System

Learning Outcomes

• Understand that the scholarly communications system is made up of many interlocking systems

• Understand the basic, traditional iterations in the lifecycle of scholarship

• Identify how disruptions are changing the traditional system of scholarly communication

Looking through the lens of libraries:

TeachingLearningResearch

Major participants in the life cycle of scholarly publishing

researchersauthors

foundations

scholarly societies

federal agenciescolleges and universities

publisherslibraries

taxpaying public

systems

IP/legal system

publishing industry

scholarly societies

faculty rewards system (p&t)

Internet culture

disciplinary practice

higher education

research industry

Formulation

Registration

Certification

Dissemination

Preservation

Iterations in the life cycle of scholarship

AcademicLibraryPublisher

Editor

Peer Reviewers

CreationManuscript & ©

DisseminationPublication (Registration and Certification)

Reformulation

disruption:

Economic model is unsustainable

cost

AcademicLibrary

budget

Publisher

Editor

Peer Reviewers

Creation©

DisseminationPublication (Registration and Certification)

Pressure points

disruption:

Web

internet

creationpublicationdisseminationreformulation

Scholars are beginning to exploit

the power of the Web

internet

creationpublicationdisseminationreformulation

PUB

ED

P-R

LIB

What role, then, for publishers and libraries?

?

How can we/they add value in a new system?

Function Old System New System

Formulation Alone or in laboratory with graduate students and colleagues

And…With colleagues all over the web

Registration Journal submissionBook publicationConference presentationWorking paper / Technical Report

And…BlogsDisciplinary repositoriesOpen notebooks

Certification Publishers through peer reviewUniversities indirectly through promotion and tenure

And…Accuracy/good science review (PloS One)Open peer review

Dissemination LibrariesPublishers – journals and

monographsScholarly societies thru

publications & conferencesAbstract and Indexing Services

And…BlogsRepositoriesGoogle and other web search enginesFunding agency mandates

Archiving Libraries And…Collaborations like Portico & Hathi TrustDisciplinary and institutional repositoriesPublishers

disruption:

Open Movement

disruption: Open Movement

• Open access to scholarship

• Public access to taxpayer funded research

• Social movements toward sharing and remix

Market

University

Public Policy

Tra

nsfo

rm

Goal: Build capacity to integrate scholarly

communications awareness and transform our work as

academic librarians

Questions?Comments?

This work was created by Lee Van Orsdel and modified by Sarah L Shreeves for the ACRL National Conference, Scholarly

Communications 101 Workshop and last updated by Sarah Shreeves on April 26, 2012.

It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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