Transitioning to open access (OA)

First Monday ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Struik ◽  
Hilde Coldenbrander ◽  
Stephen Warren ◽  
Halina de Maurivez ◽  
Heather Joseph ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Association Of Research Libraries ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
Full Day ◽  
Academic Resources ◽  
Broad Overview

This paper presents a summary of three presentations: Heather Joseph of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) on key advocacy strategies, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries’s (CARL) Kathleen Shearer on the CARL Institutional Repository program and forthcoming CARL Author’s Addendum, and Heather Morrison on the Canadian Library Association’s (CLA) Task Force on Open Access. The presentations were followed by a one–hour workshop, with about 50 participants including librarians from Canada and elsewhere, publishers, and others. Workshop exercises, designed for the expert audience anticipated at the First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, were developed to elicit a broad overview of open access initiatives underway, issues and barriers to open access, and solutions to overcome them. Participants reported being engaged in a wide variety of open access initiatives, from OA publishing and institutional repositories to a recent commitment to devote a percentage of a university budget to OA. Two solutions the workshop participants saw as key for open access were finding a funding solution (possibly re–deploying collections and acquisitions budgets or earmarking grants funds for knowledge transfer), and branding repositories as containing trustable material. The workshop portion could have been expanded considerably, to a half or full day. Results of the workshop will help to inform the work of the CLA Task Force on Open Access.

An Assessment of e-Theses Metadata in CARL Institutional Repositories

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Richard ◽  
Eun G. Park.
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Association Of Research Libraries ◽  
Canadian Association

The goals of this project are: 1) to analyze metadata element sets used by CARL (Canadian Association of Research Libraries) institutional repositories to describe electronic dissertations and theses; and, 2) based on the analysis, to suggest a prototype for metadata schemes to serve as a standard model for further implementation.Les buts de ce projet sont : 1) analyser les éléments de métadonnées utilisés par les dépôts institutionnels de l’ABRC (Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada) pour décrire les mémoires et thèses électroniques ; et 2) d’après cette analyse, suggérer un prototype de schéma de métadonnées pouvant servir de modèle normalisé et être éventuellement mis en œuvre.

Research Data Services: Partnerships

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibraheem Ali ◽  
Thea Atwood ◽  
Renata Curty ◽  
Jimmy Ghaphery ◽  
Tim McGeary ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Research Support ◽  
Data Services ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Association Of Research Libraries ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Continuum

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL)/Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Joint Task Force on Research Data Services (RDS) formed in 2020 with a two-fold purpose: (1) to demonstrate and commit to the roles research libraries have in stewarding research data and as part of institution-wide research support services and (2) to guide the development of resources for the ARL and CARL memberships in advancing their organizations as collaborative partners with respect to research data services in the context of FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) data principles and the US National Academies’ Open Science by Design framework. Research libraries will be successful in meeting these objectives if they act collectively and are deeply engaged with disciplinary communities. The task force formed three working groups of data practitioners, representing a wealth of expertise, to research the institutional landscape and policy environment in both the US and Canada. This report of the ARL/CARL RDS task force’s working group on partnerships highlights library RDS programs’ work with partners and stakeholders. The report provides a set of tools for libraries to use when assessing their RDS partnerships, including assessing partnerships using a partnership life cycle, defining the continuum of possible partnerships, and creating a catalog. Not all partnerships will last the entirety of a librarian’s career, and having clear parameters for when to continue or sunset a partnership can reduce ambiguity and free up resources. Recognizing the continuum of possible partnerships can provide the framework by which librarians can understand the nature of each group. From cyclical to seasonal to sporadic, understanding the needs of a type of partnership can help libraries frame their understanding and meet a group where they are. Finally, creating a catalog of partnerships can help libraries see the landscape of the organization, as well as areas for growth. This approach also aligns with OCLC’s 2020 report on Social Interoperability in Research Support: Cross-Campus Partnerships and the University Research Enterprise, which highlights the necessity of building and stewarding partnerships. Developing and providing services in a decentralized organization relies on the ability to build trusted relationships. These tools will help libraries achieve sustainable growth that is in concert with their partners, generating robust, clearly aligned initiatives that benefit all parties, their campuses, and their communities.

scholarly journals New Wine in Old Bottles: Current Developments in Digital Delivery and Dissemination

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Ayris
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
European Research ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Large Form ◽  
European Universities ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
New Development ◽  
University College London ◽  
Digital Delivery

The purpose of this paper is to identify and assess current developments in scholarly publishing in Europe. Current models for disseminating content have limitations and Open Access models of publishing have been endorsed by the European Universities Association. The Harvard mandate for the deposit of materials in Open Access repositories is a bold new development, and the community is watching it with interest. It is possible that e-books may be the next large form of content to be made available to the user. Users certainly express interest in using this form of material. However, current library systems need to be developed in order to cope with this mass of new content. E-theses, available in Open Access from institutional repositories, are a form of content that is made much more visible than the paper equivalents. The DART-Europe portal, supported by LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) currently provides access to 100,000 research theses in 150 European Universities. At an institutional and academic level, however, much remains to be done to embed Open Access into the landscape: the current situation is described in a new report for UCL (University College London), produced by RAND Europe.

scholarly journals Academic Librarians and Research: A Study of Canadian Library Administrator Perspectives

2013 ◽  
Vol 74 (6) ◽  
pp. 560-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selinda Adelle Berg ◽  
Heidi LM Jacobs ◽  
Dayna Cornwall
Keyword(s):  
Future Climate ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Association Of Research Libraries ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
Academic Librarianship

Within the literature exploring the role of research in academic librarianship, very little attention has been paid to the perspectives of upper library administrators. This perspective is critical because library administrators play a key role in hiring, evaluating, supporting, promoting, and tenuring professional librarians. As a way of bringing the administrative perspective to these discussions, our study examines how library administrators within the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) view the role of research in their own libraries and within academic librarianship, as well as how they perceive the current and future climate for librarians’ research. Our study reveals key areas in need of further research and identifies several issues that librarians and upper administrators would benefit from exploring together to advance discussions about research.

scholarly journals Maps as Special Collections: Bibliographic Control of Hidden Material at Yale University

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd Fell
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
National Program ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Association Of Research Libraries ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Subsequent Publication

In the years following the 2003 conference on “Exposing Hidden Collections,” held at the Library of Congress—and the subsequent publication of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Task Force on Special Collections’ white paper entitled Hidden Collections, Scholarly Barriers: Creating Access to Unprocessed Special Collections Materials in America’s Research Libraries—many institutions and repositories have made concerted efforts to address the formidable challenges involved in “exposing” unprocessed and/or underprocessed collections. Exemplary efforts range from a national program initiated by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation “to identify and catalog . . .

scholarly journals Bringing Rare Books to Light: The State of the Profession

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa A. Hubbard ◽  
Ann K.D. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
White Paper ◽  
The State ◽  
Professional Discourse ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Association Of Research Libraries ◽  
Agenda Item ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Rare Books

When the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) released the results of its 1998 survey of special collections, the backlog of unprocessed and uncataloged collections emerged as one of the most serious and daunting issues facing the profession. An increasingly enthusiastic professional discourse about the “hidden collections” problem, as it became known, has developed as a result. The ARL Special Collections Task Force, convened in 2001 and dissolved in 2006, focused on exposing hidden collections as a top agenda item, and produced the much-cited white paper, “Hidden Collections, Scholarly Barriers.” This active discourse has also induced a flurry of articles and . . .

scholarly journals Dealing with Data: Science Librarians’ Participation in Data Management at Association of Research Libraries Institutions

2014 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 557-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Antell ◽  
Jody Bales Foote ◽  
Jaymie Turner ◽  
Brian Shults
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Funding Agency ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Association Of Research Libraries

As long as empirical research has existed, researchers have been doing “data management” in one form or another. However, funding agency mandates for doing formal data management are relatively recent, and academic libraries’ involvement has been concentrated mainly in the last few years. The National Science Foundation implemented a new mandate in January 2011, requiring researchers to include a data management plan with their proposals for funding. This has prompted many academic libraries to work more actively than before in data management, and science librarians in particular are uniquely poised to step into new roles to meet researchers’ data management needs. This study, a survey of science librarians at institutions affiliated with the Association of Research Libraries, investigates science librarians’ awareness of and involvement in institutional repositories, data repositories, and data management support services at their institutions. The study also explores the roles and responsibilities, both new and traditional, that science librarians have assumed related to data management, and the skills that science librarians believe are necessary to meet the demands of data management work. The results reveal themes of both uncertainty and optimism—uncertainty about the roles of librarians, libraries, and other campus entities; uncertainty about the skills that will be required; but also optimism about applying “traditional” librarian skills to this emerging field of academic librarianship.

scholarly journals Canadian Research Librarians have Little Time for Scholarship

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Pamela Haley
Keyword(s):  
Research University ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Association Of Research Libraries ◽  
Professional Responsibilities ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
University Professor ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Canadian Research

A review of: Fox, David. “Finding Time for Scholarship: A Survey of Canadian Research University Librarians.” Portal: Libraries and the Academy 7.4 (2007): 451-62. Objective – To provide comparative data from Canadian research universities regarding the time spent on scholarly activities by research librarians. Design – Qualitative study employing a bilingual survey consisting of thirty-nine questions. Setting – Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) located at the twenty-seven CARL universities during the spring and fall of 2006. Subjects – CARL university librarians for whom e-mail addresses could be retrieved. Methods – The survey was distributed to 1052 CARL librarians during the spring and fall of 2006 via e-mail. Problems with the clarity of two questions became evident during the receipt of responses. The questions were revised and resubmitted to the same population. Main Results – Five hundred and twenty responses (49.4%) were received, with 441 (84.8%) in English and 15.2% in French. A total of 53 surveys were unusable, leaving 467 (44.4%) cases as the basis for data analysis. Responses to the survey revealed that 51.4% of participants were required or encouraged to undertake scholarship. Of these, 35% were expected, in addition to sabbatical and study leaves, to make scholarship an integral and ongoing part of their professional responsibilities. Due to the individualized and subjective nature of the responses, no clear data emerged on the balance between scholarship and other professional activities. The majority of research librarians, on average, spent less than five hours per week on scholarship activities. For the 290 full-time librarians surveyed, the average time spent per week on all activities (professional and scholarly) was 47.4 hours. Almost one third of the full time librarians worked fifty hours or more per week – the equivalent to the time commitment of the average university professor. Participants indicated that in an ideal world they would like to spend 10% less time on assigned duties. Francophone respondents spent 5% more of their time on professional responsibilities and 5% less time on scholarship. Participation rates in scholarship related leaves are low, with less than 25% of those surveyed engaging in these opportunities. Conclusion – Based on the study’s findings, research librarians are not participating in scholarship to any great degree due to the perceived lack of time.

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