Event Title
Getting Real Faculty Engagement and Buy-In on Scholarly Communication Issues
Location
Room 205, Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
Start Date
1-8-2014 9:00 AM
End Date
1-8-2014 9:30 AM
Description
This presentation will focus on the author's experiences with different strategies at different institutions to interest faculty in scholarly communication issues (with a sub-focus on the institutional repository and the value proposition for them in supporting, using, and linking their scholarship to it). At the University of California, Santa Barbara and within the UC system at large, this issue has both a local and system-wide application, and the author's 5-year experience with the Scholarly Communication Officer (SCO) program in the 10-campus system. At Valparaiso University, a concerted effort to link the library to copyright and author's rights, as well as the crisis in scholarly publishing, had real tangible effects during the author's first year as Dean of Library Services. Along the same lines, an investment in working with faculty to link their curriculum vitaes and scholarship through ValpoScholar (both in time and money for copyright) has resulted in almost 1 million links to the repository in its first 3 1/2 years of existence.
Getting Real Faculty Engagement and Buy-In on Scholarly Communication Issues
Room 205, Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
This presentation will focus on the author's experiences with different strategies at different institutions to interest faculty in scholarly communication issues (with a sub-focus on the institutional repository and the value proposition for them in supporting, using, and linking their scholarship to it). At the University of California, Santa Barbara and within the UC system at large, this issue has both a local and system-wide application, and the author's 5-year experience with the Scholarly Communication Officer (SCO) program in the 10-campus system. At Valparaiso University, a concerted effort to link the library to copyright and author's rights, as well as the crisis in scholarly publishing, had real tangible effects during the author's first year as Dean of Library Services. Along the same lines, an investment in working with faculty to link their curriculum vitaes and scholarship through ValpoScholar (both in time and money for copyright) has resulted in almost 1 million links to the repository in its first 3 1/2 years of existence.