1.
Roles for Academic Libraries in Supporting
Open Scholarship
Brian Rosenblum
Charles University, October 26 2009

2.
Open Access
Digital, online, free of charge and free of
most copyright and licensing restrictions
(Peter Suber)
Eliminates technical, economic and legal
barriers to access and use
Goal is to maximize usage, impact, value
and progress of research
OA has an ethical rationale, plus technical,
economic, research, and other rationales.

3.
“To what extent should the
institutions that support the
creation of scholarship and
research take responsibility for
its dissemination as well?”
-Karla Hahn
Association of Research Libraries

4.
New Roles for Academic Libraries
Providing stewardship over locally produced
scholarship and ensuring that it is accessible
to an external, worldwide audience
Working directly with faculty and research
units before and during the creation and pre-
publication stage of research.
Incorporating scholarly communication
issues into information literacy programs for
faculty and students

5.
Scholarly Communication Initiatives at KU
Institutional Repository
(KU ScholarWorks)
Digital Publishing Services
Education, Outreach, Advocacy
*New*: Open Access Policy - June
2009

6.
Lawrence, Kansas

7.
University of Kansas
Undergraduate Students: 23,000
Graduate Students: 6,000
Faculty Members: 2,300
Research Centers: 8 on Lawrence
campus
Federal Grants: over $200 million
Libraries: 4 million volumes
5 library buildings, one central

8.
Open Access Repositories
Authors self-archive
Discipline or
institutionally-based
Metadata harvested
by search engines
and indexing
services
 Registry of Open
Access Repositories:
 http://roar.eprints.org/

9.
KU ScholarWorks
http://www.ku.edu/~scholar

10.
Open Access Journals
Peer reviewed
Various funding
models
Directory of Open
Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org
4382 journals

11.
Libraries as Publishers
“Rapidly becoming the norm…” (ARL)
Production support for local journals
new electronic journals & conversion of print back
issues
Emphasis on access and visibility, local
control, preservation
 provide low-cost services by supporting
open access models and leveraging library
and campus IT resources

12.
Library-based
publishing initiatives
Scholarly Publishing Office (Michigan)
 http://spo.umdl.umich.edu
Center for Innovative Publishing (Cornell)
 http://cip.cornell.edu
eScholarship (California)
 http://www.cdlib.org/programs/escholarship.html
University of Kansas Digital Publishing
Services
 http://kudiglib.ku.edu/epublishing.shtml

13.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did

14.
KU Digital Publishing Services
https://journals.ku.edu

15.
Some Journals at KU

16.
Software Platforms
•Journals@KU (OJS)
• http://journals.ku.edu
•KU ScholarWorks (D-Space)
• http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu
•eXtensible Text Framework (XTF)
 Supports indexing, querying, display of XML documents (TEI and
EAD)
 http://etext.ku.edu

17.
Open Journal Systems
http://pkp.sfu.ca/

18.
JOURNALS
AND SERIAL
PUBLICATIONS
 American Studies*
 Biodiversity Informatics*
 Center for East Asian
Studies Publication Series
 Journal of Dramatic Theory
and Criticism*
 Kansas Working Papers in
Linguistics
 Latin American Theatre
Review*
 Slovene Linguistic Studies
 Social Thought and
Research
 KU Paleontological
Contributions
*=OJS journal
MONOGRAPHS
 Biographical Dictionary
of Kansas Artists
 Cartobibliography of
Maps in 18th Century
British and American
Geographical Works
 Greetings from the
Teklimakan: A Handbook
of Modern Uyghur
 Pontificalia: A Repertory
of Latin Manuscript
Pontificals and
Benedictionals
 Niccolò Perotti's
Rudimenta Grammatices
 Jesuatti Book of
Remedies

19.
Some statistics
Title # of Articles Downloads
(September
2009)
American Studies 1111 14,521
Latin American Theater
Review
1614 37,217
Biodiversity Informatics 26 1,631
Journal of Dramatic
Theory and Criticism
612 7180
Biographical Dictionary of
Kansas Artists
(monograph in
KU ScholarWorks)
11,307 (Since
Aug 2006)

20.
Some next steps…
Establishing workflows and policies,
organizational funding to sustain program
Improve OJS training
Statistics (usage, submissions, citations)
Editorial advisory board meeting
Host an “editors’ forum” in October
Expand website with more resources on
publishing issues
Seek to participate in info literacy and
educational opportunities on campus.

21.
Roles for Libraries in Education, Outreach,
Advocacy
Advise faculty in their roles as instructors, authors,
editors, publishers
Shape campus discussions of NIH and other funding
agency policies
Maintain scholarly communication websites
Organize workshops on copyright issues and digital
scholarship
Advocate through university governance and
administrative channels
Pay attention and be engaged
Educate and train other librarians and students

22.
OPEN ACCESS POLICY FOR UNIVERSITY OF
KANSAS SCHOLARSHIP
Faculty members grant permission to the university
to make a copy of their scholarly journal articles
available in the open access repository, KU
ScholarWorks.”
PURPOSE: Provide the broadest possible access to
the journal literature authored by KU faculty.
Approved May 2009
 https://documents.ku.edu/policies/governance/OpenAccess.ht
m

23.
Other Policies in U.S
National Institutes of Health
 $28 Billion in biomedical research funding
 Peer-reviewed research must be deposited in PubMed
Central
Harvard University (Faculty of Arts and
Sciences)
 Faculty grant university permission to distribute
scholarly articles, including deposit in OA repository
Stanford, MIT, University of Oregon

24.
UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING
University Publishing In A Digital Age
 http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/university-publishing
Talk About Talking About New Models of Scholarly
Communication
 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.108
ARL: A Bimonthly Report: Special Double Issue on
University Publishing
 http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br252-253.shtml

25.
OTHER RESOURCES
 SPARC
 http://www.arl.org/sparc/
 OAISIS
 http://www.openoasis.org/
 European Open Scholar
 http://www.openscholarship.org
 SHERPA/RoMEO database
 http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
 OA Advocacy Checklist for Research Libraries (PDF)
 http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/lis/ticer/09carte/public
at/17Swan_paper.pdf

26.
Libraries have growing scholarly
communication programs which are
becoming core activities….
Librarians have a unique set of skills which
puts us at the center of campus teaching and
learning…
….how do we continue to build skills,
expertise, organizational and funding models
to sustain these programs?

27.
Brian Rosenblum
Scholarly Digital Initiatives Librarian
University of Kansas
brianlee@ku.edu