As of May 8, 2012, the SCIG listserv is moving to Google Groups. This will put us in line with the other SIGs as well as the main ACRL/NEC listserv. If you were a member of the old listserv, you should have received an invitation to join the Google Group. If you would like to join the list as a new member, please visit http://groups.google.com/group/scholcomm?hl=en.
Registration cost: $15.00 (incl. morning coffee and lunch)
The ACRL New England Chapter’s Scholarly Communication Special Interest Group is offering a program on the opportunities and challenges that open access presents for scholarly societies. The program will offer a moderated panel consisting of faculty and scholarly society representatives from different disciplines, who are active with their scholarly societies and the journals they publish.
Panelists will address how scholarly societies in a range of fields are responding to the emergence of open access publication models, including successful strategies for change, issues and concerns, and potential business models. Participants will hear about issues relevant in discussions with faculty on their campuses, to support them in outreach about how new publishing models are affecting societies, and what this means for the faculty as both authors and publishers.
October Ivins of Informed Strategies, who has a long track record of working with libraries and publishers, will moderate the panel.
Panel participants include:
Ken Heideman, Director of Publications, American Meteorological Society
Kent Holsinger, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
Michael James, Fellow at the Roche Center for Catholic Education, Boston College
Robert Kelly, Director of Journal & Information Services, American Physical Society
Steve Zinn, Professor of Animal Science, University of Connecticut
Following the panel, there will be an opportunity to share ideas about activities held on our campuses during Open Access Week, and to hear updates about key OA-related meetings (such as the Berlin9 meeting and the first gathering of the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions).
Presentation slides and discussion notes from the April 15 workshop New Tools for Knowledge: An overview of resources that support research analytics, faculty profiles, and bibliographies are now available for download:
Keynote by Gerald J (Jay) Schafer, Director of Libraries at UMass Amherst – Download slides (PDF)
ACRL/NEC Scholarly Communication Interest Group presents:
New tools for knowledge: An overview of resources that support research analytics, faculty profiles, and bibliographies
Friday, April 15, 2011
9:30-3:00
Northeastern University Library
Registration:
You can still register for this program but will be put on our waiting list, and we’ll contact you if a place becomes available. Register for the waiting list at: http://www.acrlnec.org/scholcom_registration You can pay by check at the door if you attend the program.
Please contact Carolyn Mills if you have questions: Carolyn.Mills@uconn.edu
Program costs:
Registration- $25
Parking- $15
Tools for measuring and analyzing institutional research output are proliferating, with new options available from both commercial vendors and the open source software community. These tools enable tracking of faculty and student research, publications, citations, and downloads; provide key metrics on grants and awards; expose opportunities for cross-campus collaborations; allow comparison of metrics between institutions; and support the development of public faculty research and publishing profiles.
In this workshop we will learn why librarians need to know about these tools, how these tools might help librarians engage in campus-wide conversations about institutional research activities, hear from both product experts and librarians who have used these tools at their own institutions, and explore how you can apply what you have learned to your own institution.
Presenters include:
Jay Schafer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Tony Skoczylas, Thomson Reuter (InCites)
Ann Devenish and John Furfey, MBLWHOI Library (BibApp)
Erik Moses and Joanna Kilpatrick, Elsevier (SciVal)
Ellen Cramer, Cornell University (VIVO)
and more!
After the morning’s presentations and a networking lunch, we will break into roundtables for in-depth discussions of the need for information about research and publishing in our institutions, for a closer look at the tools, and for discussions of what’s happening on our various campuses. We’ll also share ideas for applying these tools and for partnering with others on our campuses that share our interest in research analytics.
This event is sponsored by the Boston Library Consortium. For more information, please visit: http://eepurl.com/0GfE
Make an early start to your Open Access week activities and join us at a demonstration of BibApp! Created as an open-source tool by librarians and technology staff at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, BibApp is the “Campus Research Gateway and Expert Finder.” The MBLWHOI Library has implemented it to showcase the science communications of researchers from the Woods Hole science community at http://bibapp.mbl.edu.
John Furfey, Digital Systems and Services Coordinator for the MBLWHOI Library, will give a live demo, discuss how to get started, and answer your questions about setting up the underlying BibApp software and technology
Free on-site registration is limited to 20, virtual attendance via the live-broadcast is unlimited!
Presentation slides and Persona Exercise notes from the July 29 workshop Partnering with Faculty: Scholarly Communication Conversations are now available for download:
Keynote Address: Peter Suber “Methods and Messages that Work” –Download slides (pdf)
Transitioning from Subscriptions to Open Access: Article Processing Fees and Combined Licensing/Author’s Rights Approaches
July 27, 2010, 1:00-2:30 p.m EDT
The Directory of Open Access Journals currently lists more than 5,000 fully open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journals, and the growth rate averages about two titles per day–this without any comprehensive, concerted approach to shifting funding from subscriptions to support for open access! Libraries are beginning the process of piloting approaches to providing economic support for open access, ranging from payment of article processing fees to combining licensing subscriptions with authors’ rights or other open-access approaches. Program 3B presents participants with an opportunity to learn from the leaders in this field.
Scheduled Speakers
Ivy Anderson, Director of Collection Development and Management, California Digital Library
Barbara DeFelice, Director, Digital Resources Program, Dartmouth College
Andrew Waller, Licensing & Negotiating Librarian, Library & Cultural Resources, University of Calgary
The mission of the ACRL New England Chapter Scholarly Communication Interest Group is to develop and nurture a regional community of academic professionals interested in forwarding scholarly communication interests in higher education. We provide a forum for sharing ideas about a wide variety of topics, including institutional repositories, authors' rights, and open access and other alternative publishing models.
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