Evans- Marshall IR Day

Learn a bit more about repositories and open access publishing

Learn about the KSU experience

Ideas for collaborating using repositories

Understand possibilities for repositories in undergraduate teaching and learning

“Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions… OA is compatible with copyright, peer review, revenue (even profit), print, preservation, prestige, career-advancement, indexing, and other features and supportive services associated with conventional scholarly literature… OA literature is not free to produce or publish.”

– Peter Suber, http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

Journals

8000+ open access peer-reviewed journals

http://www.doaj.org

Variety of business models

Repositories/archives

2000+ open access repositories

http://www.opendoar.org

Variety of types: data, disciplinary, institutional (IR)

Not a very exciting sounding presentation

“Not trying to be rude but our library sucks.” 1154-U

“there is something quite stuffy and dreary about the library and the studying quarters. Redecorate?” 1122-U

“When I come in the library I am reminded of a line from an old song, ‘Its dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.’ That's about how appealing the library is as a place.” 1118-U

“But if I were to possess an Ipad I'd enjoy the library 100 times more.” 1044-U

“Looks like a prison with less sunlight.”

1031-U“

The library has an old feeling to it in a bad way.” 753-U“

As for the building, welcome to the 1970s! If you like to time travel to the past it is fine. If you actually want quiet, open, well-lighted space conducive to research and study, f--o--r--g--e--t about it.” 715-U

There is a lot in Library Publishing these days and in the Higher Ed Press about Partnerships and Community

Libraries, by my long winded definition, are and have always been...

(1) Partners in education (both public and academic library

(2) Have always been about Community

An optimism that was developed from a past littered with failures... Which means I’ve had the best teacher of all!

How do I do all of this?

University Strategic Plan

Questions?

University Strategic Plan

Globalization of curriculum

Engaged KSU

Library Response

So that you all don’t think I am raving mad in this presentation

I got busy

Real busy

Develop our own strategic plan

Develop a marketing plan

Respond to LibQual+

Move at EVERY OPPORTUNITY to engage faculty about the library

That was a list of what I wanted but what do faculty, chairs and deans want?

Created a Library Strategic Plan

Library Strategic Plan

Well they want the same things, they just don’t know it, only know it in parts, or think the sad little web page they have created for themselves looks real slick

In professional marketing terms “UNDERSTAND THE CUSTOMER AND THE REST IS EASY”

The Sturgis Library is a creative partner in various campus learning communities and in the University’s instructional, learning and research programs. The Library plans, develops and implements programs to provide staff, information, learning resources and information competencies to students, faculty, and staff and selected services to off campus students. Using a variety of technologies the Library delivers resources to satisfy information needs of students and faculty and creates appropriate connections for our various learning and scholarly communities

Well BEPress can give me

The vision for the Sturgis Library is to be the heart of a KSU Academic Learning Complex by providing a learning commons, a research commons, and a library that encompasses physical and virtual spaces. This vision will be realized by collaborating with both the University and Community in various learning and engagement activities.

To realize this strategic vision, we will:

• Collaborate with Kennesaw faculty, students and staff to ensure that students acquire the skills and scholarly abilities necessary to successfully navigate in an information-driven world.

• Add value to the educational and research endeavor of students and faculty by providing research assistance, instruction, and resources to support scholarly inquiry and meet the changing needs of library users.

• Seek out strategic and collaborative relationships with faculty, university, and community partners.

Institutional Repository

Digital Publishing

Conference Services

Showcase Services for Faculty Research

Open Access opportunities

Created a market plan and committee

Focus your attention please!

2.Increase collaborative relationships with academic departments, administrative and student organizations on campus.

a.Identify opportunities for outreach and collaborative opportunities with academic departments.

b.Develop relationships with new faculty to build awareness of library services and resources.

c.Build on existing relationships with student organizations.

d.Strengthen relationships with key administrators and student leadership at KSU, in order to increase their awareness of issues and concerns that impact the library.

3.Increase collaborative relationships and outreach with other libraries, organizations, and businesses in the local and regional community.

a.Identify opportunities for outreach.

b.Participate in relevant community events.

c.Sponsor special library events.

d.Provide marketing support that helps promote collaborative programming with other libraries (e.g. grant initiatives).

4. Brand library services to make patrons aware they are using library resources and services regardless of location or format.

Back to my youthful past mistakes

Back to

If an IR is my answer then

Also helps to have a secret weapon

Meet Rita

I will need to broaden services to the max

Need to add depth to those services

Need to re-focus attention on the library as an alternative to Google and Wikipedia (this is to make the Humanities Faculty feel better)

Need to BRAND the library as an Intellectual Center for Undergraduates

Need the library to have a voice (1st step in empowering) in the discussion on open access and sustainability of content (budget issues)

Moved on the journal front

Moved on to the folks that control money

Now to answer the question

Duh! Of Course

Back to the Faculty

Fast Forward to Today

Reframe the question:

Is an IR (and digital publishing) a new opportunity for us to re-establish lost relationships?

Relationships = mutual collaborations on projects

Relationships = end product of building community involving the library

Now for the failures or lessons learned

Produced an A-V Program

“Who Needs an Online Information System?, 1980

Followed by an article in Educational Technology in 1981

“Online Information Systems in Non-research Academic Libraries: A Missed Opportunity?”

Attack the research folks

Students are good targets

Also this was the Advent of Online Systems

Lockheed (yes the airplane maker) – DIALOG

SDC – Orbit

BRS

Let’s try GLA

A little bit about community development

Backup about 32 years ago

Phones where not little 4 oz. devices but 8 pound boxes with a wheel about 5 inches across called a Rotary Dialer

Little unknown company called Apple had two small computers in their inventory Apple II,III

Tandy (a Crafts Store) had small shops called Radio Shack that had a little computer called the TRS-80

One thing leads to another

What underlies my thinking

LET’S GO GLOBAL (big time)

Library as Partner ..what underlies my thinking

Undergraduate work in IRs

Library as Partner

What about our neighbors

University of North GA

Oglethorpe University

Comments from LibQual+

Enough with journals

Thanks to

Conference Publishing and our first set back

Honors theses and projects

Undergraduate research awards

Scholarly papers and articles

Presentations and posters

Undergraduate research journals

Dave after BEPress and LibQual+

What’s on the horizon?

Help and lots of it!

• Six new Librarians and one parapro hired
• Two additional Graduate Librarians on order
• Full time Marketing person to work with Outreach Librarian and others
• Expanded GRA help, interns, and student assistants for Jon (Digital Commons guy)

Successes Last week

Dr. Monica Brooks

Assistant V.P. for IT

Jingping Zhang

Director of Library Operations

Gretchen Rae Beach

Staff of Marshall University Libraries

Ann Taylor

Director of Outreach and Scholarly Communications

BEPress

Dave before LibQual+

• Added another Dean to our Selectedworks Gallery
• Entire Department of Inclusive Education moving to Selectedworks
• Partnering with Kofi Annan Center in Ghana to host case studies on Peace Keeping
• Three way discussion with VP for Research, Library, and Dean of Social Sciences about the library's role in bringing a world renown African Scholar to campus
• New journal to be added SOUTH (US South & Global South)
• New journal to be added GROUNDINGS (Caribbean)
• Work with African Scholar on Daraja (sort of a Huffington Post)
• New Faculty/Student research journal centered around AADS & LLAS
• New journal on Walter Rodney (Civil Rights Advocate)

Dave Before BEPress

What of the Future

• Directly related to the BEPress platform
• Expansion into monographs
• GRA and internships at KSU and Dakar
• Grant potential
• International Conference potential
• Additional demand for creating publications and strong EDT services
• Discovery Service
• Data curating
• Move from relationships to strong bonds with Academic Centers and Institutes
• GKR, Digital Commons Network, DOI
• KSU Press (this is where the conversation got started)

IR Reach

Goals for this session

Open Access defined

Institutional Repositories

Most repositories are indexed in Google

Some content available in Google Scholar

OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting)

Disciplinary and governmental repositories

Regional, statewide and consortial repositories

http://gaknowledge.org (GALILEO Knowledge Repository)

Enhance access to institution’s intellectual output

Provide stewardship for digital scholarship

Advance open access approaches to scholarly communication

Library as Partner

Open Access channels

Faculty perspectives

Types of content held in IRs

“When I write a paper, I put it on my Web site and it might get 5 million hits. If it’s really good and I send it to a leading journal in my field that prints 16,000 copies and I’m supposed to take it off my Web site. In what universe does that make sense?”

http://www.arl.org/sparc/innovator/harvardfas.shtml

IR Collaborations on Campus and in the Community

West Virginia Library Association

Marshall University IR Day

April 11, 2013

Electronic theses and dissertations

Research and technical reports

Pre-print research

Post-print research

Working papers

Conference papers

Open access journals

Service publications

Research proposals

Research data sets

Organizational documents

College and university archives

Organizational reports

Institutional planning and evaluation documents

Learning objects

Other resources that reflect the quality and diversity of the institution

KSU

Back Up a Billion Years ago

Library as Partner

What does my campus need and want?

Library as Partner

• YOU DO!

Libraries started partnerships a while back with the Advent of Online Systems such as

Lockheed – Dialog

SDC – Orbit

BRS

• Digital Publishing Services
• Conference Notification Services
• Institutional Repository Services
• Showcase Services for Faculty
• Open Access opportunities

IR Collaborations on Campus and in the Community

Yes, my organization…

Needs to broaden Library Services

Needs to add depth to Library Services

Needs to refocus attention on the Library as an alternative to Google

Needs to brand the Library as an Intellectual Center for undergraduates

Needs the Library to be in discussion on open access and sustainability of content

Library as Partner

Produced an A-V program

“Who Needs an Online Information System?”, 1980.

Followed by article in Educational Technology, 1981

“Online Information Systems in Non-research Academic Libraries: A Missed Opportunity?”

Long time ago

In a Galaxy far far away....

Who needs…

Backup about 32 years ago…….

Phones still had dial-rings

Apple had two little computers Apple II,III

Tandy had the TRS-80 personal computer

Reasons to submit to an IR

Increase access to your intellectual product: Multiply the ways in which it may be used to support education

Publicize your work: Open access scholarship is cited 40% more often (Harnad)

Know more about the impact of your work: Use statistics on number of downloads, etc.

Get more life out of works-in-progress, conference papers, research reports, and other material that may not see publication in a peer-reviewed journal

Generate renewed interest in previously published material

Collect and share works for use in evaluation and accreditation

Library as Partner ..what underlies my thinking

Libraries by my long winded definition are and have always been

(1) Partners in education (both public and academic library

(2) Have always been about Community