A large part of what my colleagues and I do while working on our institutional
repository effort at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is participate in
the scholarly communications conversation on campus. We try to explain the
importance of authors protecting their rights when sending works to publishers
and how they can obtain rights for works they have already published. See
the 'For Authors' section of our I.R. (ScholarWorks) for more on what we try to
explain. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/for_authors.html
There are only three librarians (2 FTE) here who are directly responsible for
the Institutional Repository effort, but we've received support from some of
the other librarians in terms of getting the word out. We see the subject
liaisons, who already have relationships with the faculty/departments, as a
natural place to look for help when trying to make the I.R. scalable.
We have also developed relationships with the Office of the Provost to see if
there is a way to use the Annual Faculty Review Process to
systematically reach the faculty.
Feel free to contact me or the UMass ScholarWorks Team at
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Steven Folsom
Metadata Librarian
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Quoting Andrea Frank <[log in to unmask]>:
> The BC Libraries have a Scholarly Communications blog:
>
> http://scholcommbc.blogspot.com/
>
>
> On Jun 6, 2007, at 4:48 AM, Linda M. Wagner wrote:
>
> > University of Washington Libraries has a nice overview at http://
> > www.lib.washington.edu/scholcomm/ and details about specific UW
> > efforts at http://www.lib.washington.edu/scholcomm/local.html. On
> > the UW efforts page you'll see that scholars are directed to their
> > subject librarians if they have ideas for new initiatives that will
> > produce change in the current system of scholarly communication.
> > This suggests to me that subject librarians at UW play a key role
> > in this area.
> >
> > * * * * *
> > Linda M. Wagner, MLIS
> > University of Washington
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> > Lynne Woodruff wrote:
> >
> >> I have been asked to do a presentation on how scholarly communication
> >> fits into our role as subject liaisons in academic libraries. Since
> >> there isn't a great deal of information about this in the
> >> literature, I
> >> was hoping that some of you may have had an experience or ideas you
> >> would be willing to share (talking to faculty about current s.c.
> >> issues,
> >> organizing workshops, creating web pages, working with other campus
> >> groups etc.) If so, please get in touch with me directly at:
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >> Thanks
> >> Lynne Woodruff
> >> Information Services Librarian, Fine Arts
> >> McPherson Library
> >> PO Box 1800 STN CSC
> >> Victoria, B.C. V8W 3H5
> >> (250)721-8213
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> > . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> > Linda M. Wagner, MLIS
> > University of Washington
> > [log in to unmask]
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