Summarized Information from LIBLICENSE-L, SERIALST, and ERIL-L listservs regarding local Open Access awareness programs Basic original question from UNCW: Have you or other librarians organized OA faculty information sessions at your library? If so, are you using the Create Change literature, or are you relying on a home-grown framework? Are you promoting self-archiving alone, or do you run an institutional repository? A. Responses (Note: these are based on e-mails I received; that's why some programs are described in more depth than others; I tried to include URLs wherever possible. Apologies for typos / errors -- Rebecca) Carleton College 1.) Began discussing OA with faculty when they decided not to renew consortial contract with ScienceDirect. Held discussions at that time with faculty to include them in decision-making. See Scholarly Publishing Debate under "What's New:" http://www.carleton.edu/campus/library/. 2.)Planning joint OA symposium with St. Olaf College entitled "Where Have All Your Journals Gone? The Future of Publishing, Libraries and 'Open Access.'" Keynote speakers will be Jim Neal (Columbia University) and Julia Blixrud (SPARC). Faculty invitations to the symposium will include a copy of the brochure "Open Access" SPARC has produced along with ACRL, ARL and SPARC Europe. Faculty who currently serve on editorial boards of either journals our professional associations are being encouraged to attend all the events. See http://www.arl.org/sparc/oa/index.html. Also requesting departments send at least 2 senior students to the symposium. Both campuses will host a faculty luncheon discussion on OA. A panel of Carleton faculty will lead the discussion. 3.) Plan to host OA speaker at least once a year to keep the dialogue going across the campus. Cornell University 1.) Various programs; see http://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/ 2.) Using ALA/ACRL site: Scholarly Communication Toolkit http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/scholarlycomm/scholarlycommunicationtoolkit/toolkit.htm Fielding Graduate University Will send faculty Create Change brochures and an awareness letter from University and Library administrators, gauge faculty response before deciding on further action Fox Chase Cancer Center 1.) Librarian has kept Library Committee (of representative researchers and clinicians) up to date on OA developments 2.) Joined BioMed Central a few years ago and have hosted speakers from BMC and PLoS. 3.) Planning to post a web page of OA developments, info, and publisher copyright and archiving policies. 4.) Will be considering an IR. Georgetown University 1.) Scholarly Communications committee of the Georgetown University Libraries hosted a symposium on research, funding, and the public good. See http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/admin/librarynews/11-10-04news.htm See also the press release: http://www3.georgetown.edu/dml/services/Press_Release.pdf SPARC Create Change brochure used as a handout. 2.) Planning future symposiums. 3.) See Dahlgren medical library's web page on scholarly communications: http://www3.georgetown.edu/dml/services/scholcomm.html 4.) Have addressed open access issues in courses and at other presentations. Will be presenting a poster on addressing copyright issues at upcoming MLA Conference in San Antonio. North Carolina State University Have done various sessions on NCSU's campus and at UNC-CH's Scholarly Communication working group. See http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/events/index.html Rhode Island College (RIC) 1.) Held OA colloquium. Strong interest shown by area librarians; less interest by faculty. Librarian applied for grant from RIC College Lectures Committee; Julia Blixrud of SPARC spoke at event. See http://www.ric.edu/adamslibrary/resources/faculty_resources/openarchives.html. 2.) Local consortium HELIN is working on grant proposals to fund the start-up costs for a Digital Commons (Proquest) IR for all the HELIN institutions 3.) Invited Mark Caprio, the eScholarship@BC Program Manager, to demonstrate eScholarship@BC, which is Boston College's new Digital Commons IR. See http://www.ric.edu/adamslibrary/resources/faculty_resources/caprio.ppt SUNY Albany Colloquium: 6th Annual Symposium on Issues in Scholarly Communication. See http://library.albany.edu/symposium/ SUNY Buffalo Colloquium: See http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/ScholCom/111103archive.htm University of Kentucky Colloquium: See http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/ScholarlyComm/symposium2003/program.html University of Louisville Colloquium: See http://library.louisville.edu/scholarlycommunication/ UNC Chapel Hill 1.) day and a half convocation on scholarly communication, including Open Access. See http://www.unc.edu/scholcomdig/. 2.) Scholarly Communication Working Group hosts workshops (sometimes partnering with NCSU) on matters of scholarly communication and Open Access. See http://www.unc.edu/schol-com/. UNC Charlotte Will offer workshop series through Faculty Center for Teaching and eLearning (FCTeL) this fall; one workshop is going to be on Google Scholar and OA. The FCTeL (separate from library) will advertise our workshops for us, and participants will have to sign up through their office. A list of workshop descriptions and times will appear on the FCTeL calendar. See http://www.fctel.uncc.edu/calendar/index.html Vanderbilt University 1.) Faculty member gave small presentation; faculty awareness level is already high 2.) Panel on OA today (April 5); attendees include faculty and an editor of a non-OA journal See http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cft/Spring_05_faculty.htm Part of the invitation: "Vanderbilt has entered the OA arena with the publication of AmeriQuests <http://ejournals.library.vanderbilt.edu/ameriquests/>, its first online peer-reviewed Open Access journal, and with the library's creation of an institutional repository to house works written by VU faculty. On campus there are also editors of other prestigious society journals, Chemical Research in Toxicology <http://pubs.acs.org/journals/crtoec/index.html> being one, that have not yet taken the Open Access path. Please join us for a lively discussion about the current status and merits of Open Access publishing and how it affects traditional publishing on Tuesday, April 5, at 4:10 in Frist Hall 140. Three persons with unique perspectives on Open Access publishing will present brief remarks: Robert Barsky, Professor of French & Italian, Editor of AmeriQuests Larry Marnett, Professor of Biochemistry, Editor of Chemical Research in Toxicology Roberta Winjum, Assistant University Librarian and Director of VU e-Archive, the Vanderbilt institutional repository Their introductory statements will frame an open forum on the prospects and problems of Open Access and its value to Vanderbilt and the scholarly community in general. We welcome your contribution to the discussion." B. Selected Promotional Materials available 1.) SPARC Advocacy materials http://www.arl.org/sparc/resources/index.html#advocate 2.) ALA/ACRL site: Scholarly Communication Toolkit http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/scholarlycomm/scholarlycommunicationtoolkit/toolkit.htm 3.) BioMed Central: Open Access http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/advocacy (posters, presentations, etc.) 4.) BioMed Central: Open Repository (for setting up your own IR) www.openrepository.com <http://www.openrepository.com/> 5.) Guide: What You Can Do http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/do.htm ------------------------------------------------------- Rebecca Kemp Electronic Resources/Serials Librarian W. M. Randall Library UNC Wilmington 601 S. College Rd. Wilmington, NC 28403 voice: (910) 962-7220 fax: (910) 962-3078
