9/13/2006 UCLA Library--Scholarly Communication Steering Committee Update What’s going on with SC in UC(LA)? A set of white papers widely discussed by faculty entities An initiative of UCLA’s Faculty Committee on Educational Technology A proposal by UC Press to support UC scholarly publishing

9/13/2006 UCLA Library--Scholarly Communication Steering Committee Update Five White Papers and a Proposal Authored by Special Committee on Scholarly Communication of Academic Council “Official statement of the voice of the UC Faculty”—Larry Pitts, UCSF “Call to Action”– Rogers Brubaker, UCLA “Principles and best practices …to respond to the challenges currently facing scholarly communication”– John Oakley, Chair Academic Senate

9/13/2006 UCLA Library--Scholarly Communication Steering Committee Update And the papers are… 1. Evaluation of Publications in the Academic Personnel Processes 2. The Case of Journal Publishing 3. The Case of Scholarly Book Publishing 4. Scholarly Societies and Scholarly Communication 5. The Case of Scholars Management of Their Copyright Proposal for UC Faculty—Scholarly Work Copyright Rights Policy

9/13/2006 UCLA Library--Scholarly Communication Steering Committee Update Process of Review Reviewed by Academic Senates on all campuses in Spring UCLA senate had 6 bodies review them Most extensive review and report was by the COL Full Academic Assembly discussed in May

9/13/2006 UCLA Library--Scholarly Communication Steering Committee Update 1. Evaluation of Publications in Academic Personnel Processes Recommends that new forms and modalities of scholarly communication should be considered COL: “Did a good job trying to reconcile the desire to maintain standards of scholarly quality… with recognition of the increasing importance of new forms of scholarly communication.”

9/13/2006 UCLA Library--Scholarly Communication Steering Committee Update 2. The Case of Journal Publishing Directed at publishers, but wanted to get attention of faculty who edit journals, to recognize that the current system limits the dissemination of knowledge Recommends that society publishers seek only first publication copyright, avoid monopoly pricing, enable persistence, etc. COL: Concern for legitimate rights of publishers for exclusive rights for reasonable time; measuring value or best practices is complex and contentious

9/13/2006 UCLA Library--Scholarly Communication Steering Committee Update 3. The Case of Scholarly Book Publishing “The scholarly book is in peril” Recommends experimenting with new publishing models; removing printed format as a “tacit requirement for acceptable scholarship” COL: Welcomed call for creative thinking about future of monograph but called on UC of provide resources to UC Press for the express purpose of supporting print format

9/13/2006 UCLA Library--Scholarly Communication Steering Committee Update 4. Scholarly Societies and Scholarly Communication Partnerships with profit-maximizing commercial publishers have led to price increases Scholarly Societies should facilitate access to scholarship not impede it Eg, acquire only those copyrights that “demonstrably protect their investment in publication.” COL: support financial transparency and responsibile pricing, but societies may have to compensate for revenue lost from individual subscriptions.

9/13/2006 UCLA Library--Scholarly Communication Steering Committee Update 5. The Case of Scholars’ Management of Their Copyright Message to faculty: exercise control over your intellectual property, your scholarship Message to university: develop support services to assist faculty to manage their copyright and disseminate their scholarship

9/13/2006 UCLA Library--Scholarly Communication Steering Committee Update And the most controversial… “As part of copyright management, faculty shall routinely grant to the Regents of UC a limited, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive license to place the faculty member’s scholarly work in a non-commercial open-access repository for purposes of online dissemination and preservation on behalf of the author and the public” Leading to…

9/13/2006 UCLA Library--Scholarly Communication Steering Committee Update Scholarly Work Copyright Rights Policy Includes “the faculty member must retain the right to grant this license to the Regents” and, “faculty can opt out of this agreement for any specific work”

9/13/2006 UCLA Library--Scholarly Communication Steering Committee Update Controversial “Unintended consequences” and “adverse consequences” for faculty such as… Negative impact on tenure if could not publish Where’s the infrastructure support to manage rights? Vagueness of opt-out policy, how would it work?

9/13/2006 UCLA Library--Scholarly Communication Steering Committee Update Status of papers and proposal Academic Assembly “received” the papers at Spring assembly The SCSC has been “sunsetted” UCOL is poised to take up work, including change to charge and name Copyright proposal was “endorsed” and forwarded to President Dynes WG appointed to create final CR policy language and implementation path for policy See /may2006/copyright0506.pdf /may2006/copyright0506.pdf

9/13/2006 UCLA Library--Scholarly Communication Steering Committee Update FCET initiative Asked UL to take lead in developing plan for copyright services on campus, including a copyright support office Library will issue report that: evaluates models at other institutions assesses cr helpline pilot in order to clarify scope and nature of faculty needs serves as basis for hosting discussion with key decision makers and stakeholders

9/13/2006 UCLA Library--Scholarly Communication Steering Committee Update UC Press initiative to support UC scholarly publishing UC Press in collaboration with CDL seeks: to evaluate variety of publishing activities that currently take place on campus Investigate how to efficiently disseminate scholarly output of UC Experiment with new models of publishing Meeting of Withey, Shelton, and Farb