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Launching a Scholarly Communication Department Launching a Scholarly Communication Department This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Clarke Iakovakis & Rafia Mirza
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Timeline Reorganization in Summer 2013 Creation of Scholarly Communication Department o The university did not provide centralized support for authorship & copyright questions o The library has had an institutional repository (ResearchCommons) for years but no dedicated outreach positionsResearchCommons o Need for centralized department Scholarly Communication touches on many departments and initiatives o Need for common understanding of concepts, terms, etc.
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Blog
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Website All rights reserved to Some rights reserved
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Collections Charter Member: Knowledge Unlatched
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Copyright
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Analysis of Community Citation data to visualize Open Access publications Code at https://github.com/ciakovx/oa (in progress)https://github.com/ciakovx/oa
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Analysis of Community A set of self-assessment exercises, interviews, SWOT analysis, and development of strategic agenda “designed to help academic and research libraries develop a strategic agenda for e-research support” Interviewed faculty, administrators & deans asking questions related to o Supporting & facilitating research o The ways faculty use computation & information technologies to conduct their research o Technological challenges to research o Evaluation of digital projects for T&P o Role of library in supporting digital projects o Perspectives on data sharing, data archiving, data management plans, open access, institutional repository
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SC Department information on Sharepoint
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Summer Workshop series Attended ACRL Scholarly Communication Workshop: From Understanding to Engagement o Reproduce and expand for internal library staff Sessions: o Scholarly Communication overview o Open Access o OA & Research Commons o Copyright o Digital Humanities o Escience / Data
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Outreach Soft launch of external outreach for Open Access Week 2014 Planning to become a member of TDL
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Lessons Learned Technical infrastructure is critically important Support for infrastructure is interdepartmental Service Model vs. Collaborative Model
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