1. In the Beginning How to Start a Scholarly Communications Program
Rita Premo, Sonoma State University
California Conference on Library Instruction
May 5, 2017

2. The Situation The Challenge: Where to begin?!
New Scholarly Communications Librarian position
library strategy: “Exercise campus-wide leadership in scholarly communications and open access publishing initiatives”
Institutional Repository
Through the CSU Chancellor’s Office
Responsibilities held by multiple staff, departments over the years
Electronic thesis mandate: Fall 2015
The Challenge: Where to begin?!

3. Accidental opportunities
Brief meetings with various folks on campus: Faculty Affairs, liaison school dean and chairs, community engagement, Faculty Center
Opportunity to explain what scholarly communications is
Introduced me to potential partners and targets for outreach
Led to other introductions on campus, opportunities: e.g., presentation to new faculty cohort on copyright and IP and engagement in campus OER projects
Library instruction
Within first 2 weeks on campus
To introduce me to disciplinary programs
Each provided a chance to raise scholarly communications concepts

4. Nursing Introduction to research methods and evidence-based nursing
Students had some experience searching the literature; mostly ”non-traditional”
Squeezing in some scholcomm
Differences between PubMed, CINAHL, and other resources in terms of content, types of materials provided, types of research (and relation to EBN) abstracted entries vs. full text
Issues of access, off campus at clinical sites but also post-graduation: led into PMC and public research mandates

5. Science FYE
Freshman-year experience for non-science majors, focused on issues of water management
Total of 6 sessions of the course of 2 semesters
Scholcomm-specific topics
Wikipedia: how is it created, who is involved, how can they use it in research
Types of scientific information, particularly gray literature and special collections
Comparing science reporting of a study and the study itself: what factors play a role in how the study is reported
Role of citations in the scholarly process: allows other researchers to find that work

6. Where are we going?
Using OER project as an avenue for general OA outreach
First cohort of graduates falling under the e-thesis mandate
Engagement with OA publishing on campus
Developing a formal OA author fee fund
Broader discussions within the library
Putting OA resources to A to Z list
Future of the IR
Collection development and OA
Addressing scholcomm in instruction