1. Expanding Knowledge: Introduction to Scholarly Communication
John Furfey, MBLWHOI, and Erin Jerome, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2. What is Scholarly Communication?
Scholarly Communication can be defined as “the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use.”
Association of Research Libraries
Term used to describe the ways that academics, researchers, scholars, and teachers share information, through publications and teaching

3. What do Scholarly Communication Departments typically handle?
Institutional Repositories
Open Access
Researcher profiles
Copyright assistance, permissions, and fair use
Open Educational Resources

4. Institutional Repositories (IRs)
Open Access digital repositories, often administered by university libraries, that promote and provide access to the scholarly material produced by that university’s students, faculty, and affiliated researchers
Usually structured to mirror the institution’s own organization of colleges, centers, departments, etc.
Available to all members of that institution’s academic community
Indexed by major search engines
Represents a way for an institution to organize and store its research in a single unified location
Bullet point 3 - thinking beyond Green OA and faculty publications

5. The Changing Landscape of IRs
Faculty and student scholarly articles
Electronic theses and dissertations
Retrospective digitization projects for alumni theses and dissertations
Datasets
Journals, conferences, and other open access monographs
Showcase scholarship that has no other logical home
Working papers, grey literature, open educational resources, festschrifts, etc.
Serves as a place to permanently house...thinking beyond green OA

7. Supporting Open Access on campus
Open Access Policies and Mandates
Open Access Funds
Tracking discount article processing charges (APCs) and publisher/journal open access voucher programs

8. Creative Commons, Author Rights, & Copyright
We’ll help you negotiate your publishing contract so that you don’t sign away your copyright
We can help you choose the Creative Commons license that’s best suited to your work
Are you violating copyright or are you protected by fair use? We can help you figure that out, too!

9. Creative Commons Licenses

10. Open Educational Resources
Teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
-William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

11. Types of Open Educational Resources

12. Open Education Initiative

13. “RIM Metadata” by OCLC Research, from Research Information Management: Defining RIM and the Library’s Role (doi.org/ /C3NK88), CC BY 4.0

14. “RIM Uses” by OCLC Research, from Research Information Management: Defining RIM and the Library’s Role (doi.org/ /C3NK88), CC BY 4.0

16. Elements: a Research Information Management System
An implemented or hosted system which supports the automated capture, linking and reporting on of research and teaching activities at your institution:
•Person data
•Research Outputs and Datasets
•Grants
•Professional & teaching activities
•Equipment
• & more…

17. Feed public facing faculty profiles for dissemination & discovery

20. Institutional repository connection

22. Repository engagement

28. Archive
Announce
Evaluate