1. Alliance and The Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute
Mark Dahl
Alliance Summer Meeting 2016

2. A future proposal?
In the Spring of 2016, a group of Alliance Member Library staff came together to develop a proposal for an Alliance Team at the Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute. The proposal was not successful, but I’d like to review our work and consider possibilities for a future proposal.

3. What is the SCI?
The Triangle SCI aims to bring together groups of scholars, information scientists, librarians, publishers, technologists, and others from both inside and outside academia (i.e., journalists, industry, non-profit organizations, museums, independent researchers) to articulate and begin to address needs and opportunities in the domain of scholarly communications.
The SCI is not a traditional conference, but rather a forum for teams of individuals from diverse backgrounds to devote concentrated time to defining shared challenges, exploring creative strategies, and forging new collaborations, in a spirit of bold and open experimentation, and focused on one or more of a set of annually changing themes.

4. Alliance question?
What can a major library consortium do to shape the scholarly communication ecosystem?

5. Initial Ideas
Infrastructure - provide publishing platform/technology to members, create a regional press, leverage linked open data, develop a repository platform for web-based materials
Funding - acquisitions guidelines (checklist) to support open access as Alliances purchases content, funding for OERs, invest in an OER textbook collection, incubator for Open Access publishing, funding for Open Access journal submissions
Education - become a clearinghouse for information about OERs, develop forums to discuss emerging issues around open data (similar to OHSU project), conference/workshop around the politics/economics of academic libraries and scholarly publishing

6. Alliance proposal
“Moving the Needle: Creation and Adoption of Open Educational Resources at the Consortial Level”
Examine “alignment challenge” of OER creation/use and faculty priorities - wide range of institutions
Broadly - educational materials - how do they fit into scholarly communication ecosystem
Specifically - how can a library consortia affect the sustainable creation, discovery, and adoption of OER.

7. Team
Librarians, Faculty, Educational Technologists, OER specialist

8. Challenges Many other OER initiatives What’s the consortial role?
At individual insitutions
State-wide (OpenOregon, OpenWashington)
What’s the consortial role?
Diversity of institutions
Leaders in the scholarly communication world

9. Going forward...
What can a major library consortium do to shape the scholarly communication ecosystem?

10. Thanks!
To the team who developed the proposal concept and reviewed it:
Jill Emery Amy Coughenour Robin Champieux Annie Gaines Mel DeSart Sue Kunda Korey Jackson Talea Anderson
Especially Robin and Korey who did the heavy lifting writing the proposal.