1. Scholarly Communications at UBC Ingrid Parent University Librarian UBC Library SLAIS LIBR 559L: Scholarly Communications May 31, 2011 Vancouver, BC

2. THE LIBRARY www.library.ubc.ca From Scholarly Communications website: http://scholcomm.ubc.ca/

3. Scholarly Communications at The University of British Columbia -Place and Promise (Strategic Plan) references open access and scholarly communication -Develop a campus strategy for making UBC research accessible in digital repositories, especially open access repositories -Enhance UBC’s scholarly communications on global issues, including the web THE LIBRARY www.library.ubc.ca

4. Scholarly Communications at UBC Library -Library Strategic Plan reinforces UBC priorities for open access and scholarly communication -Accelerate research -Increase the impact of UBC research by making it widely available in open access digital repositories -Be a leader in developing and promoting open access and open source methods and tools THE LIBRARY www.library.ubc.ca

5. Scholarly Communications at UBC Library -cIRcle is the University of British Columbia's digital repository for research and teaching materials created by the UBC community and its partners. Materials in cIRcle are openly accessible to anyone on the web, and will be preserved for future generations. THE LIBRARY www.library.ubc.ca

6. UBC Library activities Library reorganization so that Digital Initiatives portfolio includes scholarly communications and cIRcle Accelerate Research Project Charter Capacity building for cIRcle Copyright website (completed) Open Access fund (recommendation) Digital Repository survey (2012) THE LIBRARY www.library.ubc.ca

7. UBC Library activities License Database: http://licenses.library.ubc.ca/ THE LIBRARY www.library.ubc.ca

8. UBC campus activities Open Access Week GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award Innovative Dissemination of Research Award THE LIBRARY www.library.ubc.ca Dimas Yusuf, 2011 winner for his Transcription Factor Encyclopedia (Tfe) http://www.cisreg.ca/cgi- bin/tfe/home.pl

9. UBC Scholarly Communications Steering Committee Co-chaired by University Librarian and Vice Provost, Academic Resources Includes membership from all faculties and colleges, with library and student representation Purpose of the Committee To create a wider forum for discussion and consideration of changes to the system of scholarship To recommend action To support to manage new scholarly distribution and information dissemination models THE LIBRARY www.library.ubc.ca

10. UBC Scholarly Communications Steering Committee Highlights from Year One Three priorities were identified by the Steering Committee: Open Access Working Group Tenure and Promotion Working Group University Publishing (Scholarly Publishing) Working Group THE LIBRARY www.library.ubc.ca

11. IFLA and Scholarly Communication Berlin Declaration Manifesto on Open Access IFLA Project: Digital Reference Guidelines and Standards http://www.ifla.org/en/node/1776 IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for Digital Libraries http://www.ifla.org/en/digital- libraries/guidelines THE LIBRARY www.library.ubc.ca

12. Thank you! Ingrid Parent ingrid.parent@ubc.ca UBC LIBRARY interact | connect | explore www.library.ubc.ca

13. Further Reading… UBC’s Strategic Plan. http://strategicplan.ubc.ca/the-plan/ UBC Library. Strategic Plan 2010-2015. http://strategicplan.library.ubc.ca/ UBC Library Copyright website. http://collections.library.ubc.ca/copyright UBC Scholarly Communications website. http://scholcomm.ubc.ca/ Innovative Dissemination of Research Award. http://scholcomm.ubc.ca/events-awards/award/ 2010 Canadian University Publishing Symposium held at UBC March 21-22, 2010. http://blogs.ubc.ca/universitypublishing/. THE LIBRARY www.library.ubc.ca