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Scholarly Communications

Library Publishing and Academic Research

Discovery and Open Access to read and to publish educational material and scholarly research

  • Open Access journal articles
  • Open Access books
  • Open Educational Resources (OER) as teaching materials, textbooks, supplementary readings and viewing
  • Open Data
  • Open Source software
  • Open Pedagogy materials

What does a Scholarly Communications Librarian do?

A Scholarly Communications Librarian:

Works with faculty and researchers in their scholarly communication endeavors 

on research and publishing practices across disciplines:

Institutional Repository: Academic Repository at SMC (Hyku) (deposit of scholarly outputs/assets/artifacts, such as research results, data, articles, books, presentations)

Research data management (Data Management Plans and persistent identifiers like ORCID, ROR)

Research publishing (Hyku, Omeka, Open Journal Systems, PressBooks)

Open Access: Research pedagogy/practices, publishing, and discoverability

Copyright and research - authors’ rights, Open licenses (Creative Commons etc.)

Research impact measurement and assessments (bibliometrics, altmetrics)

 

IMPACT!

Metrics and assessment of research/scholarship/creative works

Research Process

Innovation and emerging research methods and presentation modes

Digital Scholarship

Data Competencies

Digital Competencies

Sustainability of the scholarly record

Information has value

 

Library Publishing and sharing/preservation of scholarship

Institutional Academic Repository

Online Exhibits and Visualizations

Open Access books and Open Educational Resources (OER)

 

 

Digital Scholarship and Digital Humanities

The new Digital and Public Humanities (DPH) minor

Academic Research and co-curricular teaching and learning engagement

Scholarship is a conversation

Research is a process

Peer Review in the Open ecosystem

Authority is constructed and contextual

Next steps

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