Universality is a fundamental principle of science (the term “science” as used here includes the humanities): only results that can be discussed, challenged, and, where appropriate, tested, and reproduced by others qualify as scientific. Science, as an institution of organised criticism, can therefore only function properly if research results are made openly available to the community so that they can be submitted to the test and scrutiny of other researchers. Furthermore, new research builds on established results from previous research. The chain, whereby new scientific discoveries are built on previously established results, can only work optimally if all research results are made openly available to the scientific community.
Publication paywalls are withholding a substantial amount of research results from a large fraction of the scientific community and from society as a whole.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2018.00656/full
Scholarly Communications is the systematic study of scholarly systems of organized criticism and sharing of research results, and the transfer of this knowledge into practical applications in library systems and practices.
This Scholarly Communications System results in the Scholarly Record, consisting of all recorded scholarly knowledge; it is continually evolving and being renewed by new forms of scholarship.
The recorded results of scholarly inquiry are there to be accessed, retrieved, evaluated, archived/preserved, shared, and ultimately discovered by students and scholars to create new knowledge across time and space. This, in partnership and collaboration with the entire scholarly community, is the purpose of libraries.
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)
Metrics and assessment of research/scholarship/creative works
The Scholarly Communications Cycle: from https://acrl.libguides.com/scholcomm/toolkit
In 2003, ACRL defined scholarly communication 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. The system includes both formal means of communication, such as publication in peer-reviewed journals, and informal channels, such as electronic listservs." Scholarly communication is frequently defined or depicted as a lifecycle documenting the steps involved in the creation, publication, dissemination and discovery of a piece of scholarly research.
Digital Scholarship
Data Competencies
Digital Competencies
Information has value
Institutional Academic Repository
Online Exhibits and Visualizations
Open Access books and Open Educational Resources (OER)
The new Digital and Public Humanities (DPH) minor
Library consultations, referrals, and workshops
Authority is constructed and contextual
Coming soon:
