16 · Survey Results: Executive Summary
Roles for Research Libraries in Faculty Publishing
Scholarly Communications
Communication and Education
• Educate scholars on sustainability of current scholarly publishing system and need for reform
• Libraries are key partners—instrumental in guiding researchers through changing scholarly
publishing climate and are best suited to capturing new and traditional forms of scholarly output
and managing access to it
• Vital resource for information about scholarly publishing
Open Access
• Promote affordable OA publishing options
• Identify predatory OA publishers
• Provide funding for OA publishing
• Support creation of OER
• Promote open access publishing through the institutional repository
• Assist with creation of OA textbooks
Public Access
• Assist with funder requirements for publication of research
• Lead initiatives that manage, describe and preserve information in furtherance of public
access mandates
• Assist with grant compliance with hosing of publication and data
Repository Development/Support
• Distribute research output globally
• Support multiple formats—video, data, images
Support at All Stages of the Publishing Workflow
Research Workflow Integration
• “Finding the ‘natural’ places where libraries interface with the research workflow, developing new
places where libraries can add value to the research workflow, and more aggressively capturing
the outputs of the research workflow”—moving from a “collection-centric” to an “engagement-
centric” role
• Co-PIs on grants
• Co-editors on books
• Embedded in research enterprise, provide embedded expertise in information management, data
curation, scholarly edition, and publishing
• Collection development to support research and publishing
• Be embedded in research process
• Locate “gaps” in world of research that need attention—share these gaps with faculty
Roles for Research Libraries in Faculty Publishing
Scholarly Communications
Communication and Education
• Educate scholars on sustainability of current scholarly publishing system and need for reform
• Libraries are key partners—instrumental in guiding researchers through changing scholarly
publishing climate and are best suited to capturing new and traditional forms of scholarly output
and managing access to it
• Vital resource for information about scholarly publishing
Open Access
• Promote affordable OA publishing options
• Identify predatory OA publishers
• Provide funding for OA publishing
• Support creation of OER
• Promote open access publishing through the institutional repository
• Assist with creation of OA textbooks
Public Access
• Assist with funder requirements for publication of research
• Lead initiatives that manage, describe and preserve information in furtherance of public
access mandates
• Assist with grant compliance with hosing of publication and data
Repository Development/Support
• Distribute research output globally
• Support multiple formats—video, data, images
Support at All Stages of the Publishing Workflow
Research Workflow Integration
• “Finding the ‘natural’ places where libraries interface with the research workflow, developing new
places where libraries can add value to the research workflow, and more aggressively capturing
the outputs of the research workflow”—moving from a “collection-centric” to an “engagement-
centric” role
• Co-PIs on grants
• Co-editors on books
• Embedded in research enterprise, provide embedded expertise in information management, data
curation, scholarly edition, and publishing
• Collection development to support research and publishing
• Be embedded in research process
• Locate “gaps” in world of research that need attention—share these gaps with faculty