46 · Survey Results: Survey Questions And Responses
Our library is in the process of hiring a Head of Digital Services and Scholarly Communication. This person will build
a team of librarians and staff who will be charged with promotion of scholarly communication services, including
the author addendum.
See description in Question #10 regarding the 2005 Scholarly Convocation. This was a one-time event that doesn’t
really fall into the category of ongoing educational initiatives.
Since the NIH Public Access mandate, we frequently connect our promotion of author addenda to a broader
education campaign about PMC deposit. The library offers a service that assists with PMC deposit, and much of
our one-on-one addendum consulting occurs as a result of that service.
The Scholarly Communication department in the library was established in July 2008 and now officially serves in
this capacity, although the knowledge is somewhat limited. As head of collection development I tried for several
years to convince the Provost’s Office and the Dean of Libraries that the faculty need legal counsel who will advise
them about the amount of risk to take, rather than protecting the university from risk. Some of the faculty agree,
but no position has been forthcoming.
We are actively engaged in conducting additional educational activities for the library liaisons this year. In fact, the
library director now expects the liaisons to demonstrate active participation in scholarly communication activities
such as discussing the author addendum with faculty, assisting faculty in the creation of Selected Works pages, and
providing referrals to the Scholarly Communication Librarian when faculty express an interest in features of our
institutional repository such as digital publishing and/or electronic conference proceedings.
We have an Intellectual Property/Copyright/Scholarly Publishing business card which is handed out at all our
events and other places around campus. Also some of our subject librarians give these out. They offer a “help line”
via e-mail and phone. This connects them to someone in the Digital Collections Services Unit who will answer their
question or find someone who can.
We have been working on an ad hoc basis for sometime and now are planning more group activities and
participation.
We have seen an important change in our experiences with the issues. We began our promotion of addenda and
the issues with a view toward advancing Open Access. We still promote OA actively and aggressively. But the
conversation about OA quickly shifted to a conversation about author agreements and addenda, with attention
on the many various reasons for entering into better agreements. We always conclude with one simple point of
emphasis: Whatever you sign, keep a copy.
Our library is in the process of hiring a Head of Digital Services and Scholarly Communication. This person will build
a team of librarians and staff who will be charged with promotion of scholarly communication services, including
the author addendum.
See description in Question #10 regarding the 2005 Scholarly Convocation. This was a one-time event that doesn’t
really fall into the category of ongoing educational initiatives.
Since the NIH Public Access mandate, we frequently connect our promotion of author addenda to a broader
education campaign about PMC deposit. The library offers a service that assists with PMC deposit, and much of
our one-on-one addendum consulting occurs as a result of that service.
The Scholarly Communication department in the library was established in July 2008 and now officially serves in
this capacity, although the knowledge is somewhat limited. As head of collection development I tried for several
years to convince the Provost’s Office and the Dean of Libraries that the faculty need legal counsel who will advise
them about the amount of risk to take, rather than protecting the university from risk. Some of the faculty agree,
but no position has been forthcoming.
We are actively engaged in conducting additional educational activities for the library liaisons this year. In fact, the
library director now expects the liaisons to demonstrate active participation in scholarly communication activities
such as discussing the author addendum with faculty, assisting faculty in the creation of Selected Works pages, and
providing referrals to the Scholarly Communication Librarian when faculty express an interest in features of our
institutional repository such as digital publishing and/or electronic conference proceedings.
We have an Intellectual Property/Copyright/Scholarly Publishing business card which is handed out at all our
events and other places around campus. Also some of our subject librarians give these out. They offer a “help line”
via e-mail and phone. This connects them to someone in the Digital Collections Services Unit who will answer their
question or find someone who can.
We have been working on an ad hoc basis for sometime and now are planning more group activities and
participation.
We have seen an important change in our experiences with the issues. We began our promotion of addenda and
the issues with a view toward advancing Open Access. We still promote OA actively and aggressively. But the
conversation about OA quickly shifted to a conversation about author agreements and addenda, with attention
on the many various reasons for entering into better agreements. We always conclude with one simple point of
emphasis: Whatever you sign, keep a copy.
