24 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Primary and secondary authors of non-library literature: any librarian or staff with interests, expertise, etc. Reference
and research assistants in some libraries provide bibliography/citation support.
Primary authors: staff authors of novels. Secondary authors: staff co-editors of poetry.
Primary authors: professional staff
Proofreading: University Writing Center, or informal arrangements with colleagues
Several librarians publish in non-library scholarly literature. The Libraries’ Center for Graduate Initiatives and Engagement
has a staff member that supports EndNote and other bibliographic tools.
Software developers, GIS specialists, library administrators, digital scholarship specialists are all serving as primary and
secondary authors.
Subject librarians provide images for use in publications.
Support staff: edit draft article (copyediting an essay written by a faculty member that will accompany a digital
collection.) Public Services support staff: bibliography/citation management training.
The university press provided copyediting and proofreading services for the first two issues of “Public” and can
recommend the names of experienced freelance copyeditors and tested indexers to faculty upon request. Special
Collections curators serve as editors for peer-reviewed journals. Locating images for publications: Digital Initiatives/
Digital Production Unit.
If you selected “Other service” above, please specify the service and the corresponding staff
category. N=6
Data services provide assistance in designing data visualizations for scholarly articles.
In the Law Library librarians assist faculty in footnote verification, both in terms of content of footnotes as well as
compliance with citation style requirements for the publication.
Liaison librarians, scholarly communications librarian: instruction in the editorial process for scholarly journals—student
and faculty research journals
Produces unique citation collections for systematic reviews: paraprofessional staff and subject specialists in medical
library. Data Management Services: provide data archive for publishing data that supports publication.
Reference librarians university press (part of library)
We negotiate licenses so that they include scholarly sharing language that allows authors to reuse figures, tables, and
illustrations from journals we subscribe to in their new articles without payment or permission needed. We have had one
instance of a librarian serving as a primary author in the publication of nonlibrary scholarly literature. I hesitate to call
this a service as this is only one example and we have not set out to offer this “service.”
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