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IR and Scholarly Communications Librarian are embodied in same position the SCL works with an IR management
team and draws support from staff in cataloging and digital production. Copyright Officer is not IR/Scholarly
Communications Librarian.
Library Faculty Association Open Access mandate. In addition to Director of Scholarly Communication, the university
also has a designated scholarly communications librarian as of 7/1/14.
Michigan Publishing is a dedicated department of the libraries employing 50 people engaged substantially in providing
publishing services, although that number also includes staff traditionally part of University of Michigan Press, thus
discipline as well as institutionally focused. More at publishing.umich.edu
Our Open Access Policy is in the draft stage and will be presented to the Faculty Senate and Graduate Council in fall
2014 for editing and voting. A state law was passed that each public institution must consider how best to further
public access to funded research articles produced at universities: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.
asp?Name=098-0295. Currently, the institutional repository librarian interacts with faculty to encourage them to
submit articles to the IR and supports them in the process. We want liaison librarians to inform, encourage, and assist
faculty in this process. The institutional repository librarian administers the COPE fund that is in the library budget.
Researchers and their output are tracked by the Elsevier researcher profiling software (Northwestern Scholars), which is
under human resources. Additionally, we hope to have our IR up and running by early 2015.
Services are currently under review and evolving. We currently host three OA journals through the IR and hope to open
more in the future as the need arises. A Digital Scholarship Working Group as been meeting for several months to
explore needs and potentially develop a DS Center in the Libraries with more staff and technological support than is
currently offered. Right now those services are distributed.
The Faculty Council has an interest in support for faculty/researcher publishing. The library is in the process of creating
web pages to assist faculty and graduate students in understanding the use and creation of copyrighted works.
Information on open access and author rights will be included. The library hosts and provides guidance to several open
access and electronic journals that are hosted on library servers.
The Libraries’ commitment to supporting scholarly publishing takes many forms, from librarians participating directly
as members of research teams for non-library grants/research projects, to the provision of services surrounding the
creation and curation of research data, to services that connect researchers with new kinds of scholarly publishing. We
are continually striving to find more and better ways to support our faculty and their scholarly output.
The Libraries does not have a dedicated position for scholarly communication. The tasks are distributed among
a committee, as well as to all librarians who have liaison responsibilities. The Libraries also does not have a data
management librarian.
The Libraries has a digital imprint and publishes open access monographs, but the publications are not limited to the
institution’s authors. This press is distinct from the University Press.
The Libraries recently appointed a Scholarly Communications Librarian. Part of her job responsibilities will be to lead
outreach efforts for scholarly communication and the institutional repository. This position will work closely with subject
specialists to identify needed programming and services to support open access, author’s rights, intellectual property
issues, and emerging trends related to scholarly publishing. It’s likely that some of the library’s services will evolve to
support these issues over the next couple years.
The library hosts a robust publications partnership program, supports nearly two dozen Columbia-affiliated
publications. Library staff committed to publications program include application developers, project managers,
scholarly communication, and institutional repository staff, as well as library liaisons. The library is also engaged with
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