50 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
the Columbia University Press on the publication of an academic database, a supplement to a published monograph,
and more in development. Through the Academic Commons repository, the library also supports data publication,
assignment of unique identifiers, access and preservation, as well. The libraries are also engaged in a number of
other non-journal digital projects with faculty/researchers that publish to the Web. Examples include the Women Film
Pioneers Projects, Dangerous Citizens, Digital Dante, Educating Harlem, the Marenzio Project, and more. The library’s
publications program also includes support for the Web publication of conference materials, blogs, wikis, and more as
described here http://cdrs.columbia.edu/.
The library manages a publishing platform called Open Journal Systems, which is used for a small number of faculty-
led journals.
The UCI Libraries hosts a local institutional repository called UCISpace @the Libraries: http://ucispace.lib.uci.edu/.
This IR provides/facilitates access to research that is multimedia in nature (images, video, born digital, oral histories,
etc.) requires special access (virtual reading room for restricted special collections/archives content) and innovative
publishing formats. Link to the UC Irvine Libraries Publishing Fund website, with policy and guidelines (http://www.
lib.uci.edu/about/projects/scamp/uci-libraries-open-access-publishing-fund.html). Working with CDL, the UC Open
Access Policy will move from voluntary submission to an automated harvesting system beginning in fall 2014, which will
identify metadata for published research articles and allow faculty or proxy designates to upload post-review articles or
final publisher versions, depending on publisher archiving policies.
Through our institutional repository software, we provide services for the hosting of conference materials and open
access journals from the call for papers, through the double-blind peer review (if wanted by the faculty), to the posting
and dissemination of the final content (conference proceedings, poster sessions, open educational resources, journal
articles, editorials, book chapters, research data, etc.) We also have librarians serving in roles such as book review editor
of non-library scholarly journals, and co-presenting with faculty at non-library conferences.
Two of our clinical librarians have helped to develop curriculum within the School of Medicine and the School of
Dentistry that supports research and critical thinking.
Virtually unlimited interlibrary loan, document delivery, and e-journal provisioning.
We are currently exploring some faculty requests for support with journal publishing and in the future would like to
support faculty who want to publish open education resources such as open textbooks.
We are establishing an IR and are developing policies for making faculty publications accessible.
We are in the planning stages of new initiatives to support all modes of scholarly communication, including faculty/
researcher publishing. We currently host two peer-reviewed journals and are planning to expand our Open Access
Services to meet the demands of researchers in Education and other disciplines to provide wider dissemination of
research and data.
We as a library have not unilaterally moved into funding open access publication or OA memberships because we
strongly believe that the research arm of our university must step forward and partner with us for this to be effective
and sustainable. The publication charges must be built into the fabric of research funding.
We do not have a formal publishing program however, we encourage our faculty and researchers to put their
publications in the IR. We also host OA journals in the IR when requested.
We have a suite of library guides to support Research Communication and e-Scholarship, http://guides.library.upenn.
edu/rces, which includes information about Penn’s IR, the ScholarlyCommons, as well as Copyright Services. Penn’s
VIVO instance is available from http://vivo.upenn.edu/vivo/ and our data management plan guide is located here http://
guides.library.upenn.edu/dmp.
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