52 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
At our institution, the role will largely be to provide information and guidance.
Continuing to move from a collection-centric to engagement-centric role, 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.
Hosting/co-curating conferences, lectures, exhibitions with faculty and guest lecturers.
I don’t see this as a growing area, especially since locally we’ve had faculty pushback against attempts to be more
integrated into the process.
In addition to support roles and services described in this survey, the university has a library publishing service that
supports journal and conference proceedings publishing. This unit is also open to supporting other publishing such as
multi-media and OER.
In addition to supporting faculty publishing, we will be more involved in collaborative production of scholarly works as
co-investigators on grants and co-authors of books and articles.
In addition to the above, librarians are providing advice about the use of Creative Commons licenses for author created
works. I can see adding copy-editing and proofing expertise to our list of library publishing services as requests are
increasing for this type of support. Faculty are also looking for more interactive tools to use in their publishing efforts
and our digital media lab can provide some of these services.
Increasing role in future, particularly in facilitating understanding of and participation in new forms of publishing.
Librarians will increasingly consult on best ways to create, describe, and disseminate a wide variety of digital
scholarly projects.
Libraries will play a larger role in educating faculty/researchers about author rights and copyright issues related to
scholarly publishing, as well as providing increased exposure to open access options and resources. Libraries will partner
with campus offices to create greater exposure to campus scholarship in various ways and venues, including local
journal publishing and digital humanities/scholarship outcomes.
Libraries will work with faculty to develop new modes of publication as well as continuing to support traditional
publication modes, such as e-books and e-journals.
Looking to the current and near term role: There is a strong and growing need for support with author rights issues
and complying with expanding funder public access requirements. Assisting with data related to publications is another
growth area. Implementing institutional open access policies will also continue to be a main emphasis. Supporting and
possibly managing identifiers for authors, papers, and data sets will be a growing need that research libraries are likely
to focus on. Developing/buying and implementing/managing researcher profile systems and related systems that track
publications and other scholarly outputs and their relationships to grants are likely to continue to grow as a need and
role. Collecting and storing research outputs for our own campuses is likely to remain a main focus—with associated
work on repository infrastructure and access to digital collections of our researchers’ works, particularly open access
collections of our authors’ articles. Providing education about fair use and reuse, and open licensing systems will remain
critical, as will advocating federally and with publishers for copyright policies that support our authors. Negotiating
license agreements that take the burden off our authors to make individual changes to their author contracts is likely to
remain relevant even as more systemic changes to the scholarly communication landscape occur. Supporting new needs
for data/text mining are likely to continue to grow. Of course continuing to provide access to needed journals and other
material to support the research process will remain essential. It also seems likely that libraries will more frequently offer
publishing platforms, particularly open access publishing platforms, and host journals, as well as provide some editing
At our institution, the role will largely be to provide information and guidance.
Continuing to move from a collection-centric to engagement-centric role, 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.
Hosting/co-curating conferences, lectures, exhibitions with faculty and guest lecturers.
I don’t see this as a growing area, especially since locally we’ve had faculty pushback against attempts to be more
integrated into the process.
In addition to support roles and services described in this survey, the university has a library publishing service that
supports journal and conference proceedings publishing. This unit is also open to supporting other publishing such as
multi-media and OER.
In addition to supporting faculty publishing, we will be more involved in collaborative production of scholarly works as
co-investigators on grants and co-authors of books and articles.
In addition to the above, librarians are providing advice about the use of Creative Commons licenses for author created
works. I can see adding copy-editing and proofing expertise to our list of library publishing services as requests are
increasing for this type of support. Faculty are also looking for more interactive tools to use in their publishing efforts
and our digital media lab can provide some of these services.
Increasing role in future, particularly in facilitating understanding of and participation in new forms of publishing.
Librarians will increasingly consult on best ways to create, describe, and disseminate a wide variety of digital
scholarly projects.
Libraries will play a larger role in educating faculty/researchers about author rights and copyright issues related to
scholarly publishing, as well as providing increased exposure to open access options and resources. Libraries will partner
with campus offices to create greater exposure to campus scholarship in various ways and venues, including local
journal publishing and digital humanities/scholarship outcomes.
Libraries will work with faculty to develop new modes of publication as well as continuing to support traditional
publication modes, such as e-books and e-journals.
Looking to the current and near term role: There is a strong and growing need for support with author rights issues
and complying with expanding funder public access requirements. Assisting with data related to publications is another
growth area. Implementing institutional open access policies will also continue to be a main emphasis. Supporting and
possibly managing identifiers for authors, papers, and data sets will be a growing need that research libraries are likely
to focus on. Developing/buying and implementing/managing researcher profile systems and related systems that track
publications and other scholarly outputs and their relationships to grants are likely to continue to grow as a need and
role. Collecting and storing research outputs for our own campuses is likely to remain a main focus—with associated
work on repository infrastructure and access to digital collections of our researchers’ works, particularly open access
collections of our authors’ articles. Providing education about fair use and reuse, and open licensing systems will remain
critical, as will advocating federally and with publishers for copyright policies that support our authors. Negotiating
license agreements that take the burden off our authors to make individual changes to their author contracts is likely to
remain relevant even as more systemic changes to the scholarly communication landscape occur. Supporting new needs
for data/text mining are likely to continue to grow. Of course continuing to provide access to needed journals and other
material to support the research process will remain essential. It also seems likely that libraries will more frequently offer
publishing platforms, particularly open access publishing platforms, and host journals, as well as provide some editing
