54 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Research libraries will continue to play a critical role in supporting faculty/researcher publishing through collection
development, literature review assistance, and in fostering discussions about author rights and open access. In the
future, we hope to see more librarians involved as co-researchers and co-authors with campus faculty/researchers.
Research libraries will expand their role with data management in particular. Only the larger institutions will be able to
grow or maintain other services that relate directly to the research or writing processes.
Research libraries will offer data management services throughout the research life cycle, and facilitate data
publications, as well as article publications. Academic librarians, especially subject specialists, will become more
embedded in the research process, not only in health sciences (where embedded librarianship is already common), but
in other disciplines. In Canada, public funding agencies are considering to mandate data management, and research
libraries will be able to play a significant role in helping researchers comply with such a mandate.
Stronger support for local open access publishing on our institutional repository. Stronger support for local research data
management training and data curation.
Teach authors about their rights, copyright in general, publishing options, and establishing a professional identify
(ORCID) archiving content and making content publicly accessible that is not already available in a trusted repository
working with provost/office of research to promote scholarship of institutions.
The IR is a good way to freely distribute the research globally. With more funding, we could help units on campus to
develop more open access scholarly journals.
The library’s input and activities in support of faculty/researcher publishing should be increasing, especially in the area of
education, promotion, and monitoring of campus activity regarding the institutional repository, copyright management,
data creation and maintenance, and perhaps even the creation and/or use of open access textbooks.
The library’s role in this area will be intentionally expanding with the opening of the Scholars’ Commons. We will
bring an array of services scattered around campus into a vibrant, technology rich environment to support in-depth
scholarship and community building.
The UCI Libraries will continue to support faculty publishing by providing alternate platforms for hosting their research
output for previously published articles, new publications hosted on eScholarship, and support for data/video/images
on UC and subject data repositories. The direction and support for funding faculty publishing, as well as the total cost of
serial publications, is also being addressed during subscription negotiations. The liaison librarians are crucial for helping
their faculty understand the options for OA support within the UC and also how their research impact can be enhanced
by deposit into eScholarship.
There’s no question there is a role for the research library (and even college libraries) in supporting faculty/researcher
publishing. The technology now offers the opportunity to do on our own what was once controlled by commercial
publishers. This may require more diplomacy at institutions where there is a university press that must support itself
financially, but there may be ways to achieve some hybrid system that can support both publications with commercial
appeal along with scholarly manuscripts that might not otherwise be published and would likely have much more reach
if they were open rather than fee based. It’s just a question perhaps of whether we will do this individually as institutions
or as part of consortia, such as the Library Publishing Coalition. Librarians at research universities could definitely have a
future role as faculty publication advisers.
We perceive libraries to be essential players in the present and future changes to the scholarly publishing landscape, in
collaboration with researchers, scholarly societies, university presses, and others throughout the research ecosystem.
We provide an important link into the world of research by assisting in determining “gaps”—areas of research that
need attention. We are the link to background information from which new research can be developed.
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