Scholarly Communication Education Initiatives · 45
TOPICS: N
Economics of scholarly publishing 43 14
(33%)
27
(63%)
2
(5%)
Author rights management 41 11
(27%)
24
(56%)
6
(15%)
Contributing to digital repositories 40 9
(23%)
25
(63%)
6
(15%)
National/international public access developments such as Federal
Research Public Access Act of 2006, NIH policy, etc.
40 8
(20%)
21
(53%)
11
(28%)
Benefits and examples of open access journals 39 8
(23%)
20
(51%)
11
(28%)
Future of scholarly society publishing 38 8
(21%)
20
(53%)
10
(26%)
Author activism (e.g., refusing to publish in expensive journals) 37 6
(16%)
14
(38%)
17
(46%)
Implications for teaching of giving away copyright 37 11
(30%)
20
(54%)
6
(16%)
Future of the scholarly monograph 36 7
(19%)
16
(44%)
13
(36%)
Editor activism (e.g., working within scholarly societies to improve open
access to articles)
35 4
(11%)
11
(31%)
20
(57%)
Disciplinary differences in communication practices 35 4
(11%)
20
(57%)
11
(31%)
Impact of new models on peer review, promotion and tenure, etc. 35 6
(17%)
20
(57%)
9
(26%)
Other topic 9 2
(22%)
3
(33%)
3
(33%)
Please describe other topic(s). N=7
“A topic that has occasioned some of these discussions has been in the context of approaches re. Mass
Digitization (MD) projects and the library’s potential involvement in these.”
“Benefits of institutional repositories.”
All
institution administrators
Specific
institution administrators
Not
addressed