• Develop institutional policies that enable the university to disseminate the full range of its community’s products now and in the future. • Where local dissemination infrastructure exists (such as institutional repositories), promote its use and expand its capabilities as required. Where needed, build new infrastructure that supports documentation of the products of faculty work, both for grant management and compliance and for more general purposes. • Seek opportunities to invest in shared dissemination infrastructure with other institutions—through shared facilities or by contributing funds to the development of dissemination services by another institution. • Encourage faculty authors to modify contracts with publishers so that their contracts permit immediate open access or delayed public access to peer reviewed work in a manner that does not threaten the viability of the journals or monographs. • Develop policies or strategies that redirect resources from high-cost/low- value dissemination practices to development of dissemination mechanisms residing inside the academy. • Where universities support presses, work to realign presses more directly with the university mission. Encourage press investments in dissemination activities that correspond to areas of excellence on campus. Consider revising reporting relationships to encourage collaboration between presses and libraries. Invest in press/library collaborations. © 2009 Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, Coalition for Networked Information, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/. To cite this article: Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, Coalition for Networked Information, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. “The University’s Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship—A Call to Action.” Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 262 (February 2009): 1–6. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/rli/. RLI 262 5 The University’s Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship—A Call to Action ( C O N T I N U E D ) FEBRUARY 2009 RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A BIMONTHLY REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC For information on how a research library could use the Call to Action statement locally to stimulate and inform discussions, see the ARL Scholarly Communication Web site on Institutional Policies, http://www.arl.org/sc/authors/inst-policies/.