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Friday, November 18, 2022 9:30 AM EST
Values, Vision, and Voice: A toolkit for navigating Open Access and the changing landscape of scholarly publication.
Alexis Macklin (Carlow University), Tim Schlak (Robert Morris University) & Jill Wurm (Wayne State University)
Keywords: scholarly publishing; open access; values-based collections; marketing; design-thinking
The value proposition for academic libraries is changing dramatically as big deals go away, budgets are cut, and content is reduced. For many years, the size and scope of the collection defined the value of the library. Today, libraries face an existential crisis of purpose. If collections are no longer the defining factor, what is? And, as the Open Access movement accelerates, who will pay for and manage scholarly publications? Librarians anticipated a larger role than they are currently playing, but there is time to change that trajectory.
The Values, Vision, and Voice Toolkit (V3T) provides guidance for engaging the campus community and shaping the dialogue around the role of libraries in the transformation of scholarly publishing. The focus of the toolkit outlines the principles and strategies that support Open Access, while defining values-based collection policies. Guidance is based on research; established in communications techniques; and the shared experience of a community of practice exploring Open Access and transformative agreements as part of a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
V3T is 3-part navigational system, rooted in design thinking, that includes setting priorities (values), developing a strategic direction (vision), and getting buy-in and support (voice) as libraries transition from managing collections to negotiating, brokering, and distributing content in new and innovative ways. The toolkit shows librarians how to conduct a research profile and customize a plan for participating in Open Access, and, where feasible, invest in transformative agreements. Next, it outlines ways to measure the impact of libraries as the value proposition changes from managing collections to managing scholarly output. Finally, it provides marketing tools promoting the library as a partner in Open access and scholarly publishing. Does it work? Come on the journey with us, chart a course, and test the toolkit. ---
Do More with ROR, the Research Organization RegistryAmanda French (Crossref)
Keywords: Metadata, infrastructure, open research, persistent identifiers, standards
ROR, the Research Organization Registry, can help college and university libraries track their institution's research output and can help publishers manage peer review and transformative agreements. More than that, ROR IDs can enrich the whole research ecosystem and can make new analyses possible. In this session, participants will learn about ROR, see examples of integrations by libraries and publishers, and suggest search terms for live demonstrations of systems that use ROR.
To begin with, participants will learn the basics about ROR, “a community-led registry of open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifiers for every research organization in the world” that launched in 2019. Unlike organizational identifiers such as ISNI, Ringgold, Wikidata, and GRID, ROR is designed for the specific use case of matching scholarly researchers with their employers, funders, and publishers. Moreover, ROR is non-proprietary and free, with all records provided under a CC0 waiver and no charge for API use. It is a community initiative, jointly operated by the California Digital Library, Crossref, and DataCite in collaboration with dozens of expert international advisors.
Next, participants will see real-world adoptions of ROR by libraries and publishers. Caltech Library, for instance, now adds its own ROR ID to all the records in its ETD repository, CaltechThesis, sending its unique institutional identifier to indexers and harvesters that support ROR. Among publishers, Hindawi (recently acquired by Wiley) has created a typeahead widget in its manuscript submission system that allows authors to select their affiliated institution from a controlled list managed by the ROR API. Hindawi sends those author affiliations to Crossref and uses them to generate internal reports.
Finally, participants will be invited to suggest search terms as the presenter gives a live demonstration of the ROR search interface and the ROR-powered institutional search and browse functions of DataCite Commons, OpenAlex, and ORCID.
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Come Fly With Me: Unleashing Your Oral History Program with AviaryHeather Gilbert (College of Charleston) & Tyler Mobley (College of Charleston)
Keywords: Oral History, Audiovisual Collections, Aviary, Content Migration, Catalog Integration
Now that audio and video recording hardware is easy to use, highly portable, affordable, and capable of producing high quality content, many universities are seeing a rise in demand for oral history projects and programs on their campuses. The burden of preserving and providing access to this complex format typically falls on the library, oftentimes with no prior involvement or consultation with library staff. This can be challenging when many library staff have no formal training in oral history and only a passing familiarity with the format.
Join Librarians from the College of Charleston as they quickly review how to use the AVPreserve’s audiovisual content platform, Aviary, to build a successful oral history program. The presenters will share techniques for managing an influx of oral histories from campus stakeholders and brief details on how to make efficient use of time-coded transcripts and indices for the best user experience possible. Presenters will also share the experience of building new oral history programs that coexist alongside migrated audiovisual materials from legacy systems and how they handled the visual identity and user experience of such a program. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of how to handle completed oral history projects, how to develop new programs, and how Aviary makes that work possible and more streamlined than previous systems.
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Creating a River Out of Many Streams: One Academic Library's Approach to Managing Film ContentKatherine Heilman (UNC Greensboro)
Keywords: Streaming Media, electronic resources management
Streaming media is difficult to manage for many reasons, to include the multitude of platforms and content providers, varied distribution rights, time-intensive mediation, and the fact that much of film content is acquired title-by-title with unique license term dates. One academic library sought to mitigate these pain points by developing an in-house management tool that harnesses its streaming media collection into one place. This presentation will demonstrate the tool and show how its searchable database stores vital acquisitions data and includes automated workflows that reduce library staff mediation and optimize discoverability for patrons.
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Friday, November 4, 2022 9:30 AM EDT
Values, Vision, and Voice: A toolkit for navigating Open Access and the changing landscape of scholarly publication.
Alexis Macklin (Carlow University), Tim Schlak (Robert Morris University) & Jill Wurm (Wayne State University)
Keywords: scholarly publishing; open access; values-based collections; marketing; design-thinking
The value proposition for academic libraries is changing dramatically as big deals go away, budgets are cut, and content is reduced. For many years, the size and scope of the collection defined the value of the library. Today, libraries face an existential crisis of purpose. If collections are no longer the defining factor, what is? And, as the Open Access movement accelerates, who will pay for and manage scholarly publications? Librarians anticipated a larger role than they are currently playing, but there is time to change that trajectory.
The Values, Vision, and Voice Toolkit (V3T) provides guidance for engaging the campus community and shaping the dialogue around the role of libraries in the transformation of scholarly publishing. The focus of the toolkit outlines the principles and strategies that support Open Access, while defining values-based collection policies. Guidance is based on research; established in communications techniques; and the shared experience of a community of practice exploring Open Access and transformative agreements as part of a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
V3T is 3-part navigational system, rooted in design thinking, that includes setting priorities (values), developing a strategic direction (vision), and getting buy-in and support (voice) as libraries transition from managing collections to negotiating, brokering, and distributing content in new and innovative ways. The toolkit shows librarians how to conduct a research profile and customize a plan for participating in Open Access, and, where feasible, invest in transformative agreements. Next, it outlines ways to measure the impact of libraries as the value proposition changes from managing collections to managing scholarly output. Finally, it provides marketing tools promoting the library as a partner in Open access and scholarly publishing. Does it work? Come on the journey with us, chart a course, and test the toolkit. ---
Do More with ROR, the Research Organization RegistryAmanda French (Crossref)
Keywords: Metadata, infrastructure, open research, persistent identifiers, standards
ROR, the Research Organization Registry, can help college and university libraries track their institution's research output and can help publishers manage peer review and transformative agreements. More than that, ROR IDs can enrich the whole research ecosystem and can make new analyses possible. In this session, participants will learn about ROR, see examples of integrations by libraries and publishers, and suggest search terms for live demonstrations of systems that use ROR.
To begin with, participants will learn the basics about ROR, “a community-led registry of open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifiers for every research organization in the world” that launched in 2019. Unlike organizational identifiers such as ISNI, Ringgold, Wikidata, and GRID, ROR is designed for the specific use case of matching scholarly researchers with their employers, funders, and publishers. Moreover, ROR is non-proprietary and free, with all records provided under a CC0 waiver and no charge for API use. It is a community initiative, jointly operated by the California Digital Library, Crossref, and DataCite in collaboration with dozens of expert international advisors.
Next, participants will see real-world adoptions of ROR by libraries and publishers. Caltech Library, for instance, now adds its own ROR ID to all the records in its ETD repository, CaltechThesis, sending its unique institutional identifier to indexers and harvesters that support ROR. Among publishers, Hindawi (recently acquired by Wiley) has created a typeahead widget in its manuscript submission system that allows authors to select their affiliated institution from a controlled list managed by the ROR API. Hindawi sends those author affiliations to Crossref and uses them to generate internal reports.
Finally, participants will be invited to suggest search terms as the presenter gives a live demonstration of the ROR search interface and the ROR-powered institutional search and browse functions of DataCite Commons, OpenAlex, and ORCID.
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Come Fly With Me: Unleashing Your Oral History Program with AviaryHeather Gilbert (College of Charleston) & Tyler Mobley (College of Charleston)
Keywords: Oral History, Audiovisual Collections, Aviary, Content Migration, Catalog Integration
Now that audio and video recording hardware is easy to use, highly portable, affordable, and capable of producing high quality content, many universities are seeing a rise in demand for oral history projects and programs on their campuses. The burden of preserving and providing access to this complex format typically falls on the library, oftentimes with no prior involvement or consultation with library staff. This can be challenging when many library staff have no formal training in oral history and only a passing familiarity with the format.
Join Librarians from the College of Charleston as they quickly review how to use the AVPreserve’s audiovisual content platform, Aviary, to build a successful oral history program. The presenters will share techniques for managing an influx of oral histories from campus stakeholders and brief details on how to make efficient use of time-coded transcripts and indices for the best user experience possible. Presenters will also share the experience of building new oral history programs that coexist alongside migrated audiovisual materials from legacy systems and how they handled the visual identity and user experience of such a program. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of how to handle completed oral history projects, how to develop new programs, and how Aviary makes that work possible and more streamlined than previous systems.
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Creating a River Out of Many Streams: One Academic Library's Approach to Managing Film ContentKatherine Heilman (UNC Greensboro)
Keywords: Streaming Media, electronic resources management
Streaming media is difficult to manage for many reasons, to include the multitude of platforms and content providers, varied distribution rights, time-intensive mediation, and the fact that much of film content is acquired title-by-title with unique license term dates. One academic library sought to mitigate these pain points by developing an in-house management tool that harnesses its streaming media collection into one place. This presentation will demonstrate the tool and show how its searchable database stores vital acquisitions data and includes automated workflows that reduce library staff mediation and optimize discoverability for patrons.
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Dr. Amanda French, the Technical Community Manager for ROR at Crossref, is a well-known project director and community manager in digital humanities and scholarly communication. During the first year of the pandemic, she served as Community Lead at The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic, working with more than 800 volunteers to collect and publish key COVID-19 data. Earlier, she managed the "Resilient Networks for Inclusive Digital Humanities" project at GWU Libraries, directed the Digital Research Services unit at Virginia Tech Libraries, and led the THATCamp unconference initiative at GMU's Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.
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Heather Gilbert is the Associate Dean of Collection and Content Services for the College of Charleston Libraries. In this capacity, Special Collections as well as the Acquisitions and Resource Management, Descriptive and Cataloging Services, and the Digital Services units are all under her purview. Additionally, Gilbert serves as a Director of the Lowcountry Digital Library and an Associate Director for the South Carolina Digital Library. Her research interests include evidence-based collection development, copyright and cultural heritage materials, digital librarianship, and digital preservation.
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Katherine Heilman is the Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Prior to that, she was the Lead Collections and Acquisitions Librarian at the Central Intelligence Agency Library. She has a MLIS from Syracuse University; a MS in Education from the City University of New York (CUNY); and a BA in Political Science from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. Katherine’s interests include the electronic resource life cycle, consortium negotiation, process improvement, and equities in recruitment and hiring practices.
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