Overview
Liaison teams promote and advise on the process of creating, sharing, and evaluating academic research and knowledge. The scholarly communication core competency includes maintaining an understanding of how scholarly communication works, including different publishing models, digital tools, and emerging trends in assigned areas. Liaisons advise on scholarly communications principles and practices that may include, but are not limited to, open access publishing, funding mandates, data management, author(s) rights, and copyright in assigned areas. Liaisons collaborate to highlight and disseminate research, raise awareness around scholarly communication issues, and produce, when possible, with partners in assigned areas.
Baseline Knowledge
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ACRL Scholarly Communication ToolkitThe Toolkit was designed to provide its users with a basic understanding of scholarly communication issues in the context of their impact upon libraries.
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The Scholarly Communication Handbook
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Call Number: Online accessISBN: 9781783306251Publication Date: 2023This handbook provides “a comprehensive overview of the knowledge required for understanding and navigating the scholarly communication landscape.”
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Copyright for Educators and Librarians“Fear and uncertainty about copyright law often plagues educators and sometimes prevents creative teaching. This course is a professional development opportunity designed to provide a basic introduction to US copyright law and to empower teachers and librarians at all grade levels. Course participants will discover that the law is designed to help educators and librarians.”
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NASIG Core Competencies for Scholarly Communication Librarians“The following Core Competencies for Scholarly Communication Librarians were developed out of research and discussion conducted by the NASIG Scholarly Communication Core Competencies Task Force."
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U.S. Copyright Office - Learning Video Series"The Learning Engine series of videos introduces copyright concepts and the Copyright Office to those who may be new to the topic or who want to learn more."
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Copyright Resources For Libraries And The People Who Work In ThemA list compiled by the Library Copyright Institute.
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About CC LicensesBrief overview of the different Creative Commons licenses
Advanced Knowledge
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Creative Commons Certificate for Academic Librarians
(10-week online course, $500): “in-depth courses about CC licenses, open practices and the ethos of the Commons. Courses are composed of readings, quizzes, discussions, and practical exercises to develop learners’ open skills.” -
Copyright Courses by Copyrightlaws.com
(Courses held throughout the year; at varying costs) Copyrightlaws.com offers a certificate program, individual courses on a variety of topics, and general resources. Some of their courses include topics such as obtaining permission, demystifying copyright myths, legally using images, and more.
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Open Access
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Call Number: Online AccessPublication Date: 2012A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial. -
Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge
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Call Number: Online AccessPublication Date: 2023Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge is an open textbook and practitioner's guide that collects theory, practice, and case studies from nearly 80 experts in scholarly communication and open education. This books is divided into three parts: What is Scholarly Communication?; Scholarly Communication and Open Culture; and Voices from the Field: Perspectives, Intersections, and Case Studies. This book is also available as an open access edition at https://bit.ly/SCLAOK -
The Scholarly Communications Cookbook
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Call Number: Online AccessPublication Date: 2021The Scholarly Communications Cookbook features 84 recipes that can help you establish programs, teach concepts, conduct outreach, and use scholarly communications technologies in your library. The book is divided into 4 thorough sections: 1. Taking Your Program to the Next Level2. Open Educational Resources3. Publishing Models and Open Access4. Tools, Trends, and Best Practices for Modern ResearchersRecipes can be used by those new to scholarly communications, early-career librarians, and more experienced professionals looking for fresh ideas for their institution. Each recipe includes outcomes for implementing the project, and many also include outcomes for end-users like workshop attendees. Chefs have also aligned recipes to standards and frameworks, including the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, the ACRL Scholarly Communications Toolkit, and NASIG's Core Competencies for Scholarly Communication Librarians.
Strategies
If you’re not sure how or where to start, begin perusing the ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit beginning with the Scholarly Communications Overview tab. Or if reading is more your thing, start with a couple of chapters in The Scholarly Communication Handbook: From Research Dissemination to Societal Impact. From there, you’ll likely discover more specific aspects that interest you.
If you know what aspect of scholarly communication to which you’d like to devote some professional development time, such as copyright, then start off with some free resources like the U.S. Copyright Office - Learning Video Series. These are largely short, bite-sized learning objects. Or try reading a book chapter or two on the subject using one of the suggested texts above. Then, progress to a free course such as Copyright for Educators and Librarians. If you’d like to deepen your understanding and obtain some advanced knowledge, look into longer-term courses or certificate programs like those offered by Copyrightlaws.com. Try following a similar professional development path for other areas of scholarly communications that either interest you or for which you would like to develop knowledge or build skills.
Contacts
UK community members can contact the following people and offices with questions.
Copyright
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Carla Cantagallo, Liaison to the College of DesignGeneral copyright
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Kyle Bachman-Johnson, UKnowledge Library Manager SeniorRepositories and UKnowledge
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Karyn Hinkle, Director of the Fine Arts and Design LibraryArt, music, and performance
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Jennifer Hootman, Coordinator of Digital Scholarship & Data / History LibrarianDigital scholarship
Open Educational Resources
Repositories
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Kyle Bachman-Johnson, UKnowledge Library Manager SeniorUKnowledge (UK's institutional repository)
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Isaac Wink, Research Data LibrarianData repositories