Scholarly Communication Coaching: Liaison Librarians' Shifting Roles

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Abstract

Two and a half decades into the open access (OA) movement, rapid changes in scholarly communication are creating significant demands on scholars. Today’s scholars must wrestle with meeting funder mandates for providing public access to their research, managing and preserving raw data, establishing/publishing open access journals, understanding the difference between “green OA” and “gold OA,” navigating the complicated issues around copyright and intellectual property, avoiding potentially predatory publishers, adapting their tenure plans to OA, and discovering increasing amounts of OA resources for their research and their curricular materials. These demands present an opportunity and a need for librarians to step in and assist scholars with the scholarly communication process.

Todd Bruns ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1197-2521
Steve Brantley ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9880-1361
Kirstin Duffin ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6269-8262
Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationPartnerships and New Roles in the 21st Century Academic Library: Collaborating, Embedding, and Cross-Training for the Future
StatePublished - Oct 1 2015

Keywords

  • scholarly communication
  • open access
  • liaison librarians

Disciplines

  • Collection Development and Management
  • Library and Information Science
  • Scholarly Communication

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