Balancing influence in a shifting scholarly communication landscape: Creating library-owned, community-aligned infrastructure through individual, local, and community action

Wipperman, Sarah; Martin, Shawn; Bowley, Chealsye

doi:10.5860/crln.79.5.244

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“…This is also a concern in developing countries, which struggle to foot the bill for access prices ( Arunachalam, 2017 ; Tennant et al , 2016 ). Another issue is that the money spent on access to paywalled content could be used instead for the benefit of scholars: “it means less support is going back into our library communities and that we have less agency in the future development of scholarly communication infrastructure” ( Wipperman et al , 2018 , 244).…”

Section: Scholarly Communication: From Theory To Infrastructurementioning

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The case for an inclusive scholarly communication infrastructure for social sciences and humanities

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This article presents a vision for a scholarly communication research infrastructure for social sciences and humanities (SSH). The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the pressing need to access research outputs without the traditional economic and temporal barriers. This article explores the current scholarly communication landscape, assessing the reasons for the slower uptake of open access in SSH research. The authors discuss such frontiers as commercial interests, sources of academic prestige and discipline-specific genres. This article defines and discusses the key areas in which a research infrastructure can play a vital role in making open scholarly communication a reality in SSH: (1) providing a federated and easy access to scattered SSH outputs; (2) supporting publication and dissemination of discipline-specific genres (e.g. monographs, critical editions); (3) providing help with evaluation and quality assurance practices in SSH; (4) enabling scholarly work in national languages, which is significant for local communities; (5) being governed by researchers and for researchers as a crucial factor for productive, useful and accessible services; (6) lastly, considering the needs of other stakeholders involved in scholarly communication, such as publishers, libraries, media, non-profit organisations, and companies. They conclude that a scholarly-driven, inclusive, dedicated infrastructure for the European Research Area is needed in order to advance open science in SSH and to address the issues tackled by SSH researchers at a structural and systemic level.

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Section: Scholarly Communication: From Theory To Infrastructurementioning

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The case for an inclusive scholarly communication infrastructure for social sciences and humanities

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“…Institutions are required to make a distinction between funding that allows for APCs and research that does not have this capacity, and the conditions then placed onto those researchers. 2 Institutions are also increasingly publishing research [5,6], from hosting open access journals, on platforms such as the Open Journal Systems [7] (OJS), which are free to publish in and free to read, the cost of hosting is paid for by the institution to new University Presses [8]. Institutions are increasingly collaborating to meet the needs of researchers in this way, such as with The Northern Collaboration [9] and White Rose Press [10] in the U.K.. For researchers, this provides a platform for innovation, especially for fields that cross disciplinary boundaries or are emerging fields of research.…”

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The role of the institution in scholarly publishing

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2018

Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

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In providing a supportive and sustainable research environment, the institution has a key role to play in scholarly publishing. Whether that be as a guide, assisting researchers through the maze of publishing options and access to specialist audiences, or as an auditor for funders, or as a financer, agreeing article processing charges and subsidising website maintenance. Equally, the institution is the specialist systems developer and protector of the ‘unpublished’ research. This ensures repositories meet the needs of their researchers. In a wider context, the institution is the rewarder of scholarly publishing though promotions and the horizon scanner, preparing researchers for what is coming next. This piece looks at how the multiple roles of the institution in scholarly publishing impact researchers.

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Balancing influence in a shifting scholarly communication landscape: Creating library-owned, community-aligned infrastructure through individual, local, and community action

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The case for an inclusive scholarly communication infrastructure for social sciences and humanities

The case for an inclusive scholarly communication infrastructure for social sciences and humanities

The role of the institution in scholarly publishing

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