Librarians in transition: Scholarly communication support as a developing core competency

Brantley, Steve; Bruns, Todd; Duffin, Kirstin

doi:10.1080/1941126x.2017.1340718

Cited by 14 publications

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“…Relevant competency frameworks developed by practitioners generally target SC librarians/specialists (Calarco et al, 2016;NASIG, 2017), although NASIG (2017, 1) notes 'scholarly communication impacts all librarians, and as such, specific duties are often diffused through an organization'. There is also a parallel discussion on in-house education for liaison librarians with a focus on OA (Brantley, Bruns and Duffin, 2017;Rodriguez, 2015;Sewell and Kingsley, 2017), which has generated useful learning resources, such as the University of Cambridge downloadable 'handy guides' and three-minute YouTube videos on topics such as OA basics, Creative Commons licences and mirror journals (https://osc.cam.ac.uk/outreach/supporting-researchers-21st-centuryprogramme).…”

Section: Promoting Open Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Databrarian ed? Preparing Information Specialists for Participation in an Open Datafied Society

Corrall¹

2020

Bold Minds

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Section: Promoting Open Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Databrarian ed? Preparing Information Specialists for Participation in an Open Datafied Society

Corrall¹

2020

Bold Minds

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“…Information professionals supporting scholarly communication have emerged to assist researchers in navigating this new landscape. As Brantley, Bruns, and Duffin, (2017) explain, "The activities of scholarly communication-support librarians have grown and changed in recent years due to the increasingly complex nature of modern digital scholarship" (p. 137). For example, Regazzi (2015) identifies big data and big science as two changes that have profoundly affected researchers and the work they do.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Restructuring and Formalizing: Scholarly Communication as a Sustainable Growth Opportunity in Information Agencies?

Million¹,

Vitale²

2019

Preprint

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Emerging technologies are revolutionizing the field of scholarly communication. Because of this, scholars increasingly need specialized support during all stages of the research process. With the academic library as the unit of analysis, two concepts from Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation theory and organizational innovation literature are drawn upon to assess the sustainability of scholarly communication work in libraries. These concepts are organizational restructuring and formalization. Data on Association of Research Libraries (ARL) employees with relevant job titles and three digital curation competencies documents are analysed. Study findings suggest that ARL information agencies have restructured to provide added research support and that skills associated with scholarly communication positions are becoming more uniform. We conclude that scholarly communication information professionals are part of a sustainable area of practice within ARL information agencies, that has matured over the past decade, and this trend is likely to continue in at least the short term.the study of how scholars in any field (e.g., physical, biological, social and behavioural sciences, humanities and technology) use and disseminate information through formal and informal channels. The study of scholarly communication includes the growth of scholarly information, the relationships among research areas and disciplines, the information needs and uses of individual user groups, and the relationships among formal and informal methods of communication (Borgman, 1990, pp. 13-4).Scholarly communication enables the work of researchers at universities and organizations that are dedicated to creating new knowledge. In the United States (U.S.), over half of all federal research dollars are granted to university-affiliated researchers (Regazzi, 2015) making universities a hub for the creation of new knowledge. Supporting ScholarsSupporting scholarly communication on university campuses in an age of emerging technologies has naturally fallen to information professionals based in information agencies, such as academic libraries. Traditionally, academic libraries have divided the expertise they provide into technical services and public services, but given the complexity of technologies combined with the increasingly sophisticated needs of users, a new breed of information professional must emerge (e.g., Kowalski, 2017). In the case of scholarly communication questions, not only must the information professional curate and supply access to scholarship, but he/she must also work with scholars to organize, provide access to, save, and share their work. Providing specialized support to scholars (e.g., Ketchum, 2017) during the research process has quickly become the purview of the academic library.As the needs of researchers and scholars have changed, the work of information professionals has evolved in parallel. Working to support the field of "scholarly communication today reflects a [need to master an ever-growing] constellation of tools, practices...

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“…A number of caveats to active library participation in publishing initiatives have been identified in the literature, with the question of expertise, as well as the question of funding, being left somewhat unresolved. Expertise in scholarly communication (i.e., in this case, "modern digital scholarship") is becoming increasingly common in academic libraries (Brantley, Bruns, and Duffin 2017), but in terms of technical expertise, not necessarily in terms of publishing expertise. Julie Lefevre and Terence K. Huwe advocated in 2013 for the skills and competencies associated with the suite of activities considered digital publishing to be considered core competencies in libraries; by extension, these competencies would also support the technical (emphasis, ours) aspects of academic library publishing.…”

Section: Caveats and Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Academic Library-Based Publishing: A State of the Evolving Art

Sandy¹,

Mattern²

2018

Library Trends

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As technology has advanced, scholarly communication has evolved, creating new opportunities for academic libraries to serve researchers. This article examines the current state and potential future of academic library-based publishing. The review of the literature explores the scholarly communication ecosystem as it pertains to new publishing paradigms supported by academic libraries, including the complexity of nontraditional publishing models. These models and their implications, as well as how they may be implemented, are then explored in the academic library environment. Next, survey data from nineteen academic librarians collected at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in January 2015 is presented. Based on the literature and the survey data, this article argues that the principle concerns for academic library-based publishing going forward include 1) the need for the dedicated and/or sustained financial models for library-based publishing initiatives and 2) the cultural and financial capital to support librarians as they further expand their knowledge and expertise to support additional publishing-related functionalities in support of these new models. Both of these concerns ultimately tie to the persistent question of perceived quality, and by extension, reputation, of library-based publishing and open access publishing more broadly.

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Librarians in transition: Scholarly communication support as a developing core competency

Cited by 14 publications

References 58 publications

Databrarian ed? Preparing Information Specialists for Participation in an Open Datafied Society

Databrarian ed? Preparing Information Specialists for Participation in an Open Datafied Society

Restructuring and Formalizing: Scholarly Communication as a Sustainable Growth Opportunity in Information Agencies?

Academic Library-Based Publishing: A State of the Evolving Art

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