SUNY and Ongoing Changes to Scholarly Communication

John Schumacher

SUNY Office of Library and Information Services

Overview

• Background Information

• Open Archives Initiative

• Open Access Journals

• BioMed Central

• Open Archives

• SUNY Digital Repository

• Next Steps / Librarian Roles

Background

• Crises?

• Change

• Convergence

Responses to Changes in Scholarly Communication

• Open Archives Initiative

• Open Access Journals

• Open Archives– Discipline-based– Institution-based

•Open Archives Initiative

• http://www.openarchives.org/

•OAI-PMH Service Providerhttp://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/

•Open Access Journals

• http://www.doaj.org

•Open Access Journals

• http://www.biomedcentral.com/

•Open Archives - Discipline-based

• http://www.arxiv.org/

• http://www.repec.org/

• http://cogprints.org/

Institutional Repositories

• “Digital collections capturing and preserving the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community” The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper

Institutional Repositories

•Open Archives - Institution-based

• http://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/

•SUNY Digital Repository

•Publisher’s Policies

• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

•Publisher’s Policies

•Author’s Addendum

• http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.html

• Retain rights to self-archive, etc.

•SUNY Digital Repository

• ETDs

• Visual Resources

• Scholarly Content

Next Steps

• SUNY-wide Consultation/Committee Content Policies Filling IR

New/Continuing Roles for SUNY Librarians

• Collection Development

• Faculty Liaison

• Metadata

• Copyright

• Digital Library Skills

• User Interface Development

What You Can Do

• Learn More

• Discuss Issues

• Reveal Content

• Committee Work

• Support Resolutions/Other Initiatives

•Resources

• Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition http://www.arl.org/sparc/index.html

• SUNY Digital Repository http://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/

• Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/

• BioMed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com

• Open Archives Initiative http://www.openarchives.org/

•Resources continued

• Publisher’s Policies on Self-Archiving http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

• Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/

• Open Access News http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

• The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html

• John.Schumacher@SUNY.EDU 518-443-5577