OA Week 2012:
Scholarly Communication
& Publishing Update
Office of Scholarly Communication & Publishing
University Library System
University of Pittsburgh
What’s new?
New journals
OSCP website
New repository
Citation management
software (Mendeley)
Author fee fund
OASPA
COPE
Altmetrics (Plum
Analytics)
RES, Ask-a-Librarian,
Knowledge Tracker
ETD migration &
increased content in DScholarship
So what? Who? When? Where? Why?
 Why are we doing all of this?
 Why is this important to the library, to the university,
to *me*?
 It’s all about you . . . and scholarly communication
Scholarly communication defined
 The process by which scientists and scholars
record and publish the results of their research
 Traditionally achieved by publishing in scholarly
journals
 More recently, includes new modes of sharing,
transformation, dissemination, curation and
preservation of research and knowledge in all
formats
Scholarly communication:
Contemporary
Scholarly communication: Traditional
Changes in scholarly communication
 Changing economic models
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The ‘big deal’
Pay per view model
Open Access publishing
Hybrid Open Access
Self-publishing
The library as publisher
Changes in Scholarly Communication
 New ways of disseminating research
– Document repositories & gray literature online
– Web sites, blogs, social networks
 New ways of evaluating research and its impact
– Peer review models are changing
– Alternative measures of research impact (altmetrics)
 Changing laws
– DMCA
– Research Works Act
– Google Books Copyright Settlement & aftermath
Office of Scholarly
Communication and Publishing
 Established in 2011
 Responsible for publishing new content:
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Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Subject-based repositories
D-Scholarship@Pitt (institutional repository)
Journal publishing (33 titles and growing!)
Monograph publishing
 Offer training, support and consultation for
scholarly communications issues
Office of Scholarly
Communication and Publishing
 Help with best practices for:
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General copyright issues
University Copyright (Open Access) Policy
Fair use
Author rights and responsibilities
Publishing issues/interactions with publishers
Open Access publishing options
Compliance with government or funder OA mandates
Coming soon: data curation
Office of Scholarly
Communication and Publishing
oscp@mail.pitt.edu
http://oscp.library.pitt.edu
 Tim Deliyannides, Director
 John Barnett, Scholarly Communications Librarian
 Jennifer Chan, Asst. Scholarly Comm. Librarian
 Vanessa Gabler, Electronic Publications Associate
ULS server room 2008
Office of Scholarly Communication and
Publishing, October 2012
Libraries as Publishers – Current Trends
 More than 75% of ARL libraries offer or plan to offer
publishing services.
 Dedicated publishing staff in libraries are rare.
 Most libraries do not have sustainability plans for
their publishing program.
Source: Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success Research Report , v. 1.0. http://wp.sparc.arl.org/lps/
Why become a Publisher?
 Provide services that scholars understand, need
and value
 Incentivize Open Access
 Transform the subscription pricing system that
punishes libraries and scholars
 Deepen our understanding of scholarly
communications issues
All in the name of Open Access
 A family of copyright licensing policies under which
authors and copyright owners make their works
publicly available
 A movement in higher education to increase access
to scholarly research and communication
 A response to the current crisis in scholarly
communication
 Open Access literature is digital, online, free of
charge, and free of most copyright and licensing
restrictions
Open Access/copyright policy at Pitt
 Provides for Open Access dissemination of
scholarly works by University authors
 Articles only—but other research is welcome
 New works only—those published after adoption of
the policy
 Applicable only to the University schools and
responsibility centers that adopt it
 Scholarly works to be deposited in DScholarship@Pitt by OSCP
Compact for Open-Access Publishing
Equity (COPE)
 Pitt is newest signatory, joining 16 other institutions
 Incentive to publish in Open Access Journals
 The ULS will pay author fees for eligible journals
from OA Author Fee Fund
 Authors from the 6 schools of the Health Sciences
not eligible
 Application form at:
http://oscp.library.pitt.edu/author-fees-fund/
ULS Leadership in advocacy for
OA publishing
 Founding member of Coalition for Library
Publishing
 Major development partner for Public
Knowledge Project (PKP)
 First library publisher in North
America to join the Open Access
Scholarly Publishers Association
(OASPA)
Sustaining our publishing program
 Since July 1, 2012, we charge fees for services to all
new publishing partners
 We incentivize Open Access through subsidies
 We subsidize Pitt publications
 Pitt student publications are still free!
Scholarly Exchange™
 http://www.scholarlyexchange.org
 Approximately 40 additional Open Access journals
 Acquired by the ULS on August 1, 2012
 Hosting service only
 ULS is NOT the publisher and does not provide
publishing services
Some questions
“Is anyone Tweeting about my research?”
“I’m trying to find my master’s essay from 1950. Why
isn’t it online?”
“Can I publish my ETD anonymously?”
“Can I use a picture of the Cathedral of Learning on a
t-shirt?”
“I am publishing a book. I found all these ‘free’ images
on the web. Can I use these?”
Where would you go for answers?
The 3 R’s: RES, referrals & relationships
 RES training in scholarly communication
 Ask-a-Librarian & Knowledge Tracker
 Citation management software (Mendeley)
 Altmetrics (Plum Analytics)
 Subject-based repositories
 OSCP website
 D-Scholarship & ETDs
Mendeley: A social network for research
Reference/citation
manager
Social network for
research
Research awareness
& sharing
Plum Analytics: Measuring impact
Altmetrics
Measuring impact of
new forms of scholarly
communication
Citation Searching &
Bibliometrics LibGuide:
– http://pitt.libguides.co
m/bibliometrics
OSCP website
Author fees fund
E-journal publishing
Glossary
Twitter feed
More to come
D-Scholarship@Pitt
 The University’s institutional repository
 Preservation
 Improved discoverability of research
 Improved citability – stable URL
 Highlights achievements of Pitt and its faculty
 Supports university mission of service by sharing
scholarship with the global academic community
 Anyone can view/use worldwide
(Almost) 10,000 and counting
ETDs
 Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
– Initiative begun in 2001
– Required by School of Engineering in 2002
– ETDs required for all programs by December 2004
graduation
 Now deposited, accessible via D-Scholarship@Pitt
 More than 4,800 in D-Scholarship
Open Access Week
 Annual, international celebration of
Open Access, October 22-28, 2012
 Events @Pitt
– October 17—ULS OA event
– October 22—Mendeley event
– October 24—Plum Analytics event
 OA@Pitt website
– http://openaccess.pitt.edu
Contact us
oscp@mail.pitt.edu
http://oscp.library.pitt.edu
ULS Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing
 Tim Deliyannides, Director
 John Barnett, Scholarly Communications Librarian
 Jennifer Chan, Asst. Scholarly Communications Librarian
 Vanessa Gabler, Electronic Publications Associate