Policies, Services and Resources for
Increasing Access to KU Scholarship
Brian Rosenblum
Central Scientific Library
Kharkiv National University
May 27, 2010
5 ways KU Libraries is supporting open
access and digital scholarship
Outline of today’s talk
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way #1
way #2
way #3
way #4
way #5
New Roles for Academic Libraries
Providing stewardship over locally produced
scholarship and ensuring that it is accessible
to an external, worldwide audience
Working directly with faculty and research
units before and during the creation and prepublication stage of research
Incorporating scholarly communication
issues into information literacy programs for
faculty and students
5 ways KU Libraries is supporting open
access and digital scholarship
1. KU ScholarWorks
(institutional repository)
2. Digital Publishing
3. Education, Outreach, Advocacy
4. Open Access Policy (2009-10)
5. New organizational structures
and programs
(Center for Digital Scholarship)
Lawrence, Kansas
University of Kansas
Undergraduate Students: 23,000
Graduate Students: 6,000
Faculty Members: 2,300
Research Centers: 8 on Lawrence
campus
Federal Grants: over $200 million
Libraries: 4 million volumes
5 library buildings, one central
WAY #1
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY
KU ScholarWorks
http://www.ku.edu/~scholar
Managing our institutional repository
Technical issues are important, but
bigger challenges in running a
repository are
 developing policies and workflows
 marketing, outreach, education
 rights and permissions
WAY #2
DIGITAL PUBLISHING
Digital Publishing Services
https://journals.ku.edu
Some Journals at KU
Software Publishing Platforms
•KU ScholarWorks (D-Space)
• http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu
•Journals@KU (OJS)
• http://journals.ku.edu
• http://pkp.sfu.ca/
•eXtensible Text Framework (XTF)
 Supports indexing, querying, display of XML documents (TEI and
EAD)
 http://etext.ku.edu
JOURNALS
 American Studies*
 Biodiversity Informatics*
 Center for East Asian
Studies Publication Series
 Folklorica: Slavic and East
European Folklore
Association
 Journal of Dramatic Theory
and Criticism*
 Kansas Working Papers in
Linguistics
 Latin American Theatre
Review*
 Slovene Linguistic Studies
 Social Thought and
Research
 KU Paleontological
Contributions
*=OJS journal
MONOGRAPHS
 Biographical Dictionary
of Kansas Artists
 Cartobibliography of
Maps in 18th Century
British and American
Geographical Works
 Greetings from the
Teklimakan: A Handbook
of Modern Uyghur
 Pontificalia: A Repertory
of Latin Manuscript
Pontificals and
Benedictionals
 Niccolò Perotti's
Rudimenta Grammatices
 Jesuatti Book of
Remedies
Some statistics
Title
# of Articles
Downloads
in April 2010
American Studies
1111
42,959
Latin American Theater
Review
1614
59,240
Biodiversity Informatics
26
1,661
Folklorica: Journal of the
Slavic and E. European
Folklore Association
200
6,363
Biographical Dictionary of (monograph in
12,351 (Since
Kansas Artists
KU ScholarWorks) Aug 2006)
Handbook of Uyghur
Language
(textbook)
1,264 (Since
Dec 2009)
Some next steps…
Statistics (usage, submissions, citations)
Host “Editors Forum”
Explore print-on-demand services, new ebook formats, multi-media
Pilot project with University Press
More training and education
info literacy and educational opportunities on
campus.
WAY #3
EDUCATION, OUTREACH,
ADVOCACY
Education, Outreach, Advocacy
Advise faculty in their roles as instructors, authors,
editors, publishers
Assist with rights and permissions
Maintain scholarly communication website
Organize workshops on copyright issues and digital
scholarship
Advocate through university governance and
administrative channels, shape discussions of OA
and data policies
Educate and train other librarians and students
Pay attention and be engaged
WAY #4
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
Open Access Policy
for University of Kansas Scholarship
Faculty members grant permission to the university
to make a copy of their scholarly journal articles
available in the open access repository, KU
ScholarWorks.”
PURPOSE: Provide the broadest possible access to
the journal literature authored by KU faculty.
Approved May 2009 (& February 2010)
 https://documents.ku.edu/policies/governance/OpenAccess.htm
http://openaccess.ku.edu
WAY #5
NEW ORGANIZATIONAL UNITS
AND PROGRAMS
New Organizational Units and Programs at
KU Libraries
Center for Digital Scholarship
scholarly communication, digital
publishing, digital imaging, GIS, data, lab &
equipment
Institute for Digital Research in the
Humanities
Libraries have growing scholarly
communication programs which are
becoming core activities….
Librarians have a unique set of skills which
puts us at the center of campus teaching and
learning…
….how do we continue to build skills,
expertise, organizational and funding models
to sustain these programs?
Further Reading
 University Publishing In A Digital Age (Ithaka)
 http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/university-publishing
 Talk About Talking About New Models of Scholarly
Communication (Karla Hahn)
 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0011.108
 ARL: A Bimonthly Report: Special Issue on University
Publishing
 http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br252-253.shtml
 Research Library Issues #269 (April 2010), "Strategies for
Opening Up Content”
 http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/rli/
 A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States
(Diane Zorich) / Council on Library and Information Resources
(CLIR)
 http://www.clir.org
Library-based
publishing initiatives
Scholarly Publishing Office (Michigan)
 http://spo.umdl.umich.edu
Center for Innovative Publishing (Cornell)
 http://cip.cornell.edu
eScholarship (California)
 http://www.cdlib.org/programs/escholarship.html
University of Kansas Digital Publishing
Services
 http://kudiglib.ku.edu/epublishing.shtml
Other OA Resources
 SPARC
 http://www.arl.org/sparc/
 OAISIS
 http://www.openoasis.org/
 European Open Scholar
 http://www.openscholarship.org
 SHERPA/RoMEO database
 http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
 OA Advocacy Checklist for Research Libraries (PDF)
 http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/lis/ticer/09carte/public
at/17Swan_paper.pdf
 eIFL
 http://www.eifl.net
дякую / Спасиба / Thank you
Brian Rosenblum
Scholarly Digital Initiatives Librarian
University of Kansas
brianlee@ku.edu