Scholarly Communication 101: Starting With the Basics
OVERVIEW
Background
ACRL is extending the reach of the “Scholarly Communication 101: Starting with the Basics”
workshop offered at the ACRL 14th National Conference in Seattle and subsequently offered
to five locations around the country in the Summers of 2009 and 2010. We encourage
librarians to make use of materials developed for the workshop (available in the Scholarly
Communication Toolkit at http://www.acrl.ala.org/scholcomm) to enhance their own
knowledge or adapt them to offer related workshops on their own campuses.
As originally designed, the half-day workshop emphasizes experiential learning and requires
two or more presenters. This structured, interactive overview of the scholarly
communication system underpins individual or institutional strategic planning and action.
Four modules focus on:
 economics
 copyright and author rights
 open access and openness as a principle
 faculty engagement around new models of scholarly publishing and communication
Audience
The primary audience is librarians and library staff (i.e. liaison librarians, catalogers, access
services staff, senior management) who need good grounding in these issues. The workshop
is appropriate for those with new leadership assignments in scholarly communication as well
as liaisons and others who are interested in the issues and need foundational
understanding. While you may consider this as an opportunity to invite selected staff
outside the library (i.e. research office, graduate college), it is not designed for disciplinary
faculty or graduate students. This workshop could serve as a stepping stone for the library,
perhaps along with campus partners, to organize a later event for a broader audience.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
 Understand scholarly communication as a system to manage the results of research
and scholarly inquiry and be able to describe system characteristics, including
academic libraries and other major stakeholders and stakeholder interests, major
types and sources of current stress and evolution, and key indicators of size,
complexity, and rates of change.
 Enumerate new modes and models of scholarly communication; business models;
research & social interaction models (from blogs, curated websites, etc.), and peer
review models and examples of the ways in which academic libraries have or can
initiate or support faculty in those models.
 Be able to select and cite key principles, facts, and messages relevant to current or
nascent scholarly communication plans and programs in their institutions, e.g. as
preparation for library staff or faculty outreach, to contextualize collection
development decisions.
This work was created by Joy Kirchner for the ACRL workshop “Scholarly Communication 101:
Starting With the Basics” and last updated May 2010. It is licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Scholarly Communication 101: Starting With the Basics
WORKSHOP AGENDA
8:00 – 8:30am
Registration / Breakfast
8:30 -
Welcome & Introductions (Speakers: ____________________)
Reflection Exercise
9:00 -
System Perspective of Scholarly Communication and
Economics (includes discussion)
9:50
Copyright and Intellectual Property (includes exercises)
10:30 – 10:45
Break
10:50
Open Access & Openness as a Principle (discussion)
11:40
Faculty Engagement Around New Models (includes exercise)
Perspectives from the Trenches
12: 15
Conclusion and Wrap Up Discussion
12:30 – 1:30
Lunch
This work was created by Joy Kirchner for the ACRL workshop “Scholarly Communication 101:
Starting With the Basics” and last updated May 2010. It is licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/