the role of the librarian in an open access world
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The Role of the Librarian in an Open Access World. Ellen Finnie Duranceau Scholarly Publishing & Licensing Consultant MIT Libraries BioMed Central Consultation Workshop 5/21/07. MIT Librarians & Open Access: Outline. Context and Mission The view from 3,000 feet: New activities - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Role of the Librarian in an Open Access World
Ellen Finnie DuranceauScholarly Publishing & Licensing ConsultantMIT Libraries
BioMed Central Consultation Workshop 5/21/07
MIT Librarians & Open Access: Outline
Context and Mission The view from 3,000 feet: New activities New positions Implications
MIT Context: Culture of Openness
Commitment to “generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges.”
Mission directly related to widest dissemination Expressions of this culture
– OpenCourseWare– Dspace– W3C– Free Software Movement
MIT Libraries’ Mission:Evolution with Open Access
Current (2003): The mission of the MIT libraries is to create and sustain an intuitive, trusted information environment that enables learning and the advancement of knowledge at MIT. We are committed to developing strategies and systems that promote discovery and facilitate worldwide scholarly communication.
1999: The MIT Libraries are creative partners in the research and learning process. We select, organize, present, and preserve information resources relevant to education and research at MIT. We sustain these world-class resources and provide quality services …. We build intellectual connections among these resources and educate the MIT community in the effective use of information. We want to be the place people in the MIT community think of first when they need information.
Key Changes In How We Describe Mission
Creating and sustaining a trusted information environment
Developing strategies and systems that– promote discovery– facilitate worldwide scholarly communication
Consistent with OA world
New Activities
Facilitate Worldwide Scholarly Communication: IRs, Hosting Content
Institutional repository: Dspace – Beginning of shift from libraries purchasing content toward
libraries offering their institution’s content to the world– Efforts in development, marketing, metadata, workflows
Hosting content:– Supporting publication/archiving of open access journal
within libraries: partnership with faculty– Exploring archiving partnership with university press– Preprint site: partnership with faculty– Creating and managing digital collections
Facilitate Worldwide Scholarly Communication: Authors’ rights
New support for authors in relation to rights– Publishing choices– Publishing agreements– Posting to optimize citation, dissemination
Partner with intellectual property counsel, intellectual property committee
Partner with sponsored research (funder requirements)
Facilitate Worldwide Scholarly Communication: Influencing Purchasing & Business Models
No single model to support in near term: variety of roles– Maintaining advocacy for Fair Use principles; push back on
DRM, restrictive licenses and purchase models – Exploring value based pricing– License negotiation and standards
SERU / NISO– Support/initiate dialog with campus administration
Analysis of business/cost models in OA arena– Partnering with administration
Funder requirements– Partnering with sponsored research
Strategies and Systems that Promote Discovery
Evaluating, developing, investing in value-added discovery & delivery tools, especially open source tools
– Looking at:– Data mining & analysis– Social software– Filtering, aggregating tools
Metadata Creation and Management– Looking at:– Author name mapping– Version identification and linking– User generated content
Create and Sustain Trusted Information Environment
Define, evaluate, invest in qualified archiving solutions– Concept of Trusted Archive– Portico, LOCKSS, CLOCKSS– IRs
Create, Identify, Store metadata on trusted archive for digital content – title or even article level
Create and Sustain Trusted Information Environment
Teaching / Instruction– Evaluating sources– Using discovery tools to best advantage– Integration with courses / online tutorials
Partnerships with faculty
Developing software tools that meet social networking [trust] needs– Betas page http://libraries.mit.edu/help/betas/– Open source sharing among libraries/universities
New Positions
New/changed librarian positions since Budapest OA Initiative
Role expansion seen in new positions From 2002-2007
– 14 librarian positions redefined (roughly 20%)
Headcount repurposed, not increased, except:– 2 new FTEs added – 0.5 FTE funded by provost
Position changes in MIT Libraries: 21st century Librarian Roles
Research Group – new group (2002+) – Design and develop tools to support discovery– New vision of role of librarian on campus: research partner,
innovator– Partnerships with CS department, Information Services
Images librarian (2003) GIS librarian (c 2004)
– Train in GIS tools, support GIS service – purchase only part of picture
Data librarian / social sciences focus (c2004)– Offer access to & support for data sets, whether OA or purchased
Position changes in MIT Libraries: 21st century Librarian Roles
Changes in traditional subject specialist role: beyond ‘collection development’ in a subject discipline
Computer science: add interactive research component, working with faculty to operationalize research (2005)
Add internet tools development specialty (2005) Add intensive instruction component, working with faculty to
devise online course-based tutorials (2006) Civil & Env. eng., add GIS responsibilities (c2005) Associate head, engineering library, refocus from circ/access
to outreach program (2006)
– All changes are relevant to OA world
Position changes in MIT Libraries: 21st century Librarian Roles
Information services librarian for engineering & science (2005)– Deemphasize ‘collections’ and even ‘reference’ – focus on services, tools
Metadata specialist (2005) – Support OA activities like MIT’s OpenCourseWare– Participate in campus-wide initiatives related to digital content, not purchased content
Digital products manager (2005) – Build new systems, particularly for more open access to theses
Scholarly publishing consultant (2006) – Support author rights, goal of making MIT’s research more widely available– Partner with institutional research, sponsored research, univ. press, faculty, sponsored research
Dspace [IR] product manager (2007)– Promote use of OA repository and develop features
Associate director, collection services/ change to include systems management (2007)
– Beyond building collections: systems, services, technology in relation to content
Implications
Role of Librarian in Open Access World: Expanding, Deepening
Fundamentals don’t change– Support university in mission of “generating, disseminating, and preserving
knowledge” Move toward OA has led to new, deepened partnerships on campus
– Sponsored research– Institutional research– Intellectual property– University press– Faculty– Information services
Partners in facilitating worldwide scholarly communication in a trusted information environment
Librarians more at the center of the campus than when our gateways and collections were the only game in town
Librarian’s Role in OA World?
“I thought the faculty committee on the library system would be three years of dry drudgery. But it turns out librarians in their new role are now located at the center of the most contentious and important issues of the day.” --faculty member, 2007