Digital Common+ Great Lakes User Group 2015

Type of Program

Presentation

Location

Bernath Auditorium, Undergraduate Library, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Start Date

31-7-2015 11:35 AM

End Date

31-7-2015 12:05 PM

Program Description

The scholarly communications program and institutional repository at Grand Valley State University began in 2008, and in its first seven years, grew rapidly. Our team, recently-expanded, now includes three full time positions, and through our repository we host open textbooks, open-access journals, and thousands of documents. Our initial growth was organic and opportunistic, which enabled this initiative to successfully take root in the University Libraries. The next challenge for our scholarly communications program is to make sure those early roots are strong and healthy, so that we can sustain our initial success through the next seven years and beyond.

In this session, we will dig in to the details of that challenge. While the pace of our early growth kept our staff busy taking advantage of new opportunities, our most recent position—Publishing Services Manager— has enabled us to take a look back and evaluate what we have already accomplished. Our Publishing Services Manager has started a journal evaluation project to explore the health and quality of our open-access journals, and we will discuss the process and potential next steps for this project. At the same time, the scholarly communications team is conducting a comprehensive review of the policies, procedures, and documentation we have created, in order to ensure consistency, clarity, and good practice. We’ll describe this ongoing process, as well as our environmental scan of GVSU’s liaison librarians—a series of conversations to evaluate their engagement and familiarity with scholarly communications issues and our services.

With each of these projects, we’re exploring how to understand and define success in an established institutional repository and scholarly communications program, not just how to sustain it and keep it going. We hope to catalyze a conversation about this, and about how our findings influence the ways we work with stakeholders and plan future programs and services.

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Jul 31st, 11:35 AM Jul 31st, 12:05 PM

Evaluating Scholarly Communication Services and Programs to Plan for Sustained Success

Bernath Auditorium, Undergraduate Library, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

The scholarly communications program and institutional repository at Grand Valley State University began in 2008, and in its first seven years, grew rapidly. Our team, recently-expanded, now includes three full time positions, and through our repository we host open textbooks, open-access journals, and thousands of documents. Our initial growth was organic and opportunistic, which enabled this initiative to successfully take root in the University Libraries. The next challenge for our scholarly communications program is to make sure those early roots are strong and healthy, so that we can sustain our initial success through the next seven years and beyond.

In this session, we will dig in to the details of that challenge. While the pace of our early growth kept our staff busy taking advantage of new opportunities, our most recent position—Publishing Services Manager— has enabled us to take a look back and evaluate what we have already accomplished. Our Publishing Services Manager has started a journal evaluation project to explore the health and quality of our open-access journals, and we will discuss the process and potential next steps for this project. At the same time, the scholarly communications team is conducting a comprehensive review of the policies, procedures, and documentation we have created, in order to ensure consistency, clarity, and good practice. We’ll describe this ongoing process, as well as our environmental scan of GVSU’s liaison librarians—a series of conversations to evaluate their engagement and familiarity with scholarly communications issues and our services.

With each of these projects, we’re exploring how to understand and define success in an established institutional repository and scholarly communications program, not just how to sustain it and keep it going. We hope to catalyze a conversation about this, and about how our findings influence the ways we work with stakeholders and plan future programs and services.