Scholarly Communication Coaching: Liaison Librarians' Shifting Roles

Authors

Todd Bruns, Eastern Illinois UniversityFollow
Steve Brantley, Eastern Illinois UniversityFollow
Kirstin Duffin, Eastern Illinois UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

January 2015

Abstract

Two and a half decades into the open access (OA) movement, rapid changes in scholarly communication are creating significant demands on scholars. Today’s scholars must wrestle with meeting funder mandates for providing public access to their research, managing and preserving raw data, establishing/publishing open access journals, understanding the difference between “green OA” and “gold OA,” navigating the complicated issues around copyright and intellectual property, avoiding potentially predatory publishers, adapting their tenure plans to OA, and discovering increasing amounts of OA resources for their research and their curricular materials. These demands present an opportunity and a need for librarians to step in and assist scholars with the scholarly communication process.

Comments

This chapter is from "The 21st Century Library: Partnerships and New Roles," published by Rowman and Littlefield/Scarecrow Press 2015.

Recommended Citation

Bruns, Todd; Brantley, Steve; and Duffin, Kirstin, "Scholarly Communication Coaching: Liaison Librarians' Shifting Roles" (2015). Faculty Research & Creative Activity. 136.
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/lib_fac/136

https://works.bepress.com/steve_brantley/22/download/