Scholarly Communication at ALA Annual 2013

ALA Annual is fast approaching! No doubt, Chicago is on your radar, but have you had time to investigate the offerings about scholarly communication and open access? Never fear! OANow is here!

The not so fine print: We didn’t include pre-conferences, vendor events, closed sessions, or author events. Conference coordinators lead complicated lives, so room numbers, times, etc. are subject to change. Please use the ALA conference website and the ALA Conference Scheduler to double check event details. All times are CDT.

Because we’re human, this list may not be all inclusive. If you know about an event that should be on this list, please use the comments to let us know. We’ll do our best to add events we inadvertently forgot.

Finally, don’t forget to be a good customer and let our vendors and publishers know what we think about their OA author-side fees, embargoes, etc. You can find your favorites and not-so-favorites on ALA’s Exhibitor List.

Friday, June 28, 2013

3:30 – 5:30pm Office of Information Technology Policy (OITP) Copyright Subcommittee Meeting I McCormick Place Convention Center, S504-bc Committee meeting

4:30 – 5:30pm Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) Meeting Gray Seminar Room; Lurie, Feinberg School of Medicine 303 Superior St., Chicago, IL The primary order of business will be discussion of the COAPI processes and procedures document.

Saturday, June 29, 2013

8:30 – 10:30am ACRL Science & Technology Section (STS) Scholarly Communication Committee Meeting Hyatt Regency Chicago, Grand E Committee meeting

8:30 – 10:00am Data, E-Data, Data Curation: Our New Frontier McCormick Place Convention Center, S501 bcd Data management and curation may be a great new opportunity, but how are libraries tackling it? We already know how to archive traditional materials, but what do we do with terabytes of faculty research data? How do we manage that data set for our students’ research? Join us for a big picture view of the issues surrounding e-data collection and access. With Abigail Goben, Sarah Sheehan, Dorothea Salo, James Mullins, Joan Starr, and Robert Sandusky.

8:30 – 10:00am The Research Footprint: Libraries Tracking and Enhancing Scholarly and Scientific Impact McCormick Place Convention Center, N427bc Increasingly, libraries are building services designed to assess and improve the impact of their institutions’ research activities. This is an increasingly important but complex task, as more and more scholarship is digitally shared and accessed through traditional and non-traditional pathways. This program will offer knowledge about the data and expertise libraries are using to track and enhance research dissemination and library programs built upon this data and expertise. With Cathy Sarli, Jason Priem, Kristi Holmes, and Rush G. Miller.

10:30 – 11:30am ACRL Copyright Discussion Group McCormick Place Convention Center, S402b The ACRL Copyright Discussion Group reviews and discusses legislative, judicial, and regulatory developments related to copyright and libraries in higher education.

10:30am – 12:00pm Poster Session – Open Folklore: Improving Open Access McCormick Place Convention Center, Hall A, Exhibit Floor

1:00 – 2:30pm Copyright in a Non-Book Media: A Primer in Art, Music, and Film McCormick Place Convention Center, S402a Librarians and copyright experts will discuss the complexities of the copyright law as applied to music, film, and other non-print formats. With Eric Harbeson, Laura Quilter, and Tom Lipinski.

1:00 – 2:30pm Literary Texts and the Library in the Digital Age: New Collaborations for European and American Studies McCormick Place Convention Center, S105d Digital technologies are opening up new possibilities for the investigation of literary and history texts. They are also changing library spaces and reconfiguring relationships between librarians and researchers. This program investigates new roles for European and American Studies librarians in this emerging physical and virtual environment. What old skills remain relevant and what new skills are needed? What new forms of collaboration are developing between librarians, scholars, and IT personnel? With Patricia Thurston, Glen Worthey, Laura Mandell, and Paula Kaufman.

1:00 – 2:30pm Preparing, Sharing, and Archiving: What Scholars in Political Science and Law Need to Know and How Librarians Can Help Them McCormick Place Convention Center, N427d Scholarly communication is in flux. While new publishing models are appearing and ground breaking legislation and court cases signal far reaching changes to the dissemination of research, university faculty are grappling with questions about copyright, author’s rights, and open access. Join us for a discussion with a panel of influential and active professionals engaged in the work of scholarly communications. Discover what political science and law scholars at your university need to know and how librarians can help them navigate the various choices open to them.

1:00 – 2:30pm ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group McCormick Place Convention Center, N128 ORCID: Facilitating Interoperability for Research Universities and The Library Publishing Coalition Project: Building Capacity for an Emerging Area of Library Service Provision.

1:00 – 2:30pm Success Stories and Challenges: How Librarians are Employing Fair Use with their Code McCormick Place Convention Center, N427a Creators of the ARL Fair Use Code describe the achievements and challenges of employing the ARL code, including innovative ways that librarians have implemented the code, common reactions and obstacles, and the latest legislation. Next, the workshop examines the educational use of images, including the VRA Fair Use Statement and a Code being developed by the College Art Association on image use in scholarly publications and on the creation and exhibition of new artistic works. With Robin Leach, Brandon Butler, and Kevin Smith.

3:00 – 4:00pm ACRL/SPARC Forum - Understanding the Implications of Open Education: MOOCs and More Hyatt Regency Chicago, Grand A The open access movement has focused on making scholarship freely available, expanding distribution while lowering barriers for re-use. The open educational resources movement has focused on making teaching and learning materials freely accessible and openly licensed. The skyrocketing rise in the popularity of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) has put this trend squarely on the front burner, bringing openness to pedagogy in a way not previously experienced in higher education – and expanding free distribution of a university course to tens of thousands of students around the globe. This convergence holds great promise for open education, and also raises questions on what the future might look like. A panel of experts will explore the recent developments and policy implications of open education, the rise of open resources, and the potential impacts of this trend on libraries and higher education. They will also discuss both the promise and potential pitfalls of MOOCs and OER as part of open education.

3:00 – 4:00pm EBSS Research Forum Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Field 20A-C Three presentations, one of which is entitled Faculty Research & Publication Practices This qualitative study examines how select faculty in education, and health and behavioral sciences, locate, retrieve and use information resources for research and writing and how they publish and store their publications. Results provide useful information that will aid the library in providing informed support for faculty scholarship. By Kate Zoellner, Samantha Hines, Teressa Keenan, and Sue Samson.

4:30 – 5:30pm Committee on Legislation (COL) Copyright Subcommittee Meeting McCormick Place Convention Center, N136 Committee meeting

4:30 – 5:30pm Multiple Identities: Managing Authorities in Repositories and Digital Collections McCormick Place Convention Center, S402a This program will discuss existing implementations of authority control in repositories and digital collections. Presenters will demonstrate current working models and workflows of controlled access points outside of traditional cataloging systems, potentially including linked data schemes and research I.D. registries. With Banurekha Lakshminarayanan, Davit T. Palmer, Donald A. Brower, and Natalie K. Meyers.

Sunday, June 30, 2013

8:30 – 11:30am ACRL Research and Scholarly Environment (formerly Scholarly Communication) Committee Meeting Hyatt Regency Chicago, Soldier Field Committee meeting

8:30 – 10:00am Sustainable Models of Open Access Publishing McCormick Place Convention Center, N139 Join the College and Research Libraries Interest Group for a panel discussion on sustainable models of open access publishing and what those models mean for libraries and faculty. With Ann Okerson, David Crotty, Matt Straiges, and Jonathan Nabe.

10:30 – 11:30am Office of Information Technology Policy (OITP) Copyright Subcommittee Meeting II Hilton Chicago, PDR 1 Committee meeting

10:30am – 12:00pm Poster Session – The Green Road of Open Access in Africa, Europe and North America: Differences in Rhetoric and their Implications for the OA Movement McCormick Place Convention Center, Hall A, Exhibit Floor

2:30 – 4:00pm Poster Session – Connecting the Dots: Defining Scholarly Services in a Research Lifecycle Model McCormick Place Convention Center, Hall A, Exhibit Floor

2:30 – 4:00pm Poster Session – Marketing an Established Institutional Repository McCormick Place Convention Center, Hall A, Exhibit Floor

3:00 – 4:00pm ACRL Scholarly Communication Discussion Group McCormick Place Convention Center, N127 The Scholarly Communication Discussion Group is an informal and in-depth discussion of one or more of the topics highlighted in the ACRL-SPARC Forum on Saturday afternoon. With Scott Lapinski.

4:30 – 5:30pm ACRL Digital Humanities Discussion Group McCormick Place Convention Center, N227a The Digital Humanities Discussion Group will cover DH space in libraries; DH and data management; DH training for librarians; and the demographics of DH librarians.

4:30 – 5:30pm Office of Information Technology Policy (OITP) Copyright Subcommittee Meeting III – CopyNight McCormick Place Convention Center, S504d Committee meeting

Monday, July 1, 2013

8:30 – 10:00am International Perspectives on Open Access and Scholarly Communication McCormick Place Convention Center, S402a Presenters with North American, South American, European, and Asian perspectives will discuss open access and scholarly publishing from a librarian, scholar, and publisher’s point of view. From the Open Access (OA) models of Latin America to an international publisher’s assessment of the economics of OA to understanding authors’ considerations for submitting works to and perceptions of OA journals, this program will cover an extensive array of OA issues from across the globe.

10:30 – 11:30am Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – The future of learning? McCormick Place Convention Center, S404bc MOOCs (massive open online courses) have taken the education world by storm recently with numerous colleges and universities offering a wide variety of learning opportunities for no cost online. In fact, the New York Times called 2012 the “Year of the MOOC.” These “open source” courses usually earn no credit, but allow students of different age levels and expertise to pursue personal interests through interactive learning across distance. This session will share examples of MOOCs, advantages and disadvantages, alongside the potential for global education at all levels and the impact on libraries in the future.

10:30 – 11:30am Print Principles in a Digital World: Intellectual Freedom in the 21st Century Academic Library McCormick Place Convention Center, S402a The panelists will explore the impact of the continuing digital revolution on academic libraries and their users. What will be the implications for scholars when almost all information is born digital and no paper copies exist – when libraries no longer buy anything physical other than paper towels and soap? Issues will include the implications of licensed access and external storage versus outright purchase for the availability, preservation and reliability of data and researcher privacy. With J. Douglas Archer and Martin Garnar.

4:00 – 4:45pm Altmetrics, the Decoupled Journal, and the Future of Scholarly Publishing McCormick Place Convention Center, S102d In growing numbers, scholars are moving their workflows online. As that happens, important, once-invisible parts of the scientific process – conversations, arguments, recommendations, reads, bookmarks, and more – are leaving online traces. Mining these traces or “altmetrics” can give us faster, more diverse, and more accurate data of scholarly impact. What is more, this information could inform powerful, network-aware filters that supplement and even replace the increasingly overwhelmed peer-review system. We’ll discuss the current research and practice of altmetrics, as well as their long-term implications: the potential to power a fast, open, and truly web-native scholarly communication ecosystem.

And finally, two events where you will be encouraged to discuss scholarly communication topics of importance to you. At unconferences and camps, content is decided upon by the participants. So consider attending and sharing information about copyright, open access, digital humanities, academic publishing, altmetrics, or your favorite scholarly communication topic.

Friday, June 28, 9:00am – 12:00pm Annual Unconference McCormick Place Convention Center, S104a

Monday, July 1, 1:00pm – 3:00pm Annual Library Camp McCormick Place Convention Center, N226

We hope you have a fun, productive, and engaging time at ALA Annual!