Why Universities Need Scholarly-Communications Experts - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Summary:

"In an effort to take advantage of the opportunities of the digital age and reverse or at least mitigate the more troubling trends in scholarly publishing, some leading research universities, including the University of California at Berkeley and at Davis, Duke and Harvard Universities, and the University of Toronto, have hired scholarly-communications experts. While these professionals’ assistance in shaping institutional information policies has been invaluable, even more significant is the role that they can play in achieving bottom-up changes in the culture of scholarly communications.

They can help faculty members, students, and other researchers become more knowledgeable about managing their copyrights and publishing contracts, understanding what they can and can’t do with the work of others, and complying with federal or grant mandates about enabling public access to research and data."

Link:

http://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Universities-Need-/238630/?key=tZ1LWdA_bVNIm62Zk-gE3OfbIGDGxUjxmmYMhpF6nMwoYqEgOpeHD-iWzXfbZddcdnJ5dnU3eDNKelA4bFV0UnFucndkRXN1WUlfSTFKZ2NoMHB0TldlOUk4aw

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Date tagged:

12/12/2016, 15:38

Date published:

12/12/2016, 10:38