Research Productivity among Scholarly Communication Librarians

"This questionnaire is intended for librarians whose primary professional responsibilities are in scholarly communication: the system through which research and scholarship is created, evaluated, disseminated, and preserved through formal and informal channels. In the current library environment, specific responsibilities might include scholarly publishing, open access initiatives, library publishing, publication funding (i.e., subvention), institutional repositories, research data services, authors’ rights and/or copyright, impact metrics, digital scholarship, and others directly contributing to the scholarly information life cycle.

This study is exploratory. The purpose is to investigate the research and scholarly productivity of scholarly communication librarians (as defined above). Specifically, the investigators seek to understand the extent to which scholarly communication librarians produce research and scholarship, their motivations for doing so, the nature of that productivity, and the perceived impact of that activity on their professional responsibilities...."