[As of 2/7/18]
Education/Outreach
Name: Open Access Week
Category: Education/Outreach
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Open Temple Working Group*, LRS, HSL
Time Period: Every October
Description: A yearly global celebration to raise awareness about open access, open data, and open education.
Name: Fair Use Week
Category: Education/Outreach
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Open Temple Working Group*, LRS
Time Period: Every February
Description: A yearly celebration to raise awareness about the importance of fair use.
Name: Open Education Week
Category: Education/Outreach
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Open Temple Working Group*, LRS
Time Period: Every March
Description: A yearly celebration to raise awareness about open education.
Name: Open Access Library Guide
Category: Education/Outreach
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Science and Engineering Librarian, Scholarly Communication Specialist
Time Period: Ongoing
Description: A standard LibGuide.
Name: Open Access in Health Information Library Guide (HSL)
Category: Education/Outreach
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Biomedical and Research Services Librarian
Time Period: Ongoing
Description: A standard LibGuide.
Category: Scholarly Communication @ Temple blog
Category: Education/Outreach
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Scholarly Communication Specialist
Time Period: Ongoing
Description: A blog that features posts about topics in scholarly communication. Often includes guest posts from TU Press staff, HSL staff, and others.
Name: Scholarly Communication Workshops and Events
Category: Education/Outreach
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: SCSST, HSL, LRS
Time Period: Ongoing
Description: See Appendix 1 for a listing of previous and upcoming workshops given by the Libraries. See Appendix 3 for a listing of previous and upcoming workshops given by other groups within the university.
Name: Scholarly Communication Instruction Sessions
Category: Education/Outreach
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: LRS, DSC, HSL
Time Period: Ongoing
Description: See Appendix 2 for a list of topics related to scholarly communication that librarians and library staff have covered during instruction sessions for undergraduate and graduate students.
*This group has been replaced by the Scholarly Communication Strategic Steering Team.
Services
Name: Open Access Publishing Fund
Category: Service
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Executive Director of Press, Scholarly Communication Specialist, Collections, HSL
Time Period: Ongoing
Description: Provides funds to faculty and graduate students who want to publish their work in an OA journal but do not have the money to cover the article processing charge.
Name: Textbook Affordability Project
Category: Service
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Associate University Librarian, Scholarly Communication Specialist
Time Period: Ongoing
Description: Provides funds to faculty who want to get rid of their commercial textbook and use open educational resources or library-licensed content instead.
Name: Library Publishing
Category: Service
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Executive Director of Press, Scholarly Communication Specialist
Time Period: Ongoing
Description: Assist faculty and students who want to start an open access journal using OJS.
Technology
Name: Open Journal Systems
Category: Technology
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: LTD, Scholarly Communication Specialist, Executive Director of Press
Time Period: Ongoing
Description: Support and maintenance for OJS software.
Name: Scalar
Category: Technology
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: LTD, DSC
Time Period: Ongoing
Description: Support and maintenance for Scalar platform.
Name: Omeka
Category: Technology
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: LTD, DSC, Special Collections
Time Period: Ongoing
Description: Support and maintenance for Omeka platform.
Name: CONTENTdm
Category: Technology
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: DLI, Special Collections
Time Period: Ongoing
Description: Support and maintenance for CONTENTdm, which includes ETDs, undergraduate scholarship, and Press ebooks.
Name: Symplectic Elements
Category: Technology
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: RIM Library Group
Time Period: Ongoing
Description: The Team is currently charged with developing in-depth expertise in the Symplectic Elements platform, a Research Information Management System. It will explore possible workflows to support Schools and Colleges as they implement Elements.
Name: Institutional Repository
Category: Service/Technology
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: SCSST, DSSST, LTD
Time Period: Spring 2018
Description: A repository for scholarly publications, data, and other content. Connected to Symplectic Elements project.
Appendix 1: Library Workshops for Faculty, Students, and Staff
Faculty and Students
Managing Your Sources (2016/2017)
Measuring Your Research Impact (2016/2017)
Amplifying Research Impact (2016/2017)
Developing Your Scholarly Profile (2016/2017)
Introduction to Open Access (HSL) (2015)
Managing Your References with Endnote (2016) (HSL)
Managing Your References with Mendeley (2016) (HSL)
Refworks: Citations and Bibliographies Made Easy! (2016) (HSL)
Introduction to Humanities Commons (2017)
Predatory Publishing (2017)
Predatory Publishing and Biomedicine (HSL) (2017)
Publishing Your Dissertation (2017)
Understanding Fair Use (2017)
Removing Barriers, Increasing Access (HSL) (2017)
Open In Order to Change the World: How TU Libraries Are Helping to Democratize Access to Information (2017)
Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Publishing (2016)
Using Open Textbooks in the Classroom (2017)
Choosing a Journal (HSL) (2017)
Finding the right journal for your research (HSL) (2017)
Scholarly Communication for Anesthesiology Residents (HSL) (2017)
Research Impact Series (2018)
Pod Save the Academy: The Ins and Outs of Sharing Your Research via Podcasting (2018)
Copyright and the Dissertation (2018)
Using Open Textbooks in the Classroom (2018)
Measuring Research Impact (HSL) (2018)
Refworks (2018) (HSL)
Troubleshooting Citation Managers (2018) (HSL)
An Overview of Systematic Review Tools (2018) (HSL)
Libraries Staff
Introduction to OER (2016)
An Introduction to Open Access & OER (2016) (HSL) Staff/Annie & Stephanie
An Overview of Citation Managers (2016) (HSL) Stephanie & Natalie
ETDs (2017)
Predatory Publishing (2017)
Scholarly Book Publishing in a Digital Age (2017)
Appendix 2: Instruction Topics Currently Covered by Library Staff
Author rights
Citation managers
Copyright, fair use, public domain, and/or Creative Commons
Digital publishing (e.g. Omeka, Scalar, etc.)
Funder mandates and/or policies
Identifying publishing venues
Locating and researching faculty member's own publications for the promotion and tenure process (e.g. evaluating journals, journal impact factors, citation analysis and/or cited reference searching)
Open access
Open educational resources
Predatory publishers
Self-archiving (e.g. depositing work in a disciplinary repository)
Systematic reviews
Scholarly profiles (e.g. ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.)
Appendix 3: University-Sponsored Workshops for Faculty and Students
The Academic Job Market: An Ecological Introduction (2016) (CHAT)
Digital Scholarship and Humanities Professions (2016) (CHAT)
Promoting Your Career Through Online Social Media Presence (2016) (CHAT)
Exploring Diverse Forms of the Dissertation (2017) (CHAT)
From Graduate Student to Public Professor (2017) (CHAT)
Navigating Your First Academic/Research Position (2017) (CHAT)
Communicating Beyond the Ivory Tower (2018) (College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Professional Development Series)
Grant Writing Basics (2018) (College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Professional Development Series)