2020-09-17 Meeting notes

Date

Sep 17, 2020

Participants

• @Kristina De Voe (Unlicensed)

• @Erin Finnerty

• @Rebecca Lloyd

• @Alicia Pucci (note taker)

• @Natalie Tagge (Unlicensed)

Agenda

1. Update on new objective for 2020-2021: "Engage in creative outreach about OA monographs among humanities scholars" (Kristina and Rebecca)

2. OA Week Events + Assessment

   1. Events planned so far:

      1. 10/20 @ 2:00 pm: “Predatory” Publishing: Addressing Bias and Avoiding Pitfalls

      2. 10/21 @ 12:00 pm: Getting Started with Open Science in the COVID-19 Era

      3. 10/22 @ 1:00 pm: Make Your Courses Affordable with Open Textbooks and Open Educational Resources (OERs)

   2. Questions:

      1. Do we want to do more? Conversation with Temple researchers about open?

      2. How should we best assess these events? (Metrics data, demographics, additional questions added to current evaluation form)

Notes

Update on new objective for 2020-2021: "Engage in creative outreach about OA monographs among humanities scholars" (Kristina and Rebecca)

• Kristina and Rebecca asked the humanities librarians to share information about the Oxford ebook collection and OA books with their faculty

• They drafted an e-blast and got permission from Brian to include how much the collection cost ($100k); they’re waiting to hear back from folks about any response

• It’s important to send messages out about collections like this (which is not something that has really been done before), and for humanities scholars to know this cost/ that money is being spent on them too

• Other communication ideas they’re considering:

  • Encourage faculty to incorporate these resources in their course materials for the spring

  • Reach out to departments as a whole to suggest specific resources/ tools for a specific discipline

  • Carry out targeted approaches to faculty to share specific resources on specific subject areas (e.g. folks teaching courses that cover U.S. American History)

• It’s important (especially now) to make it transparent to students that these books are expensive

• This sort of financial transparency is being done at other levels of the library, like with licensing and title costs for services like Kanopy, and ILL requests that include the article cost and alternative recommendations. These conversations are already happening at these lower levels, but ultimately we don’t know how many Temple folks really know about these costs. Our library climate for determining what collections we pursue is very different now, so we can start having more conversations like these

  • Pro - we encourage faculty to be mindful of the costs behind access

  • Con - these conversations can take up a lot of time if you have to prove numbers and rationale

OA Week Events + Assessment

• The Open Education group plans to ask Geneva to send out some tweets throughout the week that share TAP awardee videos

• Natalie said we had to contact Kaitlyn by September 14th to let her know if we were going to organize a panel discussion, but we’re past the deadline and it may be too difficult to pull one together right now

• The group agrees that the 3 workshop events are enough

• Potential idea - we can do a social media campaign that reuses previous faculty stories (20). They’re general enough that they’re not specific to that year

  • Reuse faculty posters that hung in Paley; need to locate the digital files for these

  • Should we reach out to these faculty to request their permission to share them widely?

  • Display these stories on screens throughout Charles?

  • Share them via Twitter/ Instagram/ Facebook?

  • We could also consider featuring Temple OA journal editors (do we have a list of these?)

• Assessment

  • We will use the pre-existing evaluation form that is sent to all attendees at the end of a workshop

    • Kaitlyn? or Olivia? can maybe share the feedback from this form

    • The Health Sciences workshops use REDCap, which works really well

  • If we want to add any OA-related questions, this can easily be done in LibCal by adding a second Google form link to the pre-existing form

    • We can share the second form link at the end of the workshop via Zoom chat - this works really well with the Health Sciences workshops

    • Or we can consider what we want to learn from/ about our attendees a bit further and use the Zoom polling feature (only the host has this capability) to collect real time feedback

  • Natalie’s co-presenters may plan on using other means of evaluation for their workshop, so we can consider adopting some of their methods

Action items