Exploring new opportunities in publishing and scholarly communication.

Blockson

• Begin two year grant project that will produce a graphic novel highlighting resources in the Blockson Collection.
• Work on Wikipedia Project.
• Complete The Virtual Blockson (Digital Humanities Project).

Health Sciences Libraries

• Continue engagement of Podiatry librarians with faculty and students to establish deeper integration into the curriculum.
• Create a series of graduate student workshops focusing on skills for scholarship.
• Create best practice and guidelines document for the creation of LibGuides for the health professional schools.
• Develop data services program under the leadership of the new Research and Data Services Librarian.

Learning & Research Services - Arts, Humanities & Media

All AHM librarians will achieve at least one scholarly communication competency. 

Learning & Research Services - Business, Social Sciences & Education

Each librarian will select one competency from The Scholarly communication Skill Areas and pursue one action item to develop it

Learning and Research Services - Science, Technology, Engineering & Biomedicine

• As the Faculty Profile Builder moves to new colleges liaisons for those colleges will work with with the Research Information Management/SE team and college administration
• Each librarian will select one competency from the Scholarly Communication Competencies

Library Technology & Development - Developers

• OJS Upgrade - Upgrade and migrate to OJS3
• Refactor Tupress - continue enhancements to new TUPress website

Library & Technology Development - Digital Scholarship Center

• Manage Omeka sites - Continue to manage and provide access the Omeka publishing platform. Explore potential for upgrade and migration to next multi-tenant version.
• Manage Scalar - Continue to manage and provide access the Scalar publishing platform

Library Technology & Development - Metadata & Digitization Services *

• Improve exposure and discovery of TU Press publications by participating in the Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication program and creating original descriptions for these resources.
• Improve exposure and discovery of North Broad Press open access electronic publications by creating original descriptions for these resources and contributing them to WorldCat.
• Improve exposure of TU scholarly output by continuing to provide metadata expertise in the Institutional Repository and Symplectic Elements projects.
• Work with Scholarly Communications staff at TULUP to migrate electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from our digital collections platform to our institutional repository platform, improve ETD metadata, and synchronize ETD metadata between DSpace, Alma, and WorldCat.

Library Technology & Development - Project Coordination

• Institutional Repository - continue implementation of Institutional Repository, and configure data workflows for ETD's, faculty self-ingested binaries (S.Elements), and Library staff administered ingest (data sets)
• Open Journal Platform upgrade - Upgrade and migrate to OJS3
• TUpress website enhancement releases - continue enhancements to new TUPress website
• Faculty Profile Builder - continue new school onboarding, configuration, and harvest processes in S. Elements.

Outreach & Communication*

• We will work with the Research Data Services and Scholarly Communication Strategic Steering Teams on their workshops and offerings.
• We will also work with Annie Johnson and the Press on the Labor events for the NEH grant.

Press

• The Press is one of 10 publishers/associations/departments awarded the opportunity to participate in the Manifold Digital Services Pilot Program (https://manifoldapp.org/).)
• Launch launch five to eight books from our previous American Literatures Initiatives project on the Manifold platform and explore opportunities for its use for additional titles/titles with electronic enhancements in the future.
• Expand North Broad Press outreach in support of university-related publishing and open access and create policies and procedures.
• Publish one OA textbook.

Research Data Services

• RDS SST will promote and support datasets generated by or used in the research process and datasets used for pedagogical purposes by Identifying external repositories and frameworks such as OSF, and developing expertise in their use.
• RDS SST will promote and support datasets generated by or used in the research process and datasets used for pedagogical purposes. We will work to improve discovery of datasets by establishing an Institutional Repository for data dissemination and preservation. (RDS SST; SC SST; LTS)

Scholarly Communication

Assess current Libraries' investments related to open content and open technologies; work with Dean of Libraries and other groups, such as the Collections Strategy Steering Team, to review this data and make a plan for the future.