2020-04-02 Meeting notes

Mindful Minute

Kristina

Brainstorm and discussion of workshops

Alicia

• TU Deans/ Constituents of Research Directory

  • Started a contact sheet of all Deans from schools and colleges

  • RL-- CLA does have an Office of research. In addition to Dean of Research, there is also a robust office with staff. Should we be contacting the Dean or the office staff, more generally?

  • KD-- These other staff may be year round, rather than being tied to the Spring or Fall. Perhaps these conversations can take place in the Summer.

  • RL-- Should we wait for Annie to return?

  • NT-- Goal: Complete document by our next meeting (Thursday, April 16, 2020).

  • KD-- Include in a note (within the document) on the structure of the research office. Is it one faculty member or a full office?

• Archival workshop with Jasmine Clark, Stephanie Ramsey, and Josue Hurtado

  • RA + RL -- schedule a brief meeting with facilitators to get a conversation going.

• RL-- RL and Sarah Jones did copyright for graduate students workshop and had a few participations

• NT-- Facilitated a poster presentation workshop with 19 participants and also facilitated a workshop on creating case reports.

• KD-- We could do “Developing Your Scholarly Profile” or ’
‘Amplifying Your Research Impact” workshop online.

  • NT-- Do faculty have time to engage with professional development?

  • RL-- Faculty seem like they may be at full capacity. Perhaps online professional development may be doable (online) this summer now that faculty won’t be traveling.

  • KD-- Senses that faculty headspace may be opening up and online learning opportunities may be more welcome

  • NT-- If it does not take time to move online, we could consider moving a prepared workshop online.

  • KD-- I could move it online, and frame it around “That conference you were supposed to present at is cancelled. How to represent your work in our current context?”

    • LF will work with KD on this.

Current trends in relation to open access & COVID-19 pandemic
-Public Statement of Library Copyright Specialists: Fair Use & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research  https://tinyurl.com/tvnty3a  
- Copyright, & Library Superpowers (Part I): Fair Use and Exigent Circumstances , Part II.

Lauri

• Lots of conversation around fair use in Library Land

  • RL-- Internet Archive: well intentioned but poorly executed. Perhaps ignored copyright law. Librarians receiving a lot of requests from graduate students and faculty for resources that don’t have any substitutes. Hopeful that the Hathi Trust plan works out…

  • NT- Based on the legal counsel of institutions. For example, Harvard under the advice of Kyle Courtney has a more inclusive approach, whereas Temple University has a more conservative approach.

  • KD-- Went to Virtual Copyright Office Hours and left wondering which approaches could be applied at the various institutions, seeing as folks may be contending with vastly different contexts.

  • AP-- It does depend on the context. In the context of publishing open textbooks, we at NBP are strict. An example: publishing song lyrics to teach Spanish. These issues are coming to the forefront, but we have always dealt with them.

  • RL-- If digitized copies exist, it is a shame that there is no mechanism to buy licenses for these materials. However, this moment may make it easier to talk to faculty about why their publishing agreements matter so much.

  • KD-- Is there any information that we need to provide to our constituents?

--UN: missed some stuff, baby woke up from nap--

• LF-- PubMed just got a whole lot of publishers to add to the database.

• KD-- One thing this group could do, in conjunction with some folks in Collections, is prepare for conversations we will have to have with faculty when they lose access to materials made available for COVID-19. We can be proactive by offering alternatives.

  • NT-- As things go away, is there an easy place to see what we had during COVID-19? It might be difficult to know what folks had access to… We might also want to include some messaging.

  • KD-- Might be worthwhile to check in with Erin and Brian who certainly have a spreadsheet going.

  • NT-- People may not be that upset and will be understanding that we had access only for COVID-19. While we need to be prepared for questions, the average faculty member and student will understand. Perhaps this is Health Science specific.

• NT-- Should we communicate with Collections, who is likely already thinking about messaging, to ensure Scholarly Communications messaging is included too?

  • Make sure there is running list of materials being made available

  • Make sure there is standardized messaging

    • Make sure that the messaging includes scholarly communications messaging

  • KD: Pay attention to usage statistics Collections may be collecting and share it out with SCSST.