Scholarly Communication Inventory
Last updated 9/29/20
Below is an inventory of scholarly communication outreach, workshops, and initiatives that have taken place at Temple University over the past several years. The list started as part of an environmental scan the SCSST did when the group first started in fall 2017.
Education/Outreach
Name: Open Access Week
Category: Education/Outreach
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: SCSST, Open Education Subgroup, 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: SCSST, 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: SCSST, Open Education Subgroup, 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, Assistant Director for Open Publishing Initiatives
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: Assistant Director for Open Publishing Initiatives, SCSST
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: SCSST, 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.
Services
Name: Open Access Publishing Fund
Category: Service
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: Executive Director of Press, Assistant Director for Open Publishing Initiatives, 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: Open Education Subgroup
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, Assistant Director for Open Publishing Initiatives, Scholarly Communications Assistant
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, Assistant Director for Open Publishing Initiatives, 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: TUScholarShare
Category: Service/Technology
Unit/Department/Persons Involved: SCSST, DSSST, LTD, Assistant Director for Open Publishing Initiatives, Scholarly Communications Assistant
Time Period: Ongoing
Description: An institutional 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
| Workshop Title | FY 2015-16 | FY 2016-17 | FY 2017-18 | FY 2018-19 | FY 2019-20 | FY 2020-21 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amplifying Research Impact | |  (2x) | | |||
| An Overview of Systematic Review Tools (HSL) | | |||||
| Best Practices & Tools for Creating Slide Decks (HSL |  | |||||
| Best Practices for Creating Poster Presentations (HSL) | |
| | |||
| Can I Use That Photo? | | |||||
| Citation Managers for Research Teams (HSL) | | |||||
| Copyright and the Dissertation (2018) | ||||||
| Copyright Basics for Grad Students | | | | |||
| Developing Your Scholarly Profile | | | (2x) | | ||
| Finding the right journal for your research (HSL) (2017) | ||||||
| How to Write and Publish a Case Report (HSL) | | | | |||
| Integrating Library Resources into Canvas: A Faculty-focused Session (HSL) | | |||||
| Integrating Open Access Resources into your Canvas Course | | |||||
| Introduction to Humanities Commons | | |||||
| Introduction to Open Access (HSL) (2015) | ||||||
| Introduction to the Open Science Framework (OSF) | (2x) | |||||
| Know Your Copyright: Sharing Your Research | | |||||
| Learn About Open Textbooks | | |||||
| Managing Your References with Endnote (HSL) | | | | | ||
| Managing Your References with Mendeley (HSL) | | | | | ||
| Managing Your Research - EndNote Basic (HSL) | | |||||
| Managing Your Research - Mendeley & Zotero (HSL) | | |||||
| Managing Your Research - RefWorks (HSL) | | | ||||
| Managing Your Sources | | | (2x) | | ||
| Measuring Research Impact (HSL) (2018) | | | | |||
| Measuring Your Research Impact | | | (2x) | | ||
| Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Publishing (faculty panel discussion) | | |||||
| Open In Order to Change the World: How TU Libraries Are Helping to Democratize Access to Information | | |||||
| Open Science Framework (OSF) | | |||||
| Overview of Systematic Review Tools (HSL) | | (2x) | | |||
| Pod Save the Academy: The Ins and Outs of Sharing Your Research via Podcasting | | |||||
| Predatory Publishing | (2x) | |||||
| Predatory Publishing and Biomedicine (HSL) | | |||||
| Predatory Publishing in Podiatry (HSL) | | |||||
| Preregistration with Open Science Framework (HSL) | (2x) | | ||||
| Publication Reputation: Publishing in Legitimate Journals (HSL) | | |||||
| Publishing During a Pandemic: Avoiding Predatory Publishers (HSL) | | |||||
| Publishing Your Dissertation | | |||||
| Refworks: Citations and Bibliographies Made Easy! (HSL) | | | ||||
| Removing Barriers, Increasing Access (HSL) | | |||||
| Saving Your Students Money: The Textbook Affordability Project | | |||||
| Scholarly Communication for Anesthesiology Residents (HSL) | | | | | ||
| Systematic Reviews (HSL) | | (3x) | | | | |
| Systematic Reviews | | |||||
| Troubleshooting Citation Managers (HSL) | | |||||
| Understanding Fair Use (2017) | ||||||
| Using Open Textbooks in the Classroom | (2x) | | | |||
| Which Citation Manager is Right for You? | | |||||
| Which Review Is Right for You? | | | ||||
| Write a Winning Conference Proposal (HSL) | | | ||||
Developing & Growing Your Online Scholarly Profile During Uncertain Times | | |||||
How to Increase Your Research Impact with TUScholarShare | | |||||
“Predatory” Publishing: Addressing Bias and Avoiding Pitfalls | | |||||
Getting Started with Open Science in the COVID-19 Era | | |||||
Make Your Courses Affordable with Open Textbooks and Open Educational Resources (OERs) | | |||||
What's the Big Deal About Preprints? | |
Libraries Staff
Introduction to OER (2016)
An Introduction to Open Access & OER (2016) (HSL staff)
An Overview of Citation Managers (2016) (HSL staff)
Research Impact Workshops: Overview & Conversation (Summer 2016)
Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETDs) (Summer 2017)
Predatory Publishing: What Librarians Need to Know (Summer 2017)
Scholarly Book Publishing in a Digital Age (Summer 2017)
Demystifying Systematic Reviews for Librarians (Fall 2017)
Scholarly Profiles and Research Impact (Summer 2018)
Talking With Faculty About OER (Spring 2019)
TUScholarShare 101 (Summer 2020)
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)
Taking Research Public: Tips for Writing Effective Op-Eds (2020) (College of Liberal Arts Public Policy Lab Professional Development Series)