This Scholarly Communication toolkit was designed by ACRL’s Scholarly Communication Committee as a resource for education and advocacy efforts in transforming the scholarly communication landscape. Following nuanced and passionate discussions, we came to understand that the idea of bringing the full cycle of scholarly communication -- from discovery and creation of knowledge, to its dissemination, preservation, and re-use -- into all aspects of our work is central to the continued success of academic libraries. As information is increasingly captured, created, and communicated in digital forms, the activities of making scholarly resources well structured, discoverable, archived and readily available move closer to the creators of knowledge -- largely, faculty, students, and others within the academy. Understanding and influencing that shift is central to our goal. We believe these issues are key for our profession, and it is time for all librarians to fully own them.
Open Folklore–now being created by the American Folklore Society and the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries–is a new scholarly resource that will make a greater number and variety of useful resources, both published and unpublished, available for the field of folklore studies and the communities with which folklore scholars partner. Fister mentioned this.
The FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology is an ontology for recording and publishing on the Semantic Web bibliographic records of scholarly endeavours. It forms part of SPAR, a suite of Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies.
Several cutting-edge thinkers will prepare short opinion pieces on future trends/issues/developments that are likely to impact research, instruction, and scholarly communication. These essays will serve as the foundation for panel discussions between some of these thinkers, selected respondents, and attendees on emerging roles for libraries and librarians, particularly collections and technical services librarians. This symposium will build upon the themes developed in the ALCTS Symposium, “Living Digital.”