Eating your way to outreach

Scholarly Communication Lunch Series

University of California, San Diego

Susan Starr, AUL Sciences and Scholarly Communication

July 2006

Or…It’s Just Lunch!

Goal

Encourage faculty to become involved in changing methods of scholarly communication

Barriers, barriers, barriers

UC San Diego is … Large Dispersed Conservative Competitive Productive

Goal: Encourage faculty involvement

Objectives Raise awareness of scholarly

communication issues Build a core of knowledgeable faculty Reach the “thought leaders” Position Library in a leadership role

Action Plans

Bring in provocative speakers to attract listeners

Bring in faculty, since faculty listen to other faculty

Food is always good… Co sponsors will lend prestigeSo…. Let’s do a faculty lunch!

Menu planning

The Format Lunch time series Invited speakers Held at Faculty Club (not the Library) 5 lunches over 7 months Plenty of time (we hoped) for discussion

Menu planning

Topic Selection Consulted with our Library Committees Consulted with our colleagues Consulted with influential faculty and

administrators Advertising plan Handouts, giveaways, etc.

Lunch is served

Publish and/or Perish: Changes in Scholarly Communication

The Hor d’ouevre

Authorship & Attribution: Access & Attention: Trends in Scholarly Communication Blaise Cronin, Dean, School of Library

and Information Science, Indiana University

First plates

Electronic publication, changing the way you write Philip Bourne: Realizing the power of

online publishing Carl Stahmer: Scholarship in the Age of

Ephemerality: the A,V,C,D, and F’s of the Digital Humanities

First plates Electronic publication, changing the

way your work is disseminated and read Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President of

Alexander Street Press, "Libraries, Publishers, Authors - what's next?"

Lynne Withey, Director, University of California Press, "Digital Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Barriers and Opportunities"

Entree

Are we losing control? Scholarly publishing is a big business. Ted Bergstrom, Economics Professor,

UCSB. "Some Economics of Scholarly Publishing: To Have and Be Had?”

Dessert

Your copyright is worth something, don’t sign it away Michael Carroll, Villanova School of Law,

"Valuing and Managing Your Copyright in Scholarly Articles."

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234 participants 150 unique attendees

Average of 47 per session Average attendee came to 1.56 sessions

97 ladder rank professors

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Lessons Learned

Food works Good way to reach a core Faculty come to hear their peers

What next?

Involve our “thought leaders” Continue to co sponsor Focus on a single issue And remember….

It’s Just Lunch!