Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications
Creating a More Inclusive Future
Association of College and Research Libraries author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Association of College & Research Libraries
Published:30th Jun '19
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Prepared by Nancy Maron and Rebecca Kennison with Paul Bracke, Nathan Hall, Isaac Gilman, Kara Malenfant, Charlotte Roh, and Yasmeen Shorish
For many years, the academic and research library workforce has worked to accelerate the transition to more open, inclusive, and equitable systems of scholarship. Enacting change in the scholarly communications environment is complicated by a broad range of issues that need to be addressed: the challenges of the global digital divide and information inequality, decolonization, democratization, the politics of technology, privilege (or lack thereof), the public or common good, unbiased policymaking, etc.
Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications is an action-oriented research agenda designed to provide practical, actionable information for academic librarians; include the perspectives of historically underrepresented communities in order to expand the profession’s understanding of research environments and scholarly communication systems; and point librarians and other scholars toward important research questions to investigate.
Organized into three major priority areas—People, Content, and Systems—each area includes actions that can be taken now and ideas for further research:
- Embracing Diversity and Inclusion
- Improving the Working Lives of People Engaged in Scholarly Communications
- Increasing Awareness Concerning Creators’ Rights
- Considering How Value is Assigned to Scholarly Materials
- Creating More Representative and Open Collections
- Supporting Sustainable Technological Infrastructure
- Creating Systems That Permit More Access to More People
- Building Mission-Aligned Organizational and Financial Systems
- Advancing Innovation in Academic Libraries
ISBN: 9780838946237
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148 pages