Event Title
Location
Thad Cochran Center 218
Presentation Type
Keynote Address
Start Date
26-4-2018 2:10 PM
Description
In the evolving landscape of scholarly communication, librarians not only spend countless hours educating researchers about copyright, subscription licensing, classroom use, author’s agreements, and open access, but they also pay enormous subscription fees to publishers. This is potentially the reality of a system in flux, the fact of being in the middle of a change: we work for reform and enforce the current system in the same breath. Librarians tend to be risk averse, and rightly so, but this caution should not mean that librarians are pacifiers instead of change agents, that we educate while accepting publisher’s models without question or action.
Working Against Ourselves, Working Together
Thad Cochran Center 218
In the evolving landscape of scholarly communication, librarians not only spend countless hours educating researchers about copyright, subscription licensing, classroom use, author’s agreements, and open access, but they also pay enormous subscription fees to publishers. This is potentially the reality of a system in flux, the fact of being in the middle of a change: we work for reform and enforce the current system in the same breath. Librarians tend to be risk averse, and rightly so, but this caution should not mean that librarians are pacifiers instead of change agents, that we educate while accepting publisher’s models without question or action.
Comments
Leila Sterman is the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. She is a graduate of Pratt Institute and Skidmore College.
Sterman runs an APC fund, an institutional repository, is the copyright expert at her university, publishes three OA journals on Open Journal Systems, and works to help researchers better communicate their findings, especially to the public. Her current research focuses on the trust that people put into printed academic literature and the ways that trust have transferred to the digital world in the hopes that by understanding those motivations she can help build trust in digital, open, tools and resources.