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Scholarly Communication Assessment Forum

Summary

In 2019, Sacramento State University and San Jose State University were awarded an IMLS National Forum grant to assess scholarly communication programs at M1 Carnegie classified public institutions. With new technologies and paradigms for creating and sharing work, scholars across all fields have seen changes in research output, dissemination and preservation of the scholarly record, emergent publishing models, and the measurement of scholarly impact. Libraries have broadly defined their efforts to address these concerns as “scholarly communication” services. While many libraries have invested in personnel, software, and other resources to grow these programs, quantifying the actual outcome or impact of these activities remains elusive, beyond output measures such as simple counts of consultations, workshop attendance, or by repository downloads or growth. This grant, the “Scholarly Communication Assessment Forum,” or “SCAF” investigated best practices and make recommendations for better tracking academic libraries’ engagement in supporting the research lifecycle.

View the full proposal: https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/grants/lg-35-19-0066-19/proposals/lg-35-19-0066-19-full-proposal.pdf

Deliverables

Whitepaper

Assessment Rubric

Engagement Matrix

Events

Staff

Principal Investigators

  • Suzanna (Conrad) Yaukey, Dean of University Libraries, Towson University
  • Nicole Lawson, Associate Dean for Academic Services, Sacramento State University Library
  • Emily Chan, Associate Dean, Research & Scholarship, San Jose State University Library

Consultants

  • Dr. Lili Luo, Professor, San Jose State University, School of Information

Key Staff

  • Yvonne Harris, Associate Vice President for Research, Innovation and Economic Development at Sacramento State
  • Kelly Mihelich, Administrative Support Coordinator, Sacramento State
  • Daina Dickman, Assistant Director, Network of the National Library of Medicine Region 5

SCAF Forum, May 4 & 5, 2020

Scholarly communication practitioners and campus stakeholders, as well as library assessment experts convened online to present and discuss best practice and strategies for assessing scholarly communication services at M1 institutions.

Agenda

  • Monday, May 4, 2020: 8:00am-3:00pm
  • Tuesday, May 5, 2020: 8:00am-3:00pm

Topics included:

  • Mapping scholarly communication programs to library, campus and consortial strategic plans
  • Going beyond impact factor
  • Measuring library “embeddedness” in the institution
  • Integrating scholarly communication services in instruction & the campus curriculum
  • Celebrating faculty scholarship through marketing
  • Being purposeful with metrics and scholarly communication
  • Funding scholarly communication including grant funding, APCs, OA costs
  • Multifaced assessment for scholarly communication
  • Measuring the intangibles of scholarly communication such as word of mouth, success of outreach, engagement, and logging of anecdotal stories and evidence

Location: Online via Zoom

This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (LG-35-19-0066-19).

Graphics for the agenda and logo were developed by Lauren White.