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The Role of the Librarian in an Open Access World

• Ellen Finnie Duranceau
• Scholarly Publishing Licensing Consultant
• MIT Libraries
• BioMed Central
• Consultation Workshop 5/21/07

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MIT Librarians Open Access Outline

• Context and Mission
• The view from 3,000 feet
• New activities
• New positions
• Implications

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MIT Context Culture of Openness

• Commitment to generating, disseminating, and
  preserving knowledge, and to working with others
  to bring this knowledge to bear on the world's
  great challenges.
• Mission directly related to widest dissemination
• Expressions of this culture
• OpenCourseWare
• Dspace
• W3C
• Free Software Movement

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MIT Libraries MissionEvolution with Open Access

• 1999 The MIT Libraries are creative partners in
  the research and learning process. We select,
  organize, present, and preserve information
  resources relevant to education and research at
  MIT. We sustain these world-class resources and
  provide quality services . We build intellectual
  connections among these resources and educate the
  MIT community in the effective use of
  information. We want to be the place people in
  the MIT community think of first when they need
  information.

• Current (2003) The mission of the MIT libraries
  is to create and sustain an intuitive, trusted
  information environment that enables learning and
  the advancement of knowledge at MIT. We are
  committed to developing strategies and systems
  that promote discovery and facilitate worldwide
  scholarly communication.

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Key Changes In How We Describe Mission

• Creating and sustaining a trusted information
  environment
• Developing strategies and systems that
• promote discovery
• facilitate worldwide scholarly communication
• Consistent with OA world

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New Activities
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Facilitate Worldwide Scholarly Communication
IRs, Hosting Content

• Institutional repository Dspace
• Beginning of shift from libraries purchasing
  content toward libraries offering their
  institutions content to the world
• Efforts in development, marketing, metadata,
  workflows
• Hosting content
• Supporting publication/archiving of open access
  journal within libraries partnership with
  faculty
• Exploring archiving partnership with university
  press
• Preprint site partnership with faculty
• Creating and managing digital collections

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Facilitate Worldwide Scholarly Communication
Authors rights

• New support for authors in relation to rights
• Publishing choices
• Publishing agreements
• Posting to optimize citation, dissemination
• Partner with intellectual property counsel,
  intellectual property committee
• Partner with sponsored research (funder
  requirements)

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Facilitate Worldwide Scholarly Communication
Influencing Purchasing Business Models

• No single model to support in near term variety
  of roles
• Maintaining advocacy for Fair Use principles
  push back on DRM, restrictive licenses and
  purchase models
• Exploring value based pricing
• License negotiation and standards
• SERU / NISO
• Support/initiate dialog with campus
  administration
• Analysis of business/cost models in OA arena
• Partnering with administration
• Funder requirements
• Partnering with sponsored research

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Strategies and Systems that Promote Discovery

• Evaluating, developing, investing in value-added
  discovery delivery tools, especially open
  source tools
• Looking at
• Data mining analysis
• Social software
• Filtering, aggregating tools
• Metadata Creation and Management
• Looking at
• Author name mapping
• Version identification and linking
• User generated content

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Create and Sustain Trusted Information Environment

• Define, evaluate, invest in qualified archiving
  solutions
• Concept of Trusted Archive
• Portico, LOCKSS, CLOCKSS
• IRs
• Create, Identify, Store metadata on trusted
  archive for digital content
• title or even article level

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Create and Sustain Trusted Information Environment

• Teaching / Instruction
• Evaluating sources
• Using discovery tools to best advantage
• Integration with courses / online tutorials
• Partnerships with faculty
• Developing software tools that meet social
  networking trust needs
• Betas page http//libraries.mit.edu/help/betas/
• Open source sharing among libraries/universities

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New Positions
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New/changed librarian positions since Budapest OA
Initiative

• Role expansion seen in new positions
• From 2002-2007
• 14 librarian positions redefined (roughly 20)
• Headcount repurposed, not increased, except
• 2 new FTEs added
• 0.5 FTE funded by provost

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Position changes in MIT Libraries 21st century
Librarian Roles

• Research Group new group (2002)
• Design and develop tools to support discovery
• New vision of role of librarian on campus
  research partner, innovator
• Partnerships with CS department, Information
  Services
• Images librarian (2003)
• GIS librarian (c 2004)
• Train in GIS tools, support GIS service
  purchase only part of picture
• Data librarian / social sciences focus (c2004)
• Offer access to support for data sets, whether
  OA or purchased

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Position changes in MIT Libraries 21st century
Librarian Roles

• Changes in traditional subject specialist role
  beyond collection development in a subject
  discipline
• Computer science add interactive research
  component, working with faculty to operationalize
  research (2005)
• Add internet tools development specialty (2005)
• Add intensive instruction component, working with
  faculty to devise online course-based tutorials
  (2006)
• Civil Env. eng., add GIS responsibilities
  (c2005)
• Associate head, engineering library, refocus from
  circ/access to outreach program (2006)
• All changes are relevant to OA world

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Position changes in MIT Libraries 21st century
Librarian Roles

• Information services librarian for engineering
  science (2005)
• Deemphasize collections and even reference
  focus on services, tools
• Metadata specialist (2005)
• Support OA activities like MITs OpenCourseWare
• Participate in campus-wide initiatives related to
  digital content, not purchased content
• Digital products manager (2005)
• Build new systems, particularly for more open
  access to theses
• Scholarly publishing consultant (2006)
• Support author rights, goal of making MITs
  research more widely available
• Partner with institutional research, sponsored
  research, univ. press, faculty, sponsored
  research
• Dspace IR product manager (2007)
• Promote use of OA repository and develop features
• Associate director, collection services/ change
  to include systems management (2007)
• Beyond building collections systems, services,
  technology in relation to content

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Implications
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Role of Librarian in Open Access World
Expanding, Deepening

• Fundamentals dont change
• Support university in mission of generating,
  disseminating, and preserving knowledge
• Move toward OA has led to new, deepened
  partnerships on campus
• Sponsored research
• Institutional research
• Intellectual property
• University press
• Faculty
• Information services
• Partners in facilitating worldwide scholarly
  communication in a trusted information
  environment
• Librarians more at the center of the campus than
  when our gateways and collections were the only
  game in town

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Librarians Role in OA World?

• I thought the faculty committee on the library
  system would be three years of dry drudgery. But
  it turns out librarians in their new role are now
  located at the center of the most contentious and
  important issues of the day. --faculty
  member, 2007