Sustaining and Enhancing the Scholarly Communications Department: A Comprehensive Guide

by Kris S Helge

More and more academic libraries are being asked to provide scholarly communications services to their campuses, ranging from general information about copyright law to instruction for creating and hosting digital repositories and publishing services. To support academic librarians and information specialists in starting their own scholarly communications departments, Sustaining and Enhancing the Scholarly Communications Department begins by introducing key scholarly communications concepts, including copyright, Creative Commons licenses, author rights, open access, open educational resources, open-access e-journals, and institutional repositories. Authors Helge, Tmava, and Zerangue explain how to develop, manage, market, and maintain a scholarly communications department. They define specific tasks and tools for which many scholarly communications departments are responsible, including intellectual property, licensing issues, promoting open access, data management, and plagiarism conundrums. They also discuss strategies for collaborating with key campus stakeholders and convey which academic degrees benefit and may be necessary for personnel in a scholarly communications department. Finally, the authors offer managerial and leadership techniques to increase employee productivity, efficiency, retention, motivation, and happiness within the scholarly communications department.

182 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 11, 2019

Reviews

[Rusty del Norte · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book on Scholarly Communication is short, but it is put together well. The chapters are informative and helpful for those understanding the issues that scholarly writing deals with. Concepts covered include Open Access, Copyright, Creative Commons licensing, Affective Computing Software, Data Management Plan, and Electronic Thesis and Dissertations. They are given a good amount of coverage and a definition for the reader to understand.

Sometimes the book is a tad repetitive but that might be due to the multiple authors that contributed to the work. Overall a solid book that I would recommend if you research this narrow field.