While much of the conversation about Open Access to date has been around scholarly and scientific journals, primary source materials and data for humanities and social science research are increasingly moving behind paywalls. The 2018 eDesiderata Forum—organized jointly by CRL and the Northeast Research Libraries Consortium (NERL)—will examine existing and emerging models for Open Access to news, archives, government information, and other primary data. Presenters will suggest how U.S. and Canadian libraries might leverage their collective influence to minimize or eliminate barriers to Open Access and achieve greater returns on their investment in digital resources.
Session 1 Presentation Slides [2]
A variety of models for sustaining Open Access digital resources exist and many of those are now evolving. Presenters will discuss the pros, cons, and possibilities of three models promoted by community-driven initiatives:
Infrastructure for social science research: The ICPSR model and its future Libby Hemphill [3], Director, Resource Center for Minority Data and Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Information.
Moving from grant to membership models: the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Medical Heritage Library Constance Rinaldo [5], Librarian, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, and Melissa Grafe [6], John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University
Supporting Open Access at the grassroots: USAIN and Project Ceres Michael Cook, Head of Collection Development & Digital Collections, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, and Amy Paster [7], Head, Life Sciences Library, Pennsylvania State University
Session 2 Presentation Slides [8]
Experimentation in the publishing world, and in the world of political activism and investigative journalism, have produced some promising new models for sustainable, paywall-free access to data and digital content. How can libraries, working together, support and encourage those efforts?
The changing Reveal Digital model Peggy Glahn [9], Program Director, Reveal Digital.
Leveraging OA publishing infrastructure: JSTOR's Open Access initiatives Presenter: Deirdre Ryan, Director of JSTOR Forum & Primary Sources
The growing privatization of public domain collections and public interest data, and some emerging alternatives Presenter: Bernard Reilly, President, CRL.
Session 3 Presentation Slides [11]
A panel of experts will discuss potential strategies for cooperative investment in Open Access primary sources, and how those cooperative efforts could best be structured to benefit the academy and digital scholarship.
CRL's annual eDesiderata Forum brings expert knowledge and insight to bear on the challenges of acquisition, licensing and enabling access to databases, datasets, and data services for scholarly research. The forums explore community interest in commercial and open access data sources, illuminate market practices and economics, and identify priorities for CRL analysis and action on behalf of its member libraries.
The 2018 eDesiderata Forum is open to librarians, staff, and faculty at CRL and NERL member institutions. Registrants may join the sessions at any time during the Forum. To encourage real-time participation and discussion, recordings will not be available for later access. Speakers' slides and a summary report will be posted after the event.
General:
Speakers:
Michael Cook is the Head of Collections at Cornell University's Albert R. Mann Library. Following early experience in 1994 with the Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) project, his current efforts in the preservation of print and born-digital land-grant research outputs are in coordination with organizations such as the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN), the Agricultural Network Information Collaborative (AgNIC) and CRL. He is also active in the collaborative building of digital collections through Cornell's memberships in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) and the HathiTrust Digital Library.
Lindsay Cronk [12], Head of Collection Strategies at University of Rochester Libraries, has worked in a variety of leadership positions in consortia and academic libraries. In 2017 Cronk was named a “Mover and Shaker” by Library Journal for her work in data visualization and community building.
Peggy Glahn [9] has been the Program Director for open access publishing at Reveal Digital since 2014. While working at such companies as ProQuest, Apex, and Cengage/Gale she gained expertise in helping libraries expand their access to content. At Reveal Glahn collaborates with scholarly institutions to expand access to archives and special collections in the humanities.
Melissa Grafe [6], Head of the Medical Historical Library at Yale School of Medicine, joined Yale University in 2011 as the John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Medicine from Johns Hopkins University in 2009, and was a Council of Library and Information Resources (CLIR) postdoctoral fellow at Lehigh University Library. Melissa is President of the Medical Heritage Library, Inc.
Libby Hemphill [3] directs the Resource Center for Minority Data at ICPSR and holds a joint appointment as an Associate Professor in the University Of Michigan School Of Information. She joined ICPSR in September 2017 from Illinois Institute of Technology where she was an Associate Professor of Communication and Information Studies. She studies politicians, non-profit organizations, and television fans to help develop automated mechanisms for moderating and classifying content in social media in order to reduce toxicity in online conversations.
Janet Hulm is the Assistant Dean for Collections & Digital Initiatives at Ohio University. She has served in various capacaties at Ohio since 2005, including Head of Acquisitions & Resource Sharing and Interim Head of Cataloging & Processing. She is presently a member of CRL's Collections & Services Policy Committee (CSPC).
Elizabeth (Eliz) Kirk is the Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources for the Harvard Library. In this role she provides system-wide leadership for collection development, as well as management of collection development within Harvard College Library, and is responsible for Harvard’s Information and Technical Services, Preservation Services, and Office for Scholarly Communication. She has spoken extensively on electronic information resources; library services to distance education; social entrepreneurship in libraries; copyright, scholarly publishing, and open scholarship. Eliz serves on the board of Reveal Digital and the library steering committee of Knowledge Unlatched.
Amy Paster [7] is Head of the Life Sciences Library at Pennsylvania State University. She is the recipient of several awards, including the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) Service to the Profession Award. Paster has published on the curation and research uses of agricultural data
Constance Rinaldo [5]has been the Librarian of the Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University since 1999. She is a founding member (2005) and Chair of the Members Council of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. She was previously Head of Collections in the Biomedical Libraries at Dartmouth College.
Deirdre Ryan is the Director of JSTOR Forum where she works with libraries and museums around the world to manage and distribute their digital content across a variety of web-based platforms. For ten years, she has led the JSTOR teams responsible for developing primary source collections, including African Heritage Sites and Landscapes, Auction Catalogs, JSTOR Plant Science, British Pamphlets, and Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa.
Links
[1] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/highlight_images/eDesiderata_forum.jpg
[2] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/shared/Session%20I%20eDesiderata%20Forum.pdf
[3] https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/about/staff/hemphill.html
[4] https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/
[5] https://library.mcz.harvard.edu/people/connie-rinaldo
[6] https://library.medicine.yale.edu/about/staff2/melissa-grafe-phd
[7] https://libraries.psu.edu/directory/alp4
[8] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/shared/Session%20II%20eDesiderata%20Forum.pdf
[9] http://revealdigital.com/how-it-works/staff/
[10] http://revealdigital.com/
[11] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/shared/Session%20III%20eDesiderata%20Forum.pdf
[12] https://lindsaythelibrarian.com/cv/
[13] https://www.library.ohio.edu/staff/hulm/
[14] https://www.crl.edu/facets/licensing
[15] mailto:events@crl.edu
[16] https://www.crl.edu/events
[17] https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-2018/access-to-digital-resources-mapping-the-landscape-of-a-problem
[18] https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/lib_ts_pubs/75/
[19] http://www.community.cla.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/59_3.pdf
[20] https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2017.0003
[21] http://library.ifla.org/1867/1/S12-2017-mathuews-en.pdf
[22] https://www.crl.edu/blogs/sea-change-9-investment-open-access-and-shared-digital-resources