The Evolving Scholarly Recordin the Campus Context

Sarah M. PritchardMarch 23, 2015

CAMPUS STAKEHOLDERS:BEYOND THE LIBRARY

• Faculty, students (as creators)• Campus academic departments (as managers of

course content and grey literature) • Senior administrators (general counsel, CFO, HR)• Trustees (governance policy)• Office of Research• Information Technology units• Disciplinary communities

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SYSTEM COMPONENTS:BEYOND THE INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY

• Course management systems• Faculty research networking systems• Grant and sponsored research management systems• Student and faculty personnel system• Campus servers and intranets• Disciplinary repositories, cloud and social platforms• Office hard drives

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POLICIES AND COMPLIANCE:BEYOND CONTENT LICENSES

• Copyright (institutional and individual levels)• Privacy of records (student work, clinical data,

business records)• IT security controls and web content policies• State electronic records retention laws• Open access (institutionally- or funder-mandated)• Rights of external system owners (hosted content)

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THE RECORD IS EVOLVING,BUT IS ITS ECOSYSTEM?

• The library’s role as a “selector:” overstepping?• Faculty sense of individual professional identity• High costs to change:

– Technical infrastructure and workflow mechanisms– Reshaping governance and policy

• Lack of a sense of urgency