Transforming Scholarly Communication
Scholars taking control of the scholarly communication and publication system to maximize dissemination of research

Library Services in Support of Scholarly Communication

 

Your Librarian

Librarians will work with you in a variety of ways by:

• Providing an overview of scholarly communication issues
  
  
• Offering guided discussions on scholarly communication topics
  
  
• Providing materials for distribution and discussion, including:
  • Open Access: Making Scholarly Content Freely Available (pdf)
  • Taking Back Control: Managing Copyright and Intellectual Property Handout (pdf)
  • Iowa Research Online: The University of Iowa’s Institutional Repository (pdf)
  • The Role of Scholarly Societies (pdf)
  • University of Iowa's Author Addendum (pdf version)
    
    
• Assisting in submitting content to the institutional repository, Iowa Research Online (IRO), and creating of a personal SelectedWorks web page.
  

 

Collections and Scholarly Communication

• Maintains local statistics on electronic resources usage and changes resulting from increased costs, etc.
• Tracks scholarly publishing developments and alternatives
• Transitions: Scholarly Communication News for the UI Community
• Supports publishing alternatives and non-profit endeavours
• Provides information concerning copyright and teaching/research, and copyright and author rights
• Contact Edward Shreeves, Director of Collections & Scholarly Communication or Karen Fischer, Collections Analysis & Planning Librarian.

Digital Library Services

Digital Library Services (DLS) coordinates the development and maintenance of the University's locally-created open access digital resources and offers specialized expertise and a wide range of tools and services to support UI faculty, staff and community partners in the creation of digital projects. Depending on the nature of the materials, the intended audience, and the available resources, DLS may be able to assist with the variety of digital services. DLS administers:

Iowa Digital Library: http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu

Iowa Research Online: http://ir.uiowa.edu

Hardin Library for the Health Sciences

• Resources on the NIH Public Access Policy
• Submission services to assist authors in submitting articles to PubMed Central.