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December 13, 2012
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Washington, DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Organization of Scholarly Communication Services, SPEC Kit 332, which explores how research institutions are currently organizing staff to support scholarly communication services, and whether their organizational structures have changed since 2007, when member libraries were surveyed about their scholarly communication education initiatives. This SPEC Kit covers who leads scholarly communication efforts inside and outside the library, the scholarly communication related services that are offered to researchers, and which staff support those services. The publication also looks at how the library measures the success of its scholarly communication services, including demonstrable outcomes of these services.
The SPEC Kit includes position descriptions for library leaders of scholarly communication efforts, charges for SC committees, organization charts, descriptions of SC services, assessment tools, open access policies, and SC resolutions.
SPEC Kit 332, Organization of Scholarly Communication Services
Rachel Radom, Melanie Feltner-Reichert, and kynita stringer-stanback
November 2012 • 174 pp.
SPEC Kit 332
ISBN 1-59407-890-4 • $50 • Password or IP access
The SPEC Kit Collection provides online access to all titles published from 2006 to the present (SPEC Kit 292 --). Password access is $400. IP access is $300 ARL members/$400 all others.
ISBN 1-59407-889-0 • $35 ARL members/$45 all others
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