Open Scholarship Sub-Committee

A Joint Report to the Discovery, Access & Learning Committee and Research Standing Committee

Terms of Reference | June 6, 2018

Overview

This sub-committee of DAL & RESC is intended to coordinate UBC Library’s efforts within the landscape of open at UBC, particularly in light of UBC’s emerging focus on knowledge mobilization and open community engagement in its new Strategic Plan. “Open scholarship” is emerging as an umbrella term covering the multiple areas of open access, open education, open science, open data, open software development, and more. It is also the focus of a specific initiative currently being led through a UBCO-UBCV Working Group (part of the UBC campus wide task force on Open Scholarship). The Library will be more effective in supporting these efforts if key staff members with a stake in these issues are working in a coordinated and synergistic manner.

Goals

The Open Scholarship Sub-Committee will have three main goals:

Support campus-wide initiatives and advocacy for Open Scholarship
Plan and deliver events with CTLT and other partners across both campuses
Develop tools and resources on open scholarship, such as a campus Open Scholarship web presence

Initial Tasks

Coordinate what is happening at the Library and, in partnership with other UBC units, inform the Library Executive Team and whichever campus task force is designated to steer open scholarship efforts. This could include:
- Promoting work that is happening in UBC Library and at UBC more generally
- Conducting an environmental scan of how other libraries are supporting open scholarship
- Delivering staff and user education about what is occurring in open scholarship
- Developing a briefing paper and short list of proposed objectives that could be furthered under the Library’s new Strategic Plan.
Re-examine UBC’s Open Access Position Statement (2013) and advise on strategies for strengthening its scope and impact - for example, advocating for language in research and tenure criteria that rewards open approaches.
In partnership with the Open UBC Working Group, evaluate and redevelop the open.ubc.ca website to cover open scholarship more broadly.
Develop an Open Scholarship yearly event plan and framework.

Proposed Membership

Erin Fields, Liaison Librarian & Flexible Learning Coordinator (Co-lead)
Stephanie Savage, Scholarly Communications & Copyright Librarian (Co-lead)
Eugene Barsky, Research Data Management Librarian
Leonora Crema, Scholarly Communications & Copyright Librarian
Will Engle, Open Education Strategist, CTLT
Tara Stephens-Kyte, Digital Repository Librarian
Sarah Parker, Reference Librarian, Woodward Library
Mathew Vis-Dunbar, Southern Medical Program Librarian & Open Scholarship, UBC-O

Meetings

Monthly meetings are scheduled with the possibility of additional meetings to work on tasks