Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-4-2021
Embargo Period
5-27-2025
Abstract
While scholarly communication is a well-established sub-discipline within academic libraries and influences so many areas of librarianship (Finlay et al, 2015; Xia and Li, 2015; Brantley et al,2017), it’s not commonly addressed within formal LIS training (Bonn et al, 2020), which may contribute to increased pressure to learn on the job, to burnout, and to elevated experiences of imposter syndrome (Owens, 2021). There are some understandable barriers to increasing LIS instruction on topics like open access, copyright, and fair use, publishing and repositories, research data management, impact measurement, and open education; they’re relatively new, they’re complex, they’re based in disciplinary practice, and they change rapidly (Sands et al,2018). That’s why we’ve been working on the Scholarly Communication Notebook (SCN), a repository of community-designed open resources for teaching about scholarly communication and for doing scholarly communication work in libraries.