Alyssa Arbuckle

Librarians play a key role in the scholarly communication cycle. In “Collaboration in Scholarly Communication: Opportunities to Normalize Open Access,” Allyson Rodriguez details how librarians can promote an open access agenda and educate faculty members about scholarly communication practices and pragmatics. Rodriguez suggests that there are three main areas where librarians can promote open access: through outreach and education, highlighting and celebrating, and acquisitions. As Rodriguez writes, “Open access must become a ‘normal’ part of the academic lifestyle,” and in…

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In “How to Scuttle a Scholarly Communication Initiative,” Dorothea Salo offers a tongue-in-cheek accounting of the various ways one could systematically destroy a scholarly communication initiative–especially an OA scholarly communication initiative. She writes from the library perspective, but her comments resonate across those who are involved with scholarly communication in any role. Salo’s satire is poignant because it is so relatable; among her suggestions for destroying a schol comm initiative are: not investing in an initiative in the longterm, but…

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“From the Ground Up: A Group Editorial on the Most Pressing Issues in Scholarly Communication” draws together the perspectives of six Editorial Board members from the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. The contributors were asked to consider the following prompts: What do you see as the most pressing issue(s) in scholarly communication today? What are we doing that’s important? What aren’t we doing that we should be? Who should we be working with? What mountains should we try to…

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