Group Description:
SCELC Scholarly Communication Committee is charged to explore, identify and recommend collaborative opportunities to advance scholarly communication in member libraries. The committee will stay informed and distribute information to member libraries about how collection development is being effected by new scholarly communication models. The committee will monitor current trends and developments that threaten fair participation in, and open access to, the scholarly record. It will serve as a clearinghouse for the diversity of approaches to preparing our campus communities to leverage changes in the scholarly communication system.
Official SCC description and overview (PDF; 610KB)
Examples of working topics include
- Sharing current scholarly communications efforts across SCELC’s campuses to identify models for others to follow/adapt and to enable potential collaborations.
- Leveraging our collective action as a buying consortium to provide open and fair access to SCELC Member institutions’ faculty and researchers published works.
- Coordinating across institutions to provide access to textbooks and open education resources (OER) in shared catalogs and through OER creation.
- Disseminating knowledge and comparing critical analysis of the impact of scholarly communication developments specifically for the SCELC member institutions
