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by Molly White, Librarian Liaison to AAS Publications Board

June 8, 2012 Anchorage, Alaska

Editors’ Reports

1. Astrophysical Journal

• Exponential growth in the number of papers published continues. 8.2% increase in the past year, and a 5.5% yearly growth over 7 years.
• Most papers find a referee by one week after submission.
• The first report for most papers occurs in 30 days.
• The mean total time for peer review is 110 days.
• The ApJ editorial office is moving with the editor, Ethan Vishniac to the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada.

2. Astronomical Journal

• Has a new Associate Editor, Ata Sarajedini and several new Science Editors.
• The time from receipt to the first decision is a median of 38 days.
• The median time from receipt of submitted paper is 143 days.
• The growth of AJ is flat.
• IOP’s consortial agreements have greatly increased the reach of AJ worldwide.
• There is some confusion amongst submitters about the subject differentiation between AJ and APJ. Perhaps it is a branding issue.
• AJ will continue to be the testbed for AAS technical innovations.

3. Astrophysical Journal Letters

• The new editor of ApJL is Fred Rasio at Northwestern Univ, Evanston, Illinois, with a new set of assoc. editors. The work flow is gradually moving to the new editor, and the transition will be complete by Jan., 2013.
• ApJL articles have set limits – 3500 words, or 4 pages, 50 references, 5 figures, 1 machine-readable table.
• The average time a paper spends with a referee is 14 days.
• There are up to 1200 submissions per year.
• There were several special issues in 2011-2012 (EVLA, SOFIA, EPOXI), but ApJL will no longer publish special issues.

4. Astronomy Education Review

• This is an online open-access journal. The number of articles published per year remains steady.
• The scope of the journal was discussed. The audience includes not only those engaged in college-level teaching, but also those engaged in public information and outreach.

5. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

• While not a journal of the AAS, PASP shares common concerns and issues.
• 80 of the 148 papers published last year were data analysis or instrumental papers.
• The editor of PASP is retiring and a new editor will be designated soon. The new editor will likely not be attending future AAS Publications Board meetings.
• The business model of the PASP is such that the journal finances are not separate from the society’s.

IOP Publisher’s report

• The AAS journals published ~43-45K pages in 2011. The time from acceptance to web posting is 40-50 days.
• AAS article downloads are the top for all IOP journals.
• IOP is working with DataCite to improve dataset linking by assigning DOIs to datasets.
• New features offered in some IOP journals include video abstracts and figure browsing (see New Journal of Physics articles, enhanced HTML version). These features are forthcoming for the AAS journals. Each article displays tabs that list references, citations, and supplemental data. A semantics program is in place – see the listings under “Users Also Read…”
• Work is underway with ADS and AAS on the concept of an astronomical thesaurus.
• ORCID author disambiguation will be implemented late in 2012.

AAS Publications Director, Chris Biemesderfer

• Pricing: Member subscription online price has been reduced to $25. Author fees/quanta charges have been reduced for 2012. Previously, AAS had planned for the remaining print subscriptions to bear all the actual print costs. However, further analysis found that the increase to print subscribers would be too great, so the decision has been postponed until 2016.
• Following the lead of the APS, AAS journals will be made freely available to public library on-site users in the U.S. AAS is working with IOP on the marketing of this new offering.
• AAS and the other major astronomy journal publishers are holding a workshop at the IAU General Assembly in Beijing, August 2012. It is open to all potential authors for guidance and assistance in writing, submitting and publishing astronomical papers.
• Work is underway to upgrade the AAS authors’ website, including the ethics statement and policy inventory.
• Data issues: AAS will develop a data policy that will address data citation expectations, the use of tags and IDs provided by data centers and other related topics. AAS also aims to help systematize the collection of information about funding sources.
• The AAS is contemplating the need for a place to store and preserve moderate to small-sized data sets. Large data sets are accommodated by facility and space mission archives that are well-tended. An organization has not yet stepped up to address the moderate to small datasets, and AAS will spearhead efforts to found such a resource. The ApJ Supplement has served as a place to meet some data publishing needs. It is important to preserve the version of the data used to produce a particular published paper.

Plagiarism discussion:

• The AAS journals have begun to use Cross Check in order to detect plagiarism. Authors will be asked to check a box during the submissions process to acknowledge that they are aware of the use of software to detect plagiarism.
• Most of the problems that occur are due to self-replication, and authors are given the opportunity to correct before a paper is sent to a referee.
• The Cross Check service will be extended to include submissions to the Astronomy Education Review. It is already in use in ApJ and AJ.
• The policy and practices will be publicized in the AAS newsletter and the AAS Bulletin.
• Institutional repository policy: AAS’s relationships are with the authors, not with the author’s institutions. The AAS prefers that the authors post the authoritative version of the article – the journal PDF – if the author chooses to post to an institutional repository. [See full text below]

Library report:

• The Pub Board was updated on the effort to raise arXiv support funds from libraries. A new membership model will be in effect in 2013 that will enable more institutions to contribute.
• Questions about the proper way to cite data will be addressed by the AAS in development of a data policy.
• A question was asked by a librarian about the inclusion of URLs in reference lists. URLs referring to stable documents (ejournals, conf. proceedings, databases) can be used in the references. URLs for personal websites, organizations, telescopes, and surveys should be used in footnotes only. See AAS instructions for authors for further details.

AAS Institutional Repository Policy

• The AAS has no formal relationship with any institutional repository. The Society does foster an important relationship with the community of authors, and we have a reputation for fairness and generosity towards our authors.
• The AAS grants authors of journal articles a broad spectrum of rights to make decisions about the re-use of those authors’ intellectual works. Among those rights is the permission to place copies of their articles on personal and departmental websites. If authors choose to disseminate copies of their work in this fashion, the editors of the AAS journals feel that it is important for scholarship that the authoritative version of the article from the journal be used; in other words, we prefer that the journal PDF be copied.
• In these times, during the rise in the popularity of institutional repositories, the Society does not forbid authors from depositing their work in such repositories. However, the AAS regards the deposit of scholarly work in such repositories to be a decision of the individual scholar, as long as the individual’s actions respect the diligence of the journals and their reviewers.

by Alison Verbeck

Jeffra Bussmann began a new job on August 1 as the STEM/Web Librarian at California State University, East Bay.

Christopher Erdmann and Alberto Accomazzi of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, have a recent SPIE article up in arXiv.

Uta Grothkopf, Librarian at European Southern Observatory, was featured in an SPIE Digital Library ad in the July/August 2012 issue of Information Outlook, p. 25.

Shaun Hardy was awarded the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s “Service to Science Award” in May. The award recognizes outstanding and/or unique contributions to science by employees who work in administration, support, and technical positions at the Institution. Hardy has served as librarian at Carnegie’s Geophysical Laboratory and Department of Terrestrial Magnetism since 1989.

Ruth Kneale, Systems Librarian for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope in Tucson, Arizona and webmaster for the National Solar Observatory (NSO), was interviewed in the Summer 2012 AIP Library Matters.

Jeanine Scaramozzino, College of Science & Mathematics, School of Education, and Data & GIS Librarian at California Polytechnic State University, has an article titled “A Study of Faculty Data Curation Behaviors and Attitudes at a Teaching-Centered University” in College and Research Libraries, v. 73, no.4, pp. 349-365.

Pat Viele was invited to submit the content of her poster session, “Information Fluency: Where to Start” for the column “For the New Teacher” in The Physics Teacher. It will appear in the September issue.

The following PAM members attended the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Beijing, China and participated in the sessions of the Working Group on Libraries: Sally Bosken, Jill Lagerstrom, Jane Holmquist, Uta Grothkopf, Kathleen Robertson, Eva Isaksson and Marsha Bishop. These sessions were held on August 23 and 24 and the program is available here.

IOP Publishing announced a new library advisory program this year. Their aim is to help the company develop products and services that are tailored to the needs of the scientific research community and to engage information professionals to secure the brightest future for scholarly communication. The members of the American IOP Library Advisory Board, selected for their experience and reputation in the industry include:

• Marsha Bishop, Observatory Librarian for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
• Jeffrey Bond, Science Librarian at Texas Christian University
• Michael Fosmire, Head of the Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Technology Division of Purdue University Libraries
• Zari Kamarei, Director of Science and Engineering Libraries at the University of Rochester
• Barbara Kern, Co-Director of the Science Libraries at the University of Chicago
• Susan Koskinen, Head Librarian of the Physics-Astronomy Library at the University of California, Berkeley
• Kathleen Lehman, Head of the Physics Library at the University of Arkansas
• Thurston Miller, Physical Sciences Librarian at the University of Notre Dame
• Joy Painter, Physics and Astronomy Librarian at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
• Jeanine Scaramozzino, Librarian for the College of Science and Mathematics at California State Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo·
• Alison Verbeck, Physics Librarian at Washington University in St. Louis

by Cunera Buys

It was great to see some of you in Chicago. I hope those of you who attended the annual meeting had a great time in my home town.

The next Membership Directory will come out in Spring 2013. Remember to update your SLA membership information with any address or name changes. Go to http://www.sla.org/ and log in using your SLA user name and password. Click on “Update Your Information” under the Membership tab on the SLA home page and update your name or contact information.

PAM currently has 196 members.

Please join me in welcoming new or returning PAM members since the last Bulletin.

Dr. Manuel De La Cruz Gutierrez
Math, Physics, and Technology Librarian
University of Houston
mdelacru@central.uh.edu

Jennifer Wyckoff
Publication and Courses Sales representative
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
jwyckoff@seg.org

by Jeffra Bussmann

At SLA Annual in Chicago, during the PAM Business Meeting, we had a brief discussion about the newly drafted PAM Strategic Plan for 2012-2015. It can be viewed in the Strategic Planning documents on the PAM website.

We would very much like hear your feedback on this plan. You may email me with your comments and suggestions. Please respond by September 21st.

Also, we would like to thank all who completed our survey last Fall. It was very useful as we put this strategic plan together. There is a PDF of the simple checkbox responses (it does not include open-ended responses) available for review. If you would like more information about survey responses, please do not hesitate to contact me. We are hoping to put together some visuals of the survey response data post to the site as well.

Strategic Planning Committee: Jeffra Bussmann (Chair), Dorothy McGarry, Lauren Gala, and Ruth Kneale

by Linda Yamamoto

The Publisher Liaisons met at the SLA Annual Conference in Chicago in the Division Hospitality Suite on Tuesday, July 17 at 5:30pm. Many thanks go to those liaisons and publisher representatives who attended the meeting. Special thanks go to IOP for providing refreshments. What follows is a combination of the meeting minutes, extended reports from other liaisons and reports from liaisons unable to attend.

Thanks also to Beth Ayer of AMS for taking notes at the meeting.

Respectfully submitted, Linda Yamamoto
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ACM (Carol Hutchins):

We should be watching for some definite word via ACM channels, in particular via http://librarians.acm.org/, regarding several issues related to open access publishing, copyright transfer versus license to publish, and also improved accessibility of ACM content from mobile devices. An extensive consultation, leading to decisions has been underway. I expect there to be announcements before the end of calendar 2012.

American Astronomical Society Publications Board Meeting

June 8, 2012 Anchorage, Alaska (Molly White)
[see report in this issue of the Bulletin]

American Mathematical Society

• Coming soon: counter-compliant journal usage statistics (Fall 2012)
• Recently released: mobile pairing. Users who access AMS subscriptions through their institutions can now also access those subscriptions remotely through mobile devices.
• AMS eBook program continues to develop (began with Contemporary Mathematics)

Inspec (Rich Hunt):

The IET is now selling eBooks. They are also creating training videos to help from the vendor’s side.

IOP (Sue Koskinen):

• IOP has three new Library Advisory Boards (LABs), in Europe, the US and Asia. They are working closely with the LABs to improve their services, websites, subscription models, usage statistics, and other aspects, such as reducing the number of clicks to an article.
• The new IOP Publishing website is up at http://ioppublishing.org.
• A reminder to read their report “Collaborative yet independent: Information Practices in the Physical Sciences.”
• They will begin publishing two journals: Laser Physics and Laser Physics Letters.
• IOP Science Express is their iPhone app.
• They also have new open access journals.

SIAM (JoAnn Sears):

• SIAM recently migrated its Digital Library from the Scitation to Literatum/Atypon platform. If you have any outstanding issues, let them know.
• A new journal, Journal on Uncertainty Quantification, will be launched in January 2013 and will be free for the entire year.
• SIAM is also working to include options for authors to submit supplementary information with articles. They are also currently exploring mobile pairing services.
• You may also be interested in information about their Moody’s Mega Math (M3) Challenge high school program. Teams from twenty-eight eastern states and Washington, DC were eligible to participate in this year’s challenge. The program will expand westward over the next few years.

SPIE (Linda Yamamoto):

SPIE has been busily preparing for the move of its Digital Library next month from Scitation to a new platform provider, Silverchair Information Systems. They have been working on an extensive FAQ for librarians. The URL for the homepage will remain the same. More information was presented during the Vendor’s Update.

Mathematical Sciences Publishers (MSP) (Brian Quigley):

• MSP raised subscription prices 5 – 33% last year to more accurately reflect printing costs and increased size of journals. Price/page remains well below the average.
• Rob Kirby and Silvio Levy sent a letter to PAM and subscribers to explain the price increases
• MSP journals continue to grow in strength and quality. Algebra & Number Theory and Analysis & PDE in particular are attracting larger numbers of high-quality articles.
• MSP will join CLOCKSS by the end of the year to preserve their journals.
• MSP launched Celebratio Mathematica: Collected Works for the Digital Age this year. Freely available and supported by donations. May includebiographical information, bibliographies, images, commentaries, and unpublished work.

MathSciNet:

Mobile pairing is now available (only via the Providence, RI, server)! For more information, see http://www.ams.org/publications/mobilepairing. Also remember that there are video tutorials available on how to use MathSciNet.

Optical Society of America (OSA):

Talked about pubs advisory board. The Digital Archive is now for sale, giving perpetual access to back issues. The new OSA ImageBank is a searchable image database of thousands of high-quality images from a selection of OSA journals for research and classroom use.

Project Euclid (Steve Rockey):

• Project Euclid is currently working on a platform redesign and upgrade. We plan to launch the new platform by before the end of 2012. The site redesign will take into account mobile device accessibility and include additional features that users and librarians have asked for such as citation exporting.
• We are also working on Shibboleth, first for the US and UK federations, with plans to incorporate others.
• We will be adding Print-on-Demand capabilities beginning with select IMS monograph series and hope to roll this out to other monographs and back issues for journals.
• Two previously AK Peters journals (Internet Mathematics and Experimental Mathematics) have been pulled from Euclid Prime by their new publisher Taylor &Francis. Starting in 2013, these journals will no longer be a part of Euclid Prime, but back content will remain.
• Bayesian Analysis, the journal for the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, has joined Project Euclid and will be hosted on our platform.
• We are also working with the Mathematical Society of Japan to add additional open access content for content that is currently only available in print form – possibly conference proceedings and the MSJ Memoirs (5 year moving wall)
• Euclid Prime pricing will remain the same for 2013, with the 2 T&F journals coming out of the collection, but back content remaining. As mentioned above 2013 will also see the release of the upgraded and redesigned platform.

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) (Marsha Bishop):

• There is a new incoming editor for Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• PASP will not increase library subscription costs this year
• ASP conference series – subscribers can access 1,000 articles per month and back editions of books at discounts. Sales@astrosociety.org
• IAU- general assembly in Beijing August 20th, every three years. Holding a two day working group for libraries on the 23rd, 24th.

Other news:

• Journal of Graphics Tools (thanks to Carol Hutchins for reporting this): AK Peters, the original publisher for this journal (aka Journal of Graphics, GPU, & Game Tools, 2009-2011), was acquired by Taylor & Francis in 2011. Recently the editorial board resigned and started a new online Open Access journal, The Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques http://jcgt.org/.

Discussion:

• The Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) of the American Society of Engineering Education(ASEE) has a “Punch List of Best Practices for Electronic Resources” on their website, which was last updated in May 2005. Linda proposed that the committee could work to expand the document to address Open Access issues.
• We need a volunteer to chair the committee starting in 2013, as Linda’s term is over at the end of the year. Contact Stella Ota if you’re interested. The idea was floated that starting next year the group could meet virtually, perhaps via conference call, as it’s become difficult to meet during the Annual Conference as the number of sessions continues to decrease. Liaisons could prepare reports to share with the group ahead of time.
• It was suggested that it would be useful to have a publisher liaison for Oxford University Press.
• Question for IOP: If an article opens automatically, does it count as a visit? Answer: They are looking at that issue, and they think the views are the same. They will make sure that it is giving accurate Counter information.

by Debra Kolah

Gretchen McNeely, Tilla Edmunds, Thomson Reuters, Debra Kolah, Convener of the SLA UX Caucus, and Mike Corbett shared stories about their UX experiences, and introduced the packed audience to relevant terms in UX, information architecture (IA) and service design; elements of design thinking that play into UX discussions; areas where content strategy, IA and UX intersect; the challenges addressed by effective experience design; and simple ways to assess the current user experience in your information environment.

McNeely believes usability assessments, metrics and findings are “tools in the toolkit” that ultimately help us design and enhance the overall user experience. You don’t need to be a usability expert to contribute in the UX world but concrete aspects of usability serve as a crucial component of the way people interact with brands.

Edmunds, spoke about the collaborative efforts of developing the new EndNote iPad app and the importance of understanding who your users are by using personas, and knowing age, role, problems, tasks, and goals. For the iPad app, context of use was very important, and they involved users by include them at every stage of development.

Kolah spoke about an iPad project that is driven by questions around: Are our users going to use our ebooks? Do our users want us to buy more econtent? Are our users struggling with our existing mobile resources? She laid a foundation of ethnographic work in libraries by talking about Nancy Foster from the University of Rochester and Andrew Asher from the ERIAL Project (Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries.) Also, work by anthropologists like Sharon Traweek (Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The world of High Energy Physicists 1989) can be very important to librarians. The UX iPad study will inform the way we provide ebooks, and mobile library information. Kolah blogs at: http://www.effervescentlibrarian.wordpress.com

Mike Corbett gave an excellent student perspective of usability testing Library Explorer on a Microsoft Surface table at Brown University and Harvard. The presentation is available at the Harvard Library UX site.

MODERATOR:
Stella Ota, Stanford University

SPEAKERS:
Debra Kolah, Rice University; Mike Corbett, Simmons College; Gretchen McNeely, Self-Employed; Tilla Edmunds,Thomson Reuters

by Julie Arendt

Four physics and mathematics publishers provided their perspectives at the PAM Vendor update this year. The speakers were asked to present on the theme of “Practicing Agility in an Open World Economy” as well as report on any recent changes at their company. Although they did not coordinate their presentations, some common elements came up in all of the presentations. One common topic among the four publishers was a movement beyond simply providing pdfs of articles to including mobile access, additional content, and semantic enhancement. Other common topics were pressure to find the right pricing model and partnerships with other organizations. Below are a brief summary of the individual presentations:

David Marshall from SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) announced a supplementary materials policy. Articles may include electronic appendices, such as extra proofs or equations, which will be refereed. Electronic articles may also include supplementary materials, such as data sets or computer code, which will not be refereed. SIAM also plans to establish mobile pairing, so users will be able to more easily access SIAM journals from their mobile devices. In the area of pricing, SIAM is exploring DeepDyve and token systems for non-subscribers to access SIAM journals and expects changes in the next year or two. Among the partnerships that Marshall highlighted was a new journal, SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification (JUQ), published jointly with the American Statistical Association.

Eric Pepper from SPIE emphasized changes in their publications. In conjunction with a move to the SC6M platform from Silverchair, SPIE has created a taxonomy and is adding tags to articles in order to take advantage of the platform’s semantic capabilities. With this semantic enhancement, SPIE will be able to provide topical collections of articles associated with multiple conferences, to suggest related content based on the taxonomic tags, and to allow readers to apply facets and filters to their searches. For some conference presentations, multimedia will be associated with the papers. SPIE will also provide linking for mobile devices. In the area of open access, SPIE has a hybrid model, in which authors can pay $100 per page to make their papers open access within subscription journals. Subscription prices will be reduced based on uptake, and if a journal reaches about 80% or 90% open access uptake, the entire journal will go open access.

John Haynes from AIP (American Institute of Physics) described some of the semantic enhancement that AIP is adding to publications in the next generation of Scitation, so that their publications can include suggestions of similar articles based on semantic similarity. The enhancements will also aid in providing profiles to disambiguate authors. In the area of pricing and open access models, Haynes emphasized that the use of arXiv varies widely among subdisciplines within physics, with especially low use in applied physics. Haynes announced that AIP will launch two open access journals in the next year: JAP Materials and APL Materials. Haynes also reported that uptake for hybrid open access in AIP’s subscription journals is less than 1%. AIP’s change in strategic focus in the past year has resulted in greater partnering with other organizations for technology and other non-core services, so that AIP can focus on publishing.

Olaf Ernst from IOP (Institute of Physics) highlighted the trend in publishing from print to electronic to mobile delivery. Ernst discussed the move to the “article of the future” that is flexible for the different devices that readers use and that includes other enhancements such as the ability for readers to download figures separate from articles and for video to be imbedded in articles. In the area of pricing, IOP is examining whether continuing with an underlying business models based on historically print-based collections is an appropriate way to price current journals. IOP is also looking to emerging markets, such as China for new business. Like AIP, uptake for hybrid open access has been low in IOP journals, with just four articles published this way in IOP journals in the last year.

To see the full slide presentations from the session, visit: http://pam.sla.org/conferences/sla2012/

by Kathleen Lehman and Michael Chesnes

Brian Simboli, Michiko Tanaka, Emily Poworoznek, and Kris Fowler at PAM’s Physics Roundtable session at the SLA 2012 Annual Conference.

The Physics Roundtable Session, which was generously sponsored by OSA, took place on the Tuesday afternoon of the 2012 SLA Conference in Chicago. The session allowed for the PAM members at each table to discuss a common issue at their institutions. Topics included institutional repositories, faculty interaction, physics library instruction, space planning, and nontraditional services, as well and the popular “wild card” option. Attendees were given the opportunity of switching tables halfway through the session in order to discuss more than one topic. The session, which was attended by approximately 70 people, concluded with each table sharing the highlights of their discussions with the whole group. Thank you to everyone who participated and shared their notes!

Among the more vigorous discussions was one on the pros and cons of interdisciplinary vs. subject specific institutional repositories. For instance, general purpose search interfaces can retrieve subjects across a wide variety of disciplines, but some disciplines need to have their data retrieved by very specific search queries, for instance geographic coordinates.

There was also a big discussion of branch libraries at the Physics Library Instruction table, including the importance of using their own websites for outreach and creating distribution lists.

The Space Planning table discussed off-site storage options, as well as accessing and scanning documents from off-site facilities, while the Nontraditional Services table discussed embedded, concierge, house, and mobile librarians, in addition to data management through Dataverse.

Other topics that came up in multiple sessions were author disambiguation, faculty liaisons, food and coffee for library users – including parents of students.

Notes from the table discussions are below.

Institutional Repositories

• Interdisciplinary – how should we handle that?
• Discipline-specific repositories
• How to construct a search interface for a general IR?
  • If it can do term searching, is that enough?
  • If it needs to be searched with geographical coordinates
• Brookhaven Nat’l. Lab – closed repository for technical notes for certain departments. Must cooperate with IT Dept. and use Sharepoint (access is internal only).
• PEER Project – funded European project (on many aspects of IR’s)
• Supplementary data isn’t subject to copyright in the same way as text.
• Princeton has a DSpace IR w/ a funding model of having the provider fund (Serge Goldstein has her presenting about funding model (1.5 x needed – for year?))
• Author disambiguation will be an issue for IR’s.
  • Math reviews hopes that people will look to them to disambiguate mathematicians’ names. Authors have a vested interest in keeping their names identifiable in a specialized community – maybe not so much in the broader community that ORCID will serve
• Harvard has an IR (“DASH”); faculty are not seemingly committing to putting papers into the local school repository if they have access to larger/national/international repository.
• What is the sustainability of a local repository?
  • Dryad – bill publishers – someone has to pay!
  • SSRN = Social Sciences Research Network
  • REPEC = economics
  • AGECONSEARCH = int’l., successful solution for specific subdomain
• If repositories are highly dispersed, how will discovery be successful?
• UMinn – has institutional records, theses, working papers, conference proceedings, etc. Also has a separate image repository
• Can institutional repositories be considered permanent?
• The theses are a very successful repository item. But, does that make discovery difficult, if they’re not on Proquest Digital Dissertation?
• HAL – Thesis search (for artificial intelligence?)
• OPENDOAR – can search, but not specifically for theses – need to include a term for thesis or dissertation in search
• OAISTER
• Linked open data
• Eagle – I

Faculty Interaction

• Email distributor lists, newsletters ways of being embedded
• One or group or with faculty – so they know who we are they are and their work
• Personal connections as opposed to electronic
• “Coffee hour with Peggy”
  • Chat over beverages/coffee for 1 hour – what is going on in your area? – Way in!
  • Faculty started complaining about quality of student work and Peggy got involved (go see her poster)
• Email via Constant Contact service
  • Can track if they open email

Physics Library Instruction

• Do any of us do it? – hard to get buy in
• A way into department through citation management class
• Physics departments being dissolved- maybe step into this gap that is forming
• Ethics, communication scholarly communication sessions- orientations every month, size of audience differs
• Big discussion of branch libraries
• Ways to reach out for branch libraries- emphasis on their websites
• Creating own distribution lists

Space Planning

• Losing library space to departments- discussions on storage space
• We call it auxiliary and not storage
• Some ability to scan items there
• Spaces for users actually to work in facility
• Commitment to staffing- ILL, scanning
• Do it for everyone or certain people?
• Turnaround 24 hours for delivery of materials

Nontraditional Services

• Concierge librarianship
• Embedded librarianship – U Wisconsin, Madison- embedded in lab and helping them manage their data flow
• Harvard working with ADS, mining their records
• DMPS (data management plans)
  • Dataverse
  • Harvard using database, others using IR’S
• Outreach to departments, special prospects
• House librarians
• Breakfast for parents of incoming freshmen at Brown
• Mobile librarian- go to the lab, dorm, etc. with laptop
• Harvesting articles for IR, for faculty
• Delivery of PDFs to people
• Outreach to campus and the public (transit of Venus, event, displays)
• Proctor exams for department- gets undergrads to be aware of the library

Wild Card

• Elected Subscriptions
• SCOAP3
• Arxiv libraries and subscriptions
• What does the future hold for balance b/w library budgets and publishing cost/subscription rates
  • Profits vs. budgets
  • What’s going to give?
• How to influence budget planning – have no ability to change this
• Space at a premium- desire for more
• How do you feel about another IG
• How functional will the systems be?
• Who will manage libraries?
• Author ID – broad support but how to get it started? How functional will it be? How much work
  will we have to do?
• Interdisciplinary physics
  • NASA Goddard – many subjects related to Physics but almost always indirect
  • U. Penn – combined health sciences/medical imaging with Physics – library instruction including published
  • APS – hosts Physics events in building shared with other Physics societies. Some journal articles on physics of football, etc.
• Cancelling Inspec – ArXiv, rising costs
• Cancel Kovel because no way out of bundle