Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: aculty often report that the promotion and tenure (P&T) process is a barrier to adopting open access (OA) practices.1 Even as libraries offer a growing number of OA services (including repositories, funds, journal publishing, data management, and altmetrics tools), efforts to reform the institutional scholarly communication culture will lag if the explicit and implicit values of P&T committees do not adapt.Here we describe the efforts of one institution, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), to reward OA scholarship in the P&T process.With librarians as advocates, participants, and change agents, IUPUI has become one of the first to include OA as a value in its P&T guidelines. 2 At IUPUI this policy-driven, top-down approach is complemented with a bottom-up education and outreach strategy.These librarian-facilitated efforts make the first steps toward building a scholarly communication environment that rewards OA participation.
Authors: Jere Odell, Heather Coates, Kristi Palmer
Institution: Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2468436820