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Scholarly Communication

Matt Ruen

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Evaluating Scholarly Communication Services And Programs To Plan For Sustained Success, Jacklyn Rander, Matt Ruen Jan 2016

Evaluating Scholarly Communication Services And Programs To Plan For Sustained Success, Jacklyn Rander, Matt Ruen

Matt Ruen

The scholarly communications program and institutional repository at Grand Valley State University began in 2008, and in its first seven years, grew rapidly. Our team, recently-expanded, now includes three full time positions, and through our repository we host open textbooks, open-access journals, and thousands of documents. Our initial growth was organic and opportunistic, which enabled this initiative to successfully take root in the University Libraries. The next challenge for our scholarly communications program is to make sure those early roots are strong and healthy, so that we can sustain our initial success through the next seven years and beyond. In …

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Greater Than The Sum Of Our Parts: Building Support For Oer From Existing Services On Campus, Matt Ruen Dec 2015

Greater Than The Sum Of Our Parts: Building Support For Oer From Existing Services On Campus, Matt Ruen

Matt Ruen

At Grand Valley State University, the Libraries and several campus partners--including campus IT and offices that support faculty research and effective teaching--have come together to provide support for the creation and adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) on our campus.  But rather than developing brand new programs or asking for additional resources right at the start, we realized that each of our units already offers services that could support faculty creating and using OER.  Through our OER Initiative, we’ve begun coordinating our efforts to promote these services and build relationships with each other and with faculty allies interested in doing …

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Found In Translation: Communicating The Value & Impact Of Library Publishing--Finding Stories, Matt Ruen Mar 2015

Found In Translation: Communicating The Value & Impact Of Library Publishing--Finding Stories, Matt Ruen

Matt Ruen

At Grand Valley State University, the Libraries’ publishing program grew out of the scholarly communications program and regular library services, rather than a separate university press or publishing center. This organic process has kept our scholarly communications team closely engaged with and visible to liaison librarians and other partners. As our programs have evolved, the Libraries’ assessment measures have increasingly included activities related to publishing and scholarly communications. However, existing reporting practices, focused as they are on the impact of other library units, are incomplete tools for understanding the impact, effectiveness, and needs of the publishing program. As a result, …

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