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2016

Selected Works

Barbara Tierney

Scholarly Communication

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The Sky’S The Limit: Scholarly Communication, Digital Initiatives, Institutional Repositories, And Subject Librarians Oct 2016

The Sky’S The Limit: Scholarly Communication, Digital Initiatives, Institutional Repositories, And Subject Librarians

Barbara Tierney


The Sky’s the Limit: Scholarly Communication, Digital Initiatives, Institutional Repositories, and Subject Librarians

The University of Central Florida’s institutional repository, STARS – Showcase of Text, Archives, Research & Scholarship, has presented new opportunities for collaboration amongst the Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communication, Digital Initiatives, Research Services, and Subject Librarians. Building on efforts to proactively promote scholarly communication initiatives to the university community, these four units have used the institutional repository as a foundation for collaboration, outreach, marketing and educational efforts. This presentation will give an overview of STARS and highlight the role the IR has in increasing the collaborative efforts …


Grow Your Own Scholarly Communication Program, Barbara Tierney, Lee Dotson, Sarah Norris, Ven Basco, John Venecek Mar 2016

Grow Your Own Scholarly Communication Program, Barbara Tierney, Lee Dotson, Sarah Norris, Ven Basco, John Venecek

Barbara Tierney


How does an academic library go about growing its own Scholarly Communication (SC) program with no budget, no staff, no dedicated office space, no partners, and no experience? The University of Central Florida Libraries responded to such a challenge during 2012-15 by creating a grassroots SC program staffed by a volunteer 20-member library faculty/staff advisory group.  

The group began its work by creating an innovative “Research Lifecycle” model to help define an evolving menu of SC resources and services that could be turned on, as available, to UCF constituents. This grassroots program proved to be so successful that in 2015 …