Hard won: the challenges of obtaining scholarly communication knowledge & skills
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This is a talk presented to ALIA HLA Lunchtime Series 2021: 'All things Open' - updates on the current state of Open Scholarship in Australia: Event 1 ABSTRACT: "This talk will consider the challenges associated with identifying and acquiring the skills needed in scholarly communication. It will describe some of the findings from a recent Australasian survey https://cpas.anu.edu.au/research/research-projects/scholarly-communication-knowledge-and-skills-australasian-research considering the educational and training backgrounds of people working in scholarly communication support, and their confidence in a range of specific competencies. The talk will also discuss the need to identify and articulate a curriculum for scholarly communication for the research community and how this will both inform the skill sets needed within academic and other research libraries and assist future workforce planning."
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- 1. Hard won: The challenges of obtaining scholarly communication knowledge & skills ALIA HLA Lunchtime Series 2021: 'All things Open' - updates on the current state of Open Scholarship in Australia: Event 1 15 July 2021 – Online Dr Danny Kingsley Associate Librarian (Content & Digital Library Strategy) Flinders University Image CC-BY Danny Kingsley
- 2. Very hot off the press! RLUK report https://www.rluk.ac.uk/rluk-publishes-report-on-the-role-of-research-libraries-in-the-production-of-scholarly- research/
- 3. It takes a village https://twitter.com/helenclare/status/1413128775164862477
- 6. People working in LIS are highly educated
- 7. Cambridge study in 2016 • The hypothesis: • there is a systematic lack of education on scholarly communication issues available to those entering the library profession. This is creating a time bomb skills gap in the academic library profession and unless action is taken we may well end up with a workforce not suited to work in the 21st century research library. • Over 500 respondents from around the world https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1313
- 8. Results of 500+ responses to UK survey Slide from: Sewell, C. (2018). Avoiding Extinction Re-Skilling the 21st Century Academic Librarian [Presentation file]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.25996
- 9. So why don’t they feel secure about their school comm knowledge? “3 in 4, or 75 percent, of [scholarly communication] librarians reporting above-average feelings of impostorism” https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/24984
- 10. Possible causes? Scholarly Communication staff are working with academics – who often don’t value people who don’t have PhDs in their own field (!) https://www.amazon.com/Academic-Tribes-Territories- Intellectual-Discipline/dp/0335206271 https://apo.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2020- 08/apo-nid307708.pdf Promoting Scholarly Communication requires developing multiple cross- campus partnerships
- 11. Does all this education help? Slide from: Sewell, C. (2018). Avoiding Extinction Re-Skilling the 21st Century Academic Librarian [Presentation file]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.25996 “Part of the problem librarians’ face in this area is the issue of Universities being hierarchical institutions where the PhD is a piece of cultural capital that is often necessary to be taken seriously by academics. I don't think my PhD will make me a better librarian but it will make them think I am a better librarian!” Respondent to our survey
- 12. Is it because what is required of LIS has changed? • Many schol comm roles are new Sewell, C. (2018). Research data supporting: Where do they come from? The educational background of people working in scholarly communication [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.25991
- 13. Experienced librarians, newish roles Some components of scholarly communication are a natural progression of traditional library activity
- 15. Forget ‘research skills’, no scholarly communication skills here https://www.alia.org.au/foundation-knowledge-skills-and- attributes-relevant-information-professionals-working- archives Under (much needed) review
- 16. HLA competencies are much closer to the mark https://www.alia.org.au/sites/default/files/HLA%20Competencies.pdf
- 17. Short report – (limited data!) https://www.johila.org/index.php/Johila/article/view/48
- 18. So what do people do beyond education? Examples of formal training identified • Nature Masterclass https://masterclasses.nature.com/ • CWTS https://www.cwts.nl/ • Coursera courses https://www.coursera.org/ • Creative Commons Certificate https://certificates.creativecommons.org/ • Also - Queensland University of Technology Master’s in Library and Information Studies (no longer available)
- 19. Who is paying? https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2021/service-ceiling/ “We illustrate how the cost of professional development and service is a “service ceiling”, a barrier to inclusion for many in our field, and the implications of this exclusion.”
- 20. No wonder people look to other forms of training
- 21. • We also asked respondents how they were developing a range of skills needed in scholarly communication work – through their formal education, on the job training or self-directed learning (such as additional reading, MOOCs or job shadowing) • Again too much detail to cover now but to give you an overview • Green section – represents those who learnt the skills through formal education = comparatively low, especially on scholarly communication specific skills • If the ‘normal’ route into librarianship is still through formal education and the LIS degree are we setting ourselves up to fail? If these are the roles we see advertised in academic libraries and librarians are not coming into the profession with these skills are we setting ourselves up for a problem? How are librarians developing their scholarly communication skills? 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 Formal education On the job training Self-directed learning Slide from: Sewell, C. (2018). Avoiding Extinction Re-Skilling the 21st Century Academic Librarian [Presentation file]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.25996
- 22. It’s not just money - “time poor” (consistent response)
- 23. Take homes? • Scholarly comms is a muli-complex area and it is not easy to get up to date and stay current • Generally, staff don’t cover the whole range of school comm areas, these are part of a wider set of responsibilities • In some libraries such as health libraries, scholarly communication is having to be absorbed within managing the whole library service • Managers and institutions need to recognise this - Give people time to stay up to date • It would be good to have more formal opportunities too?