CRIG Forum Day #2: SOS: Selling Open Scholarship
Channel: CAVAL
Date: 2021-06-28

Em Johnson, Research Services Librarian, Swinburne University of Technology: 

Supporting Open Scholarship at Swinburne: Swinburne Research Bank and the library’s dispersed service/content management model:
Articulating, advocating, and supporting open scholarship in context to research publishing and measurement is challenging, especially when resources are lean. Em’s experiences with Swinburne Research Bank, and the Library’s journey towards supporting open scholarship, reflect this. Em will take the opportunity to take a breath, look back, present her story, and show you how Swinburne are meeting these challenges.

Eleanor Colla, Program Manager, Scholarly Development (Research), The University of Melbourne

Librarian /laɪˈbreəriən/ noun
the language spoken by Librarians
"no, I'm not fluent in Librarian"

This presentation is an exploration of Eleanor’s experiences and reflections on the language used to discuss topics such as Open Scholarship (OS). Eleanor will reflect upon how librarians discuss and present information on OS amongst themselves, with others in the institution, and across industries more broadly. This can then be extrapolated out to how librarians use language in other areas and how this influences how they interact with students, academics, and other professional staff.

Steven Chang, Coordinator, Digital Literacies and Open Education, La Trobe University:

OER by stealth: the Trojan horse approach
The rise of open educational resources (OER) presents a powerful enabler for designing learning and teaching programs in a modern and equitable way. However, the difficulties of successful OER outreach remains a challenging barrier to overcome.

This talk will argue that:
1)    An “open access by stealth” approach can help us frame the case for OER to academics and stakeholders in a way that centres their language and points of reference, rather than those of library staff.
2)    Developing a toolkit of evidence-based arguments is crucial to addressing misconceptions and barriers to OER adoption.