OPEN AND EQUITABLE SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS CREATING A MORE INCLUSIVE FUTURE Prepared by Nancy Maron and Rebecca Kennison with Paul Bracke, Nathan Hall, Isaac Gilman, Kara Malenfant, Charlotte Roh, and Yasmeen Shorish OPEN AND EQUITABLE SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS CREATING A MORE INCLUSIVE FUTURE Prepared by Nancy Maron and Rebecca Kennison with Paul Bracke, Nathan Hall, Isaac Gilman, Kara Malenfant, Charlotte Roh, and Yasmeen Shorish Association of College and Research Libraries A division of the American Library Association Chicago, Illinois 2019 Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications: Creating a More Inclusive Future. © 2019 Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. This work is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license CC BY-NC 4.0. Citation: Association of College and Research Libraries. Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications: Creating a More Inclusive Future. Prepared by Nancy Maron and Rebecca Kennison with Paul Bracke, Nathan Hall, Isaac Gilman, Kara Malenfant, Charlotte Roh, and Yasmeen Shorish. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2019. https:// doi.org/10.5860/acrl.1 Association of College & Research Libraries A division of the American Library Association Chicago, Illinois 2019 Contents Foreword .....................................................................................................................................................v Designing an Inclusive Process ..............................................................................................................................v Recognizing All Contributors ..............................................................................................................................vi Collective Responsibility for Change ...................................................................................................................vi Executive Summary ..................................................................................................................................vii Reading This Report ............................................................................................................................................ vii Introduction ...............................................................................................................................................1 Defining Open, Inclusive, and Equitable ...............................................................................................................2 Aiming for Change .................................................................................................................................................5 Situating Research in Practice ................................................................................................................................6 Research Agenda ........................................................................................................................................8 PEOPLE ..................................................................................................................................................................8 Areas of Progress ............................................................................................................................................................. 8 Practical Actions ............................................................................................................................................................. 9 Next Directions for Research .......................................................................................................................................... 9 Embracing Diversity and Inclusion ...............................................................................................................................9 Enhancing representation within academic libraries ................................................................................................10 Creating a broader scholarly communications workforce .......................................................................................11 Improving the Working Lives of People Engaged in Scholarly Communications ................................................11 Creating incentives for participation ...............................................................................................................................12 Understanding the costs of un(der)recognized and un(der)compensated labor ...........................................12 Increasing Awareness Concerning Creators’ Rights .................................................................................................13 Retaining and protecting intellectual rights .................................................................................................................14 Intentionally limiting openness and knowledge sharing ........................................................................................15 CONTENT ............................................................................................................................................................16 Areas of Progress ........................................................................................................................................................... 16 Practical Actions ........................................................................................................................................................... 17 Next Directions for Research ........................................................................................................................................ 17 Rethinking What “Counts” ...........................................................................................................................................18 Addressing implicit and explicit bias ...............................................................................................................................18 Creating metrics built on value: Expanding which values we measure ..............................................................19 Creating More Representative and Open Collections ..............................................................................................20 Ensuring diversity of collections ........................................................................................................................................20 Enacting effective strategies for revisiting copyright ................................................................................................21 SYSTEMS ..............................................................................................................................................................21 Areas of Progress ........................................................................................................................................................... 22 Digital Infrastructure ....................................................................................................................................................22 Sustainability and Business Models .............................................................................................................................24 Practical Actions ........................................................................................................................................................... 24 Next Directions for Research ........................................................................................................................................ 25 Supporting Technological Infrastructure That Is Sustainable ..................................................................................25 Determining the right scale and scope for infrastructure ........................................................................................26 Managing research data and enhancing discovery ...................................................................................................27 Creating Systems That Permit More Access to More People....................................................................................27 Facilitating access for those with disabilities ................................................................................................................27 iii Designing systems that focus on users and audience ...............................................................................................28 Building Mission-Aligned Organizational and Financial Systems .........................................................................29 Building business models to support scholarly communications ........................................................................29 Investing in community-owned infrastructure ............................................................................................................30 Advancing Innovation in Academic Libraries ...........................................................................................................31 Encouraging technological innovation and ongoing development ...................................................................31 Driving transformation within libraries ...........................................................................................................................32 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................33