Category: SLA 2022 Annual Conference – “Source Forward”

This year’s Physics Roundtable will bring together librarians from different institutions to discuss transformative agreements in STEM disciplines. Following a brief introduction to transformative agreements, the session will focus on their implementation and outreach at the institutions, i.e. what are the best ways to advertise to the authors who can benefit from covered article processing charges (APCs). With various open access mandates/policies at the funder and institutional levels, we expect that many colleagues are hearing about different “flavors” of transformative agreements through their organizations or consortiums. As the PAM Industry Roundtable will be looking at such discussions with publishers, this beginner to intermediate level session will complement it by providing some tips for effective outreach. With an hour-long session, we hope to leave at least 20 minutes for attendees to share their perspectives.

Questions? Contact Sarah Siddiqui and JonLuc Christensen.

This year, your Astronomy moderators (Jenny Novacescu and Lance Utley) are putting together a panel session of observatory librarians to address open astronomy issues, that have a direct impact on library subscription costs and collections, research services, and support for astronomy departments.

Presentations will cover: developments in Open Access; new features and content at ADS; and upcoming mission, instrumentation, and policy initiatives underway. The audience will engage the panelists in a Q&A session to conclude this roundtable.

Attendees can expect to gain a deeper understanding of the pros and cons of various types of Open Access and gain insight into how to use SMD topical expansion, RORs, and citation formatting in ADS. The planning and resources required to comply with NASA SMD Policy Document SPD-41 will also be covered.

This year’s Industry Partner Roundtable (formerly Vendor Roundtable) will feature a lively, plenary style discussion on any issues that librarians have encountered related to open access transformative publishing. This will include read and publish and subscribe to open agreements.  Representatives from scientific publishers will be available to respond to issues raised.  If you have any specific questions that you would like to suggest, please feel free to reach out to the moderators.  

In addition, Jenny Hart and Donna Thompson will present a short summary of their survey on the use of object identifiers in PAM subject publishing. 

We are still working on recruiting speakers, so please reach out to us if you have any suggestions.  

Jenny Hart (hartj@uchicago.edu) and Donna Thompson (dthompson@cfa.harvard.edu)

This session will focus on the engagement strategies for collaborative work between librarians and mathematicians. The session will help explore the depth and breadth of these collaborations and provide attendees with examples of the many different ways mathematics and libraries can work together. The open roundtable discussion time will provide librarians with the opportunity to learn from each other and share potential collaboration methods and how to better connect. The session is for current mathematics librarians and liaisons; librarians who support STEM disciplines; and librarians interested in learning new engagement strategies.

Questions? Contact Sam Hansen and Anya C. Bartelmann.