94th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

February 02 - 06, 2014

The open access and open data movements received a big push this past year with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issuing a directive, titled “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research”, that requires federal agencies to develop policies for making data and publications resulting from federally funded research openly available. By the ASLI meeting, federal research funding agencies should have announced their plans in response to this directive. Other sectors of the academic community, in particular publishers and libraries, are actively promoting alternatives that would help agencies address the OSTP requirement. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has put forward the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS) as a way for publishers to lead this effort, while academic libraries and universities have organized a plan called the Shared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE), which would promote universities as the primary component of the open access and open data ecosystem. This panel will engage the ASLI community in a discussion of these various initiatives. Panelists will represent the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, The American Meteorological Society, and more, and will present activities and plans taking place relevant to their respective organizations' responses to the OSTP directive.

Digital Preservation, or the act of preserving and providing access to to digital objects over long periods of time is a growing concern across disciplinary boundaries. This panel will seek to bring together librarians from multiple vantage points to examine institutional reactions and plans of action for dealing with digital preservation. Copyright and legal issues, persistent identifiers, and technological discussions will be some of the topics discussed, with an eye to helping librarians advocate for best practices in this new frontier.

Join us while ASLI holds a participatory discussion on the role of libraries in the metrics and assessment environment. The discussion will feature questions such as: Has your library adopted any Research information Management systems to track your faculty's scholarly output? What "metrics" is your library providing to decision makers? Where do you see opportunities for your library to engage in the wider conversation about metrics and assessment? With changes in the way hiring and tenure decisions are being made across institutions, librarians are now being called to provide additional services to scientists, staff and administrators. This panel will look at new innovations to the tenure process, including advanced bibliometrics the use of new statistics such as altmetrics. This panel will also look at the rise of Research Networking systems such as VIVO and Harvard Profiles, and their use in the tenure process as well as in the greater research ecosystem.

This session will feature a participatory roundtable discussions on topics including eBooks, emerging technologies, marketing/ outreach, and scholarly communication/ publishing.