The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Organization of Scholarly Communication Services, SPEC Kit 332, which explores how research institutions are currently organising staff to support scholarly communication services, and whether their organisational structures have changed since 2007, when member libraries were surveyed about their scholarly communication education initiatives.
This SPEC Kit covers who leads scholarly communication efforts inside and outside the library, the scholarly communication related services that are offered to researchers, and which staff support those services. The publication also looks at how the library measures the success of its scholarly communication services, including demonstrable outcomes of these services.
The SPEC Kit includes position descriptions for library leaders of scholarly communication efforts, charges for SC committees, organisation charts, descriptions of SC services, assessment tools, open access policies, and SC resolutions.
