The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) have published a guide to "Developing a Scholarly Communication Program in Your Library." The guide provides background information and outlines steps for setting up a scholarly communication program at a library and on the campus.
Scholarly communication initiatives can take many forms and focus on different issues, such as the University of California's innovative recruitment of faculty publications into its eScholarship Repository, the University of Minnesota's author's rights education program, or SPARC's student-focused "Right to Research" campaign. Whatever the issues particularly relevant to an institution, librarians can engage faculty members, students, and administrators to make a significant impact on the scholarly landscape.
This online guide offers both generic tools one can adapt locally under a Creative Commons license and examples of how these tools have been implemented at other schools. It provides help at your point of need, and leverages the expertise and experience of library colleagues everywhere.
The guide is authored by Kris Fowler, Mathematics Librarian and Physical Sciences & Engineering Library Collections Coordinator at the University of Minnesota; Gail Persily, Director of Education and Public Services and Associate Director of the Center for Instructional Technology at the University of California; and Jim Stemper, Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of Minnesota. It is freely available online from the ARL-ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication at http://www.arl.org/sc/institute/fair/scprog/.
