Striking Up A Conversation, Striking Up A Victory: Engaging Faculty in Scholarly Communication

Abstract

The concepts “open access” and “scholarly communication” have become inseparable from the library landscape. Librarians are increasingly aware of the issues inherent in these concepts, but faculty have been slower to understand their importance. Traditional communications with faculty couldn’t keep pace with evolving trends in scholarly communication, so we created a faculty learning community to generate awareness. This community has been the most successful method of increasing faculty understanding about these issues across our campus.