Scholarly Communications
Who are you?
Name
Pronouns
Subject[s] of academic interest
Who am I
Maria Aghazarian
she/her
maghaza1@swarthmore.edu
Talk to me about:
- protecting your creative works
- starting up a student journal
- putting an existing journal online
- looking for places to publish your research
- setting yourself up for success in research + academia
What is scholarly communications?
Broad term, may include:
copyright
publishing
open access (OA)
open educational resources (OER)
research data management (RDM)
institutional repositories (IRs)
more or less depending on size of institution + resources
"I was writing because I have an essay coming out in African American Review that has several images accompanying it, and I was wondering if McCabe is set up to make high-resolution reproductions of materials in the collection.
...Alan Lomax and John Lomax's American Ballads and Folk Songs, is from 1934 and is at Underhill. That one I'm nervous about because I don't know if the copyright was renewed. ...Should I try to get my hands on them, or is there another way to figure out the copyright status of a book?"
- English professor
"...wrote an article last summer that we’re presenting at the AERA conference in April. ...We’re planning to refine it (particularly methodology and findings, as we still have some work to do here) and submit to a journal, and we’re seeking help identifying some journal options so that we can keep our audience in mind as we write.
Some possibilities we’ve been exploring are journals relating to early childhood education and curriculum studies. Journals with a more critical bent, too, would be great, but I haven’t been able to find much."
- Educational Studies student
Objectives
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Understand [some of the] barriers to publishing and promotion in academia
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Discuss issues of bias and racism within scholarly publishing
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Learn how librarians can advocate for and assist researchers with these issues
Review: [Homework]
Was there anything from the readings that surprised you?
What are some of the barriers that people of color face in academia?
Discuss: [Homework]
- Being expected to lead diversity initiatives, committees, etc.
- Accomplishments are attributed to racial tokenization rather than hard work, intelligence, etc.
- "Invisible labor"
- "Inclusion tax"
- Managing student resistance to teaching
- Maintaining more mentoring relationships with students than white colleagues
- Adhering to norms, "boundary work," of white-centered spaces,
- Precarious positions (i.e. not tenured) make it difficult to address issues in the workplace
- Receive less research funding
- Less likely to be published
- Less likely to be cited
- More harshly evaluated compared to white colleagues