9:00 - 10:30 AM
Bioscience, Natural Resources & Public Health Library Conference Room
Guests: Salwa Ismail, Chan Li, Sherry Lochhaas, Molly Rose, Patrick Shannon
Recorder: Susan Powell
Facilitator: Brian Quigley
Agenda
Announcements
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Welcome to Salwa Ismail - Guests: Salwa Ismail, Patrick Shannon, Sherry Lochhaas
Patrick & Salwa shared numbers about requests for Elsevier materials thus far
UC Davis model for strategies about sharing with faculty:
Website listing options with one-minute videos for plugins (recommendation to install all plugins to get best coverage)
Offered drop-in sessions
Ideas & feedback:
Researchers are actively discussing on Twitter, so do more interventions there
There are parallel discussions among researchers about boycotting publishing with, serving on editorial boards of, and reviewing for Elsevier journals, and it might be good for Library to have official stance
Do an Ask Me Anything on Reddit?
Agreement that double-checking for OA copies is a good thing to do
Faculty feedback: delay of 2-3 days feels too long
It seems to be unclear to researchers that only 2019 eJournals are affected - Researcher assumption seems to be that if they run into any issue with any Elsevier product, it must be related to the cancellation
Put alert banner on all library pages
Reach out to faculty committee meetings and have leadership team provide talking points to liaisons (including what's happening now and reviewing/publishing)
How do we address SciHub? Faculty are clearly using it. But in using it, Library loses out on information.
Grad students are good target audience for plugin use.
Tableau Library Dashboards feedback - Guests: Chan Li, Molly Rose
Review of what has been published so far (several dashboards) and the feedback received
Feedback and new ideas on dashboard development
Discussion of plan for collection use data analysis and visualization
E-journals: Usage over time, aggregated by publisher, cost per use, how articles are being used and which years of articles are being accessed, more recent data
Molly shared some samples of visualizations she's been working on of collections at ENVI
Fall instruction coordination
Engineering Dissertation support workshop series will run again this fall. It is focused on Engineering grad students, but is open to students in other disciplines
Make shared calendar again -- Becky will create
MailChimp newsletter will go out August 19
Get workshops on calendar by August 14 to get on both calendar handout and MailChimp
A-Z Databases categories - L. Ngo
New materials properties database was acquired that doesn't really fit into any existing database type categories
There is no process for renaming/creating new categories
Proposed: Standard process for making category type changes to the Databases A-Z List, plus three new category proposals ("Materials Properties", "Research Tools", and "Bioinformatics tools"). Lisa will write up proposal to share with PSC and WAG
Function Council & Committee Representative reports and Expertise Group reports were not heard due to lack of time
Next meeting:
September 5, 2019, 9:00 - 10:30 AM
Bioscience, Natural Resources & Public Health Library Conference Room