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Scholarly Communication and Management Program

The Scholarly Communication and Management Program (SCAMP) is a campuswide program that facilitates collaboration and a community dialogue on a wide range of scholarly communication issues that impact teaching and research (the changing nature of scholarship in a digital environment; economics of scholarly publishing; preservation of digital assets; intellectual property rights, etc.). SCAMP sponsors programs, forums, and initiatives that reflect the varying needs of our diverse academic community and serves as a clearinghouse for appropriate information and resources.



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UCI Libraries is providing leadership by offering a forum and facilitating campus discussions on these evolving issues. Through collaboration and a community dialogue, we can explore these issues, raise awareness, develop local solutions, and potentially influence the course of scholarly communication on campus.

UCI Libraries' Response and Role

The UCI Libraries serves as a major national knowledge center, and is recognized as an essential information resource and clearinghouse for the UCI campus. The Libraries can play a key role in assisting the UCI academic community to address many of the scholarly communication issues that we face. And it participates in several national nonprofit organizations that promote innovations in scholarly communication: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Consortium (SPARC), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), and the National Institutes of Health, which in April 2008 issued new mandates for all funded research.

SCAMP: Scholarly Communication and Management Program

Some of the specific activities that the UCI Scholarly Communication Program will sponsor, promote, and explore are:

  • Forums and programs about broad-based initiatives, such as the Open Archives Initiative.
  • Issues of concern to the entire academic community, such as preservation and access to electronic educational records.
  • Informal meetings among UCI faculty who serve as editorial board members or faculty who are developing new forms of scholarship.
  • UCI initiatives to build an institutional repository of scholarly work in electronic formats and selectively digitize and preserve UCI administrative records of permanent historical significance.

UC-based priorities are articulated on the Scholarly Communications at the University of California website.
 
The University of California has actively engaged in the discourse about Scholarly Communication and its collective work is captured by the summary of issues described by University of California, Office of Scholarly Communication. As members of the University of California, you are encouraged to follow these trends, and take appropriate action on the issues that affect you as a scholar, researcher, and student.