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Scholarly Communication Committee

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The Scholarly Communications Committee was created in 2013 by the ALL-SIS Executive Board, as a result of the Scholarly Communication Task Force Report. The Task Force Report recognized the growing role of law libraries in assisting law schools and faculty with their scholarly communication needs. The level of involvement varies across schools and libraries, and can include supporting scholarship, providing information about author rights and journal submissions, maintaining author profiles and bibliographies, maintaining and promoting institutional repositories, and collecting scholarly impact data. In order to assist libraries and librarians taking on these roles, the Task Force recommended creation of a new standing committee to identify scholarly communication issues in the legal academy and libraries, provide scholarly communications resources, and to connect and collaborate with other ³ÉÈËÊÓÆµand external groups on scholarly communications issues. This Committee is responsible for maintaining such resources as the , actively contributing to the ALL-SIS Scholarly Communications Forum, and facilitating programming such as Coffee Chats on scholarly communications topics.