SCIG: University of Colorado Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Interest Group

Abstract

In summer 2019, the University of Colorado Libraries created a Scholarly Communication Interest Group (SCIG) to exchange knowledge about and promote services for scholarly communication. This interest group replaced a group that had created and managed an online tutorial titled “Publish, Not Perish,” which was being discontinued. The libraries’ deans and directors called for a new University of Colorado (CU) System–level Scholarly Communication Interest Group that would coordinate cross-campus efforts. The interest group would

• consist of one member per library in the CU System;
• meet regularly beginning at the start of fiscal year 2020 (July 1, 2020);
• assess current needs across campus and set its own goals and agenda; and
• serve as a continuous group that can meet changing needs rather than providing a single output.