Abstracts
Abstract
Community-based research often involves communities working in partnership with academic researchers to address issues and problems that the community has raised. Much of this work results in diverse publicly available materials that strive to inform public policy, strengthen funding proposals, empower community members, and advance social change. This article reports on a recent qualitative study exploring the role of institutional repositories in disseminating and preserving these community-based research products, informed by the perspectives, experiences, and motivations of academics involved in this work. Interviews with faculty members and university administrators at Canadian post-secondary institutions suggest that there is a widespread lack of awareness about ways that institutional repository services can leverage the impact and reach of public-facing work generated through these collaborations. Furthermore, a survey of Canadian scholarly communications librarians indicates that libraries do limited outreach to faculty members and administrators engaged in community-based research to promote these services. This article suggests ways that academic libraries can extend outreach strategies to bridge this observed gap between repository services and the dissemination and preservation of community-based research products directly informed by input from research participants. Doing so can advance widespread institutional commitments to community engagement and open science practices to benefit the public good.
Keywords:
- community-based research,
- scholarly communications,
- institutional repositories,
- library outreach,
- open science,
- knowledge democracy
Résumé
La recherche communautaire est souvent le fruit d’un partenariat entre les communautés et les chercheurs universitaires afin d’aborder des enjeux et des problèmes soulevés par la communauté. Une grande partie de ce travail se traduit par l’élaboration en collaboration de documents diversifiés, accessibles au public, qui visent à informer les politiques publiques, à renforcer les propositions de financement, à soutenir les objectifs des membres de la communauté et à faire progresser le changement social. Cet article rend compte d’une récente étude multiméthode explorant le rôle des dépôts institutionnels dans la diffusion et la préservation de ces produits de recherche communautaires, en s’appuyant sur les perspectives, les expériences et les motivations des universitaires impliqués dans ces travaux. Les entretiens avec les membres du corps professoral et les administrateurs universitaires des établissements postsecondaires canadiens révèlent une méconnaissance généralisée de la manière dont les services de dépôt institutionnel peuvent accroître l’impact et la portée des travaux publics générés par ces collaborations. De plus, un sondage auprès des bibliothécaires canadiens responsables pour la communication savante montre que les bibliothèques ne semblent pas promouvoir suffisamment ces services auprès des membres du corps professoral et des administrateurs engagés dans la recherche communautaire. En s’appuyant sur les contributions des participants à la recherche, cet article suggère des moyens par lesquels les bibliothèques universitaires peuvent étendre leurs stratégies de sensibilisation afin de combler le fossé observé entre les services de dépôt et la diffusion et la préservation des produits de la recherche communautaire. Ce faisant, elles peuvent faire progresser l’engagement institutionnel généralisé en faveur de l'engagement communautaire et des pratiques de science ouverte au profit du bien public.
Mots-clés :
- recherche communautaire,
- communication savante,
- dépôts institutionnels,
- sensibilisation,
- science ouverte,
- démocratie du savoir
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