![]() The author will then discuss the survey developed to assess the scholarly communication needs of UF faculty and staff and how the results of that survey may be used to plan and implement a scholarly communication program for the UF/IFAS cooperative extension offices.Ībstract Since achieving statehood in 1991, Armenia has faced major economic and political obstacles which have significantly affected the nation’s research libraries. In this chapter, the author will review the challenges inherent to delivering library services to cooperative extension offices and describe why scholarly communication training should be part of those services. To determine how to best address this need, the Scholarly Communications Librarian, with the assistance of one of the agricultural librarians, assessed the scholarly communication needs of faculty and staff working in the extension offices and to plan for the library’s delivery of educational services. However, there is no mechanism to deliver this type of training and information to UF researchers who primarily work off-campus in the State of Florida’s sixty-seven county extension offices and thirteen Research and Education Centers (RECs). Faculty researchers from the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) and cooperative extension offices indicated a high need for education and training on copyright and open access and the impact of these issues on their own scholarship as well as the public education and outreach activities conducted by the extension offices. The trend at most university libraries has been to dedicate significant funding, time and human resources to the promotion of scholarly communication through on-campus service and outreach.
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