aserl-collection-strategy Mailing List: FW: Library Partnership Rating website is live

[John Burger, ASERL (jburger]

ASERL Friends:

I am pleased to share the following announcement about the launch of the 
Library Partnership Rating website -- 
https://library-partnership-rating.pubpub.org/ -- formed by two librarians with 
roots in our community.  The LPR site is in its nascent stage but hopefully 
provides useful information as you consider future purchasing/licensing 
decisions, with plans for much future growth.

Please share with others in your library who would benefit from learning about 
this new program.

Rachel and Robin are happy to receive your feedback – their contact information 
is below – and will be presenting at the Charleston Conference as well.


Kind regards,

--j.e.b.

John Burger, Executive Director
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)
540 Asbury Circle, #316
Atlanta, Georgia  30322

404-218-4207 -- cellular


From: Sinn, Robin N [LIB] <rsinn [at] IASTATE.EDU>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2024 11:47 AM
To: John Burger, ASERL <jburger [at] aserl.org>
Cc: Rachel Caldwell <rcaldwell [at] umass.edu>
Subject: Library Partnership Rating website is live



Hello ASERL,



We’re excited to announce that the Library Partnership 
Rating<https://library-partnership-rating.pubpub.org/> website is live, with 
ratings<https://library-partnership-rating.pubpub.org/publisher-ratings> 
available for nine initial publishers. If you were with ASERL in 2020, perhaps 
you caught Rachel’s presentation<https://vimeo.com/468941765> about the first 
iteration of what is now LPR.

Library Partnership Rating (LPR) attempts to answer the question, How do a 
publisher’s practices align with the values of the library profession?

OUR PROCESS

  *   Librarians evaluate journal publisher practices for alignment with select 
library values using the 
<https://library-partnership-rating.pubpub.org/lp-rubric> LP 
Rubric<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18b79CMwyW_H04ucsB7QnRQAO5i1ln--Olgr41z9o-N0/edit?usp=sharing>
 and publicly available information. A journal publisher earns a score based on 
their practices. Librarians can use that score or any subset of scores from the 
rubric to inform their decisions about investing library resources.
  *   Publishers thus scored will soon be able to augment this information by 
completing the LPR Publisher 
Questionnaire<https://library-partnership-rating.pubpub.org/publisher-questionnaire>.
 That information will be posted alongside the ratings, to present a more 
complete picture of the publisher’s practices, opportunities, and challenges.

LPR is possible only because of the many 
individuals<https://library-partnership-rating.pubpub.org/people> who offered 
us their time and expertise as advisory council members, reviewers, and 
scorers. We thank them for their support in this effort.

WANT TO BE INVOVLED?

Please let us know if you’d like to 
participate<https://library-partnership-rating.pubpub.org/call-for-participation>
 in LPR. Librarians interested in participating can become scorers. Publishers 
can request to be scored. Please look through our presentations and 
publications<https://osf.io/zb9g6/wiki/Presentations%20and%20Publications/> if 
you’re interested in more background information.

We hope this is a useful resource and starts many conversations between 
librarians and publishers. Let us know what you think.

Rachel Caldwell                      Robin N Sinn
rcaldwell [at] umass.edu             <mailto:rcaldwell [at] umass.edu> rsinn 
[at] iastate.edu<mailto:rsinn [at] iastate.edu>
(formerly at U-Tennessee)      (formerly at Johns Hopkins)


Robin N Sinn | Director, Collections & Open Strategies CTS
she,hers
Iowa State University |University Library
202 Parks Library
701 Morrill Rd
Ames, IA 50011-2011
515.294.3311
rsinn [at] iastate.edu<mailto:rsinn [at] iastate.edu>
www.lib.iastate.edu<http://www.lib.iastate.edu/>
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7609-9594