Forum Info

April 11, 2018

Full Session: Librarians and Specialists and Coordinators, Oh My!: Labor in Library Publishing

Wednesday, May 23, 11:15am-12:15pm
Room: Heritage Gallery

Presenters: Annie Johnson, Temple University; Emily Gattozzi, Bowling Green State University; Nina Collins, Purdue University

Description: Library publishing looks different depending on the institution. Some libraries have robust publishing programs with multiple staff. Others have only one staff member, who often handles publishing services in addition to other responsibilities such as managing the institutional repository or leading the library’s scholarly communication efforts. As publishing services mature, libraries need to think thoughtfully and critically about who is responsible these services and how they are valuing this labor. In this interactive discussion, we will ask the question: how does staffing and the nature of staff positions dictate library publishing services? Presenters will offer examples from their own institutions and then open it up to the audience. Presenters will also monitor and engage with the Forum Twitter feed in order to ensure that individuals interested in this topic who can’t attend will still be able to participate.

April 11, 2018

Full Session: DOAJ Application Workshop with Editor Judith Barnsby

Wednesday, May 23, 11:15am-12:15pm
Room: Memorial Hall

Presenters: Judith Barnsby, DOAJ; members of the LPC DOAJ Task Force

Description: This hands-on workshop with DOAJ editor Judith Barnsby and members of the LPC DOAJ task force will provide an introduction to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the criteria for inclusion, highlighting common problem areas and misconceptions. The format will include a short panel with Judith and task force members on a few key issues, with live demonstrations and examples, as well as a Q&A session. Judith will also be available throughout the conference for individual consultations.

April 11, 2018

Panel: Approaches to Monograph Publishing

Wednesday, May 23, 9:45-10:45am
Room: Ski-U-Mah Room

How we designed an open access & open source publishing workflow for research output of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

Dylan Degeling, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

Description: From 2012 to 2015 the PublishingLab of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) developed a research program to create a platform with new tools for open source-publishing that allow publishers in the art- and cultural sector to produce interactive e-publications by themselves.

One of these tools, The Sausage Machine, allows people to create a pdf, eBook, and web-publication from a simple manuscript. The results, including the manuscript, are deposited into the institutional repository and published the website. When any of the files or the template that is used for styling the publications is edited, the Sausage Machine automatically applies these changes to all the files that it has created in the past.

In 2016 the Library of the HvA and ThePublishingLab collaborated to develop a publishing workflow based on the Sausage Machine. The aim of this workflow was to allow researchers to more easily publish their manuscripts under an open access license, widen the reach of the publications by providing more than one file-format, and to create an alternative publishing route with the library at its centre instead of an external publisher.
This tool, being the hands of the library itself, makes it possible to continuously tweak it, add new features, and, through experience, automatise more and more of the publishing process. In 2017 this workflow was implemented and tested, allowing the HvA to come closer to its goal of going a 100% open access.

This panel presentation will be about: what we learned during the development process, what others can take away from it, the function of open source in the library of the HvA, and the publishing workflow itself.

An Open-Access Triple Triumph: Collaborating at Syracuse University Libraries

Amanda Page, Syracuse University Libraries

Description: In the summer 2017, Syracuse University Libraries took on an ad hoc publishing project, entitled Triple Triumph: Three Women in Medicine. What began as a simple faculty question on copyright blossomed into a full-fledged library publishing project. Selected for Syracuse Unbound—a nascent open-access imprint of Syracuse University Libraries and Syracuse University Press—it was produced as a multiple-format, accessible, and openly licensed book in an effort to share the true story of three female physicians as widely as possible. In this case study, we will discuss how Triple Triumph came to be published, and share internal workflows and project management patterns from beginning to current state. You will be walked through the rights, preservation, accessibility, and technology infrastructures, as well as project considerations and collaborations. The end of the discussion will be on the selection process: why this story was chosen for Syracuse Unbound, the value of the work, and inclusion of data points and the publication’s impact.

New Directions in Open Scholarship: From Journals to Monographs – a Use Case

Rosarie Coughlan, Queen’s University

Description: Since 2002, Queen’s University Library has maintained a Journal Hosting Services supporting a vibrant community of faculty and student journal and conference publications. Supporting an ongoing culture of ‘openness’ across the research and scholarly ecosystem that seeks to facilitate and promote easy and barrier-free dissemination to the widest possible audience for the advancement of research and the benefit of society, we are now expanding our publishing support portfolio to include the hosting of open monographs.

This practical presentation will explore a pilot initiative (currently being rolled out) to establish a new open monograph hosting service at Queen’s, including:

• Lessons in project management: a lived experience
• Building a new service: balancing the needs and wants of authors, editors, readers and the Library
• Open Monographs Press as a platform for publishing open Monographs – perspectives from the editor and the Library
• Developing an outreach program to attract new publishers on campus
• Successes and lessons learned for the future
• What’s in a service level agreement
• Ideas for the future

 

April 10, 2018

Full Session: What’s Your (Business) Plan? How to Move your Library Publishing Service Forward Strategically

Wednesday, May 23, 9:45-10:45am
Room: Heritage Gallery

Presenters: Kate McCready, Emma Molls, Shane Nackerud, and Laureen Boutang, University of Minnesota

Description: Over the last quarter of a century, our institutions began library publishing operations through thoughtfulness, but also through a lot of experimentation. Many of our service “offerings” are crafted and shaped on the fly to meet the needs of a single request. Other services came about because our existing services (data management, repository services, or digital humanities) didn’t have the right tools to meet the needs of the requests. But what happens when the demand for those specialized services starts increasing? How can we ensure that we are getting high quality, well developed proposals for new (and converted) publications? How can we be sure that the efforts we make to create publications are efficient, and replicable? As our publications, and our services, gain more attention, and as the open access movement is gaining more traction, there is an increased need to formalize our projects into programs.
Through short discussion sessions, the University of Minnesota’s Publishing Team will go through the process of developing a business and service model plan. We will discuss setting principles, identifying a process for accepting proposals, determining team member roles, and what supporting committees are needed. We will also examine the financial aspect of a business plan and service model and the questions you need to ask at your institution to move your planning forward.

April 10, 2018

Full Session: Iterating the Ethical Framework for Library Publishing: A Working Session

Wednesday, May 23, 9:45-10:45am
Room: Memorial Hall

Presenters: Joshua Neds-Fox, Wayne State University; Charlotte Roh, University of San Francisco

Description: Rising organically from plenary sessions at the 2017 Library Publishing Forum, and with input from the full membership, a broad task force spent the better part of the year drafting an Ethical Framework for Library Publishing, which was released to LPC members and Forum attendees in draft form in May. This working session will give attendees the opportunity to give feedback on the current draft and contribute ideas for the next iteration of the framework. Following a brief introduction to the Framework, attendees will do generative thinking to address gaps in and future directions for the framework, fleshing these out in breakout groups.

April 10, 2018

Full Session: A Statewide Solution for Libraries Supporting Self-Publishing

Tuesday, May 22, 4:00-5:00pm
Room: Ski-U-Mah Room

Presenters: Valerie Horton and Matt Lee, Minitex; Shane Nackerud, University of Minnesota Libraries

Description: Bowker reported there were 786,935 self-published ISBN’s registered in 2016. The Minnesota library community decided it was time for libraries to address this creative outpouring at a statewide level. An innovative library partnership of academic, public, and a consortia joined together to launch a book creation system (Minnesota Library Publishing Project) and a discovery system (MN Writes MN Reads). Working with a statewide consortia, Minitex, this unique partnership of academic and public Minnesota libraries provides leadership in managing the self-publishing phenomena. The academic community has funded a geolocated, fully-functional version of Pressbooks at no cost to every author in the state. We have also created a large, active community-of-interest to share training, information, and tools. The public library community has launched MN Writes MN Reads, an online collection of self-published titles from MN authors that are available in library catalog’s statewide. This program will highlight what we have learned in attempting to manage author-support and providing access to self-published titles in libraries at a statewide level.

April 10, 2018

Full Session: Approaches to Tracking the Impacts of Library- and Press-Published Monographs

Tuesday, May 22, 4:00-5:00pm
Room: Heritage Gallery

Presenters: Stacy Konkiel, Altmetric; Kevin Hawkins, University of North Texas; Sarah McKee, Emory University

Description: Project Meerkat, TOME (previously OAMPI), and Altmetric share a goal of tracking the impacts of monographs. Understanding the online influence of research has clear implications for engagement; for author, reviewer, and editor recruitment; and for monograph reach and sales. In a panel format, the participants will discuss approaches to tracking monographs’ influence in ways that benefit library and press publishing programs and their authors.

Project Meerkat seeks to gather a diverse community of stakeholders to jointly develop governance, sustainability, and ethical frameworks for how usage data is gathered, analyzed, and shared, building upon the NISO Privacy Principles and taking scholarly monographs as a starting point. It envisions as Publishing Analytics Data Alliance that will provide its member organizations with a shared code of practice and joint governance of usage data.

TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) is a joint initiative through which institutions commit to making grants available for faculty to publish open access monographs. 13 institutions have each pledged to make three grants of around $15,000 available for five years. An Impact Advisory Working Group has been established to evaluate the success of the project with a particular focus on tracking usage and engagement with the monographs supported by the initiative.

Altmetric is a data science company that tracks the online attention surrounding many research formats, including monographs. We will discuss trends in attention data for the 2 million monographs and book chapters we currently track. We will also share challenges we have faced in accurately and comprehensively tracking attention relevant to presses and their authors (e.g. mentions of books in syllabi).

April 10, 2018

Full Session: DigitalCommons Users Discuss the bepress Acquisition

Tuesday, May 22, 4:00-5:00pm
Room: Memorial Hall

Presenters: Paul Royster, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Roger Weaver, Missouri Science and Technical University; Marilyn Billings, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Phillip Fitzsimmons, Southwest Oklahoma State University; Terri Fishel, Macalester College

Description: Since the acquisition of the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) by Elsevier last summer, there has been much discussion online, in listserves, and elsewhere about what that development means for the future of open access and scholarly communications. The people most directly affected are the users of the bepress DigitalCommons repository hosting service. Some have recoiled in horror at the new ownership situation, others are waiting to see what happens next. This is a panel discussion by current users concerning what they see in the road ahead, including what they regard as essential services, possible options, functionality requirements, and necessary safeguards.

April 10, 2018

Full Session: Extending and Measuring Impact

Tuesday, May 22, 2:30-3:30pm
Room: Ski-U-Mah Room

Presenters: Elizabeth Scarpelli, Director, University of Cincinnati Press; Jason Colman, Director, Michigan Publishing Services, University of Michigan Library; John W. Warren, Director, George Mason University Press/Mason Publishing

Description: This session centers on how to develop strategic goals and priorities with impact in mind, and how to identify and implement impact measures and assessments that are appropriate to your organization. We’ll learn how to align the goals of your library publishing organization or university press to your university’s strategic goals. We’ll examine strategies for increasing diversity and inclusion that are likewise aligned with library and university initiatives. We’ll demonstrate how impact can be extended through strategic thinking, the use of analytical tools, and creative methods. This session distills many of the lessons provided in the Library Publishing Curriculum module on Impact and is informed by a wide spectrum of library-based publishing programs. As library publishers, we seek to increase and measure the impact of our publishing programs not only to demonstrate the value our programs add to the library, the university, and the wider community, but to ensure that our portfolios and publications are meaningful and contribute to the advancement of scholarship.

Attendees will learn to:
• Strategically develop and evaluate goals and priorities for a library publishing program designed to increase impact, aligned with the strategic priorities of the university and university library, that are measurable and actionable
• Build inclusive engagement strategies that foster diversity in both authors and audiences
• Identify the range of available impact measures, recognize the merits and weaknesses of each, and selectively apply relevant measures to evaluate a specific publishing program, platform, or individual publication

April 10, 2018

Panel: The Editorial Side

Tuesday, May 22, 2:30-3:30pm
Room: Heritage Gallery

Think Like an Editor

Patrick Hogan, American Library Association

Description: Library publishing initiatives offer library expertise in digital formats, institutional repositories, and metadata in order to create access to the institution’s scholarship. Simply publicizing the service to faculty, researchers, or students, however, may not be enough. While digital workflows and open access break from publishing tradition, the challenge of obtaining compelling content remains constant. In a traditional publishing operation, the acquisitions editor proactively recruits writers, coordinates with production and marketing, and develops positive author relationships along the way. Relegating that role risks a lack of cohesion or of content itself. Editorial plans, schedules, and strategic initiatives drive an editor’s work. Communication is central, and it’s not so different than the outreach of librarians to their university communities. Patrick Hogan will speak from 20+ years experience as an editor with the American Library Association and with professional/trade business books. By thinking like editors, library publishers can adapt traditional publisher practices to direct library publishing resources toward delivering the greatest value and meeting the program’s goals.

The Pain of Peer-Review for a Small Press

Amy Filiatreau, Lynn University

Description: This presentation will be a warts-and-all confessional about how a small press fought (and fought, and fought some more) to implement a rigorous peer-review process for our books.

The Lynn University Digital Press is tiny. We publish iBooks written by faculty that are used as textbooks for our students, given to them for free. The press, a part of the library, has only one full-time employee. There is very little infrastructure or administrative help. So how does a small press do peer-review?

The answer is: painfully.

It was certainly a learning process, with little help out there from vendors or partners. Over the past two years we have piloted peer-review in fits and starts, and finally have hammered out a somewhat successful program for rigorous peer-review. The presentation will show how we’ve done it: how we tried to hire a company to help us (that tactic failed), how we chose our pilot books for review, chose reviewers, requested their input, organized the responses, and more. I will share what worked, and what definitely did not. I will also propose some ways that small presses can work with one another to streamline peer-review.

Support for Multilingual Journals using Open Journal Systems 

Camille Thomas and Jessica Kirschner, Texas Tech University; Vanessa Gabler and Timothy Deliyannides, University of Pittsburgh

Description: In open access publishing, the theoretical global reach of research is not enough. This study will focus on how language affects the process of open access journal publishing at two public research institutions. This study includes cases from Texas Tech University Libraries and University of Pittsburgh Libraries.