Forum Info

November 19, 2019

Library Publishing Forum Sponsorship Program

LPC Publishers & Service Providers

Sponsors of the Library Publishing Forum demonstrate their commitment to the emerging community of library publishers, including their many affiliates and partners. By becoming a sponsor, you will reach a highly influential, international audience of potential new partners and clients. Sponsorship dollars help to fund the costs associated with hosting the conference.

The 2021 Library Publishing Forum will be virtual again this year, which increases our expected number of attendees (for 2020 more than twice the number registered for the virtual Forum than we usually accommodate at our in-person conferences).

This year we are pleased to offer two sponsorship levels. See below for the full description.

To participate: Email contact@librarypublishing.org to get started.

Forum Supporter

Amount: $500 and above
Benefits:

  • Logo/link on website and acknowledgement as a Forum Supporter
  • Logo/link on Sched and acknowledgement as a Forum Supporter
  • Slide featuring logo and short blurb to be included in a slideshow that will rotate on presentation screen in Zoom room before the keynotes and presentations
  • Acknowledgement of sponsorship via the LPC Twitter account in the weeks leading up to the Forum (includes creation of a graphic with logo and blurb; tagging of appropriate Twitter handles
  • Option to submit a 1-page PDF for inclusion in a program PDF that will be distributed to attendees and made available on Sched.com
  • One complimentary Forum registration

Forum Sponsor

Amount: $1,000 and above
Benefits:

  • All $500-level benefits.
  • Participation in a Zoom “sponsor hall” (breakout room in Zoom as part of a plenary session during one of the Forum days)

About the Forum

The Library Publishing Forum is an annual conference bringing together representatives from libraries engaged in (or considering) publishing initiatives to define and address major questions and challenges; to identify and document collaborative opportunities; and to strengthen and promote this community of practice. The Forum includes representatives from a broad, international spectrum of academic library backgrounds, as well as groups that collaborate with libraries to publish scholarly works, including publishing vendors, university presses, and scholars. The Forum is sponsored by the Library Publishing Coalition, but you do not need to be a member of the LPC to attend.

Code of Conduct

All participation in the Virtual Library Publishing Forum is subject to the Library Publishing Coalition’s Code of Conduct.

LPForum 2019 Vancouver
September 10, 2019

Registration, Venue & Travel Information 2019

Registration

Registration for the 2019 Library Publishing Forum (May 9-10) is now closed. 

Registration rates

  • Standard: US$300
  • LPC member (limit two per member institution): US$200
  • Students (limited quantity available): US$50
  • Low- and middle-income countries (limited quantity available): US$50

Meals included: Registration includes breakfast, lunch, and morning and afternoon coffee/snack breaks on the 9th and the 10th, as well as a reception (heavy hors d’oeuvres) on the evening of the 9th. Registration for affiliated events (including the OER publishing preconference) is separate. See each event page for registration instructions.

Registration Page

Cancellation & refund policies

  • Registrations cancelled more than 60 days before the event will be refunded 80% of the registration fees.
  • Registrations cancelled less than 60 but more than 30 days before the event will be refunded 50% of the registration fees.
  • Registrations cancelled less than 30 days before the event will not be eligible for a refund.
  • No-shows will not be refunded conference fees.

Registration for affiliated events

Registration for affiliated events (including the May 8th preconference Opening the Classroom: Publishing Open Educational Resources) is separate. Registration instructions are included on each affiliated event page.

Host

The 2018 Forum is hosted by Simon Fraser University.

Venue

SFU Harbour Centre Campus
515 W Hastings St.
Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3
Canada

Travel

When arranging your travel, please refer to the schedule at-a-glance on the Program page.

Flying

The main airport serving Vancouver is Vancouver International Airport (YVR). (If you are planning a departure from YVR, please be aware that passengers flying to the U.S. go through US Customs and Border Control before departure, and this only operational between 4 AM and 8:30 PM.)

If your time is more flexible than your budget, you may wish to consider flying in to Seattle (SEA) or Bellingham (BLI) airports. Flights to these locations are often significantly cheaper than flights to YVR, and regular bus lines connect to Vancouver. The bus trip from Seattle to Vancouver is about 4-5 hours, depending on traffic and border crossing time. Some discount airlines also fly to Abbotsford International Airport (one hour east of Vancouver), but there is no public transportation to Vancouver (car rentals are available).

Directions to Harbour Centre

Driving from Vancouver International Airport (YVR): From the airport, proceed north along the Arthur Laing Bridge to Granville Street. Head north on Granville Street into downtown Vancouver. After crossing the Granville Street Bridge, take the Seymour Street exit and continue north on Seymour until Hastings. Harbour Centre is located on Hastings Street, between Seymour and Richards.

Parking

Limited public parking is available in the Harbour Centre Underground Parkade, 7 days a week from 5:30 a.m. to midnight.

A 600 stall multilevel parkade is located half a block east of Harbour Centre at 450 Cordova Street. The parakade is open Monday to Saturday, 6:00 a.m. to midnight and is closed on Sundays and holidays. Entrance is on Cordova Street.

Further details about parking at Harbour Centre can be found on the SFU Harbour Centre website.

Budget Parking

Diamond Parking (entrance on the west side of Seymour Street, just north of Pender) has a $10/day + tax early bird rate. Note: you must arrive before 9am to secure the early bird discount – and the lot is usually full by 10am!

Public Transit

Major public transit lines–the SeaBus, SkyTrain and WestCoast Express–terminate at Waterfront Station, located in the historic CP Rail Station on Cordova Street, opposite Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre. Transit schedules can be found at www.translink.ca.  Harbour Centre is also within easy walking distance of all street buses with a terminus in downtown Vancouver. Not sure what bus or train to catch? Use the Translink Trip Planner or the very handy Transit real-time app. Fare for travel within the City of Vancouver is $2.75.

Accommodations

When arranging your accommodations, please refer to the schedule at-a-glance on the Program page. Hotels in Vancouver book up quickly, so please make your travel arrangements as early as possible.

Conference Hotel

We have a very small block of rooms (50) reserved at the Delta Hotels Vancouver Downtown Suites, across the street from Harbour Centre. The conference rate (CA$289 , approximately $218 USD), is available for the nights of May 6th through May 10th, and must be booked by April 9, 2019. We do expect the block to fill up much sooner than that, however, so if you are interested in staying at the Delta at the negotiated rate, please book your room as soon as possible. When the block fills, hotel staff may add additional rooms if they are available, but we can’t guarantee it.

Reserve a room at the Delta

Other Hotels

Priced low to high:

Affordability

Vancouver has a reputation for being expensive, and it will be further to travel for some Forum attendees than previous years, but you may be surprised by how affordable it is once you’re there – especially for attendees from the United States. The US dollar is valued significantly higher than the Canadian dollar (as of November 2018), so hotels and other services are likely to be cheaper than they appear at first glance for U.S. attendees. Make sure to pay attention to which currency prices are listed in.

There are a number of suggestions for affordable travel and lodging on this page. The Program Committee has also provided a message board Google Doc for attendees who are interested in finding someone to share a room.

Local Information

The local arrangements team has put together an excellent guide to visiting the Vancouver area. Check it out!

Accessibility

The Library Publishing Coalition is committed to providing an inclusive environment at the Library Publishing Forum, and we will do our best to accommodate requests for special assistance. Detailed information is available on the Accessibility F.A.Q.s page.

September 1, 2019

Program and Call for Proposals

The Call for Proposals for the 2021 Library Publishing Forum is closed.

Program

Monday, May 10

12:00 PM to 1 PM | Keynote address by Elaine L. Westbrooks, Vice Provost of University Libraries and University Librarian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Inequity in scholarly communication: Engaging societies and their researchers in a new sustainable future  [video]

1 PM to 1:15 PM | Break

1:15 PM to 2:15 PM
PANEL
Capturing Open Access Publishing Efforts in the International Journal of Librarianship by the Chinese American Librarians Association: A Case Study  [video] [ slides]
Raymond Pun, Education/Outreach Manager, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University; Grace Liu, Systems Librarian, University of Windsor

Poly Publishing: a choose-your-own ideals in publishing [video]
jaime ding, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

Revising the Library Publishing Curriculum: Values, Progress, and Possibilities
Cheryl E. Ball, Wayne State University Libraries

PANEL
Growing Knowledge in Living Handbooks: The Open-Access Platform PUBLISSO [video]
Gregor Schumann, ZB MED – German National Library of Medicine; Uta Woiwod, ZB MED – German National Library of Medicine

Developing a Press Approach to Omeka S with the Teams Module [video]
Alexander Dryden, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Daniel G. Tracy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

State-of-the-art, non-commercial library publishing at TIB [video] [slides]
Xenia van Edig, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB); Dulip Withanage, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)

2:15 PM to 2:45 PM | Break

2:45 PM to 3:45 PM
FULL SESSION
Working through the Pain: How Library Publishers are Learning from Workflow Documentation [video]
Jennifer Beamer, Claremont Colleges Library; Sonya Betz, University of Alberta Library; Brandon Locke, Educopia Institute; Joshua Neds-Fox, Wayne State University Libraries

FULL SESSION
Transition Partnerships: How Library Publishing Services Can Support Society Publishing Transitions to Open Access Self-Sufficiency [video]
David Scherer, Carnegie Mellon University; Rikk Mulligan, Carnegie Mellon University; Ryan Splenda, Carnegie Mellon University

3:45 PM to 4:00 PM | Break

4:00 PM to 5 PM
PANEL
Publishing Undergraduate Research: From Serendipity to Strategy [video]
Sarah Frankel, University of Louisville; Rachel Howard, University of Louisville

Partnering with Student Journals to Increase Visibility and Discoverability [video]
Omar Dewidar, University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine; Jeanette Hatherill, University of Ottawa Library; Zacharie Saint-Georges, University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine

The Pursuit of High Research Activity Classification: Library/Learning Commons Support for Student Publishing [video]
Linda Cifelli, Kean University; Craig Anderson, Kean University

PANEL
Meet Rebus Ink: An open, values-driven research workflow tool for the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences [video]
Zoe Wake Hyde, Rebus Foundation

Let’s Get Packing: How the Laurier Library partnered with the Bookstore and Printing Services to take over Coursepack Publishing [video]
Lauren Bourdages, Copyright and Reserves Supervisor, Wilfrid Laurier University Library; Melanie Ross, Copyright and Reserves Associate, Wilfrid Laurier University Library

Community Espress-ion: the Espresso Book Machine, public libraries, and the development of creative communities [video] [slides]
Elizabeth Murtough, University College Dublin

Tuesday, May 11

12:00 PM to 1 PM | Invited plenary: No More Apologies: LIS Publishing Reimagined
Speaker list: Megdi Abebe (she/her), Joyce Gabiola (they/m), Sofia Leung (she/her), Kristina Santiago (she/her/ella)

1 PM to 1:15 PM | Break

1:15 PM to 2:15 PM | Plenary: Sponsor Showcase

2:15 PM to 2:45 PM | Break

2:45 PM to 3:45 PM
PANEL
How DOAJ disseminates metadata from your open access journal to key discovery services worldwide  [video] [slides]
Dom Mitchell, Operations Manager, DOAJ

Save our Search: Ways to improve online journal discoverability [video]
Jennifer Kemp, Head of Partnerships at Crossref; Brian Cody, Scholastica CEO and Co-founder

Not a Needle in a Haystack! Increasing Journal Discoverability [video]
rachel lee, eScholarship Publishing, California Digital Library

FULL SESSION
WordPress Wizardry: Building Publications in WordPress [video]
Laureen Boutang, University of Minnesota Libraries; John Barneson, University of Minnesota Libraries; Shane Nackerud, University of Minnesota Libraries; Emma Molls, University of Minnesota Libraries

3:45 PM to 4:00 PM | Break

4:00 PM to 5 PM
PANEL
Taking Open Textbooks Beyond Gen Ed: Building a New OER Publishing Model to Support Career and Vocational Education [video]
Robert Hilliker, Rowan University; Marilyn Ochoa, Middlesex County College

Scribbling in the Margins of the Scholarly Communication Notebook [video] [slides]
Maria Bonn, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign; Josh Bolick, University of Kansas; Will Cross, North Carolina State University

Community, Storytelling, and Good Metadata: Marketing Advice for OER Librarians [video]
Leigh Kinch-Pedrosa, Pressbooks

PANEL
Migration and More: Moving from DigitalCommons 
Laura Baird, Systems & Applications Librarian, Pacific University; Johanna Meetz, Publishing & Repository Services Librarian, The Ohio State University

After the migration: What editors like (and miss) after moving from bepress to OJS [video] [slides]
Kristin Hoffmann, University of Western Ontario; Emily Carlisle-Johnston, University of Western Ontario

A Consortium Approach to Library Publishing Via the Open Journal System and the Texas Digital Library [video]
Taylor Davis-Van Atta, University of Houston; Lea DeForest, Texas Digital Library; Susan Elkins, Sam Houston State University; Bruce Herbert, Texas A&M University; David Lowe, Texas A&M University; Alexa Hight (chair), Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi; Laura Heinz, Texas Tech University; Kristi Park, Texas Digital Library; Denyse Rodgers, Baylor University; Laura Waugh, Texas State University; Justin White, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Amanda Zerangue, Texas Woman’s University; Adrian Shapiro, Texas Woman’s University; Alex Suarez, Texas Digital Library; N. Woodward, Texas Digital Library

Wednesday, May 12

12:00 PM to 1 PM | Invited plenary: Interweaving the golden threads into a publishing service  [video]
Moderator: Reggie Raju, University of Cape Town , South Africa
Panelists: Jill Claassen University of Cape Town; Omo Oaiya, West and Central African Research and Education Network – Nigeria; Caroline Ncube, University of Cape Town; Anna Leonard, University of Namibia

 1 PM to 1:15 PM | Break

1:15 PM to 2:15 PM
FULL SESSION
Promoting justice-forward language in publications: Policies and actions at your press [video]
Press 1: Sarah Muncy, University of Cincinnati Press, Managing Editor; Liz Scarpelli, University of Cincinnati Press, Director
Press 2: Amanda Krause, University of Arizona Press, Editorial, Design, and Production Manager; Kristen Buckles, University of Arizona Press, Editor-in-Chief
Press 3: Kristen Elias Rowley, Editor in Chief, The Ohio State University Press

FULL SESSION
Advancing Library Publishing Infrastructure: An Update on the Next Gen Library Publishing (NGLP) project [video]
Moderator: Catherine Mitchell (CDL)
Presenters: Paul Walk (COAR), Katherine Skinner (Educopia), Zach Davis (Cast Iron Coding), Kristen Ratan (Stratos)

2:15 PM to 2:45 PM | Break

2:45 PM to 3:45 PM
FULL SESSION
The Power of No: Building a Sustainable Publishing Program [slides]
Karen Bjork, Portland State University; Johanna Meetz, The Ohio State University

FULL SESSION
Open Access Outreach Through Black Lives Matter Edit-a-thons: Building a Wikipedia Community of Practice [video]
Melissa Seelye, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University; Matt Martin, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University; Devone Rodrigues, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University; Toni Panlilio, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University

3:45 PM to 4:00 PM | Break

4:00 PM to 5 PM
PANEL
Choosing Formats for Accessible E-books and E-journals: An EPUB3/HTML5 Case Study [video]
Race MoChridhe, Atla

Open Access(ibility): Collaborating with Editors to Ensure Accessible Content [video] [slides]
Josh Cromwell, University of Southern Mississippi

FULL SESSION
Journal Seeks Publisher: How JLSC Imagined, Sought, and Found Its Next Partner [video] [slides]
Jill Cirasella, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; Rebekah Kati, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Wendy C. Robertson, University of Iowa; David Lewis, Emeritus, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis; Daniel Bangert, Digital Repository of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy; Harrison W. Inefuku, Iowa State University

Thursday, May 13

12:00 PM to 1:15 PM | Plenary: Lightning Talks
Adapting Free Tools to New Digital Publishing Uses [video]
Daina Dickman, Sacramento State University; Mya Dosch Sacramento State University

Developing a Bilingual OER: Pursuing Student Translations for an Open Physics Textbook [video]
Moriana M. Garcia, University of Rochester; Kristen Totleben, University of Rochester

Open Editors [video]
Andreas Pacher, TU Wien Bibliothek

Project Open Source Academic Publishing Suite OS-APS) [video] [slides]
Markus Putnings, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), University Library / FAU University Press; Carsten Borchert, SciFlow GmbH; Frederik Eichler, Co-founder, SciFlow GmbH

Revising the Model Publishing Contract for Open Educational Resources [video]
Cheryl E. Ball, Wayne State University Libraries; Joshua Neds-Fox, Wayne State University Libraries

Using the Instructor Guide for Course Journals to support in-class, library-supported student publishing projects [video]
Kate Shuttleworth, Simon Fraser University; Karen Meijer-Kline, Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Using Web Scraping to Enrich Metadata [video] [code]
Joseph Muller, Michigan Publishing

1:15 PM to 1:30 PM | Break

1:30 PM to 2:30 PM
PANEL
Library Publishing and Scholarly Bibliographies: A Case Study [video]
Ally Laird, Penn State University; Angel Peterson, Penn State University

Analyzing the content of the publications of the National Library and Archives of Iran and examining the degree of compatibility of their subjects with the approval of the Publishing Council of the organization: a study of books published between 2009-2019 [video 1 of 2] [video 2 of 2] [slides]
Foroozan Rezaeinia, Publishing Expert in National Library and Archives of Iran; Somaye sadat Hashemi, Reference Librarian at National Library and Archives of Iran

Data For Good: Open Journals @ Appalachian [video]
Agnes Gambill, Appalachian State University

PANEL
‘Opening the Future’ – a new funding model for open-access monographs: introducing an innovative approach to publishing OA books through library membership funding [video]
Martin Paul Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing, Birkbeck (University of London), Open Library of the Humanities, & COPIM

The potential of Library Publishing Services to transform scholarly communication in Ireland [slides w/audio]
Dr. Johannah Duffy, Marino Institute of Education

The Evolving Scholar rethinks the publishing and publication processes [video] [slides]
Frédérique Belliard, Open publishing (open access) advocate and open scholarly communication lead, TU Delft Library; Nicoleta Nastase, Innovation Consultant, TU Delft Open

2:30 PM to 2:45 PM | Break

2:45 PM to 3:45 PM
FULL SESSION
Presenting Preprints: Are Library Publishers the New Facebook? [video]
Lisa Schiff, Associate Director, Publishing, Archives, and Digitization, California Digital Library, University of California; Juan Pablo Alperin, Co-director of the ScholCommLab; Associate Director of Research of the Public Knowledge Project; Assistant Professor in the School of Publishing at Simon Fraser University, Canada; Bruce Caron, Co-Founder, EarthArXiv; Founder, New Media Studio and the New Media Research Institute, Santa Barbara; Martin Paul Eve, Project Lead for Janeway; Co-Director, Open Library of the Humanities; Project Lead for Janeway; Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London; Alex Mendonça, Online Submission & Preprints Coordinator, SciELO Brazil

PANEL
Beyond the “new normal”: a speculative reconsideration of undergraduate publishing [video] [slides]
Dana Ospina, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Developing Open Access Journals using OJS: Best practices maintaining, promoting, and growing your portfolio of student-run academic journals [video]
Gabe Feldstein, Boston College

Adapting Podcasts to a Digital Humanities Practice [video]
Corinne Guimont, Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Virginia Tech: Joe Forte, Digital Humanities Specialist, Virginia Tech

3:45 PM to 4:00 PM | Break

4:00 PM to 5 PM
FULL SESSION
LPC Fellows Forum 2021 [video-Anderson] [video-Boston]
Jody Bailey, LPC Board President (2020-2021) and Head of Scholarly Communications Office, Emory University; Talea Anderson, LPC Fellow (2019-2021) and Scholarly Communication Librarian, Washington State University; A.J. Boston, LPC Fellow (2019-2021) and Scholarly Communication Librarian, Murray State University

FULL SESSION
Long-Term Preservation of Digital Library Publishing Content  [video] [slides-Van Dyck & Wise] [slides-Mulliken]
Craig Van Dyck, outgoing Executive Director, CLOCKSS Archive; Jasmine Mulliken, Stanford University Press; Alicia Wise, incoming Executive Director, CLOCKSS Archive

Friday, May 14

12:00 PM to 1 PM | Keynote address by Kaitlin Thaney, Executive Director, Invest in Open Infrastructure
Opening minds to open infrastructure  [video]

1 PM to 1:15 PM | Break

1:15 PM to 2:15 PM
PANEL
How to cooperate with Sci-Hub and Libgen (if at all) ? [video] [slides/text]
Mikael Böök, IFLA (personal affiliate)

“Transformative Agreements” & Library Publishing: A Short Examination [video] [text]
Dave S. Ghamandi, University of Virginia

FULL SESSION
Advancing Open Access Book Analytics for Library Publishing: Moving from use cases and case studies to next steps
Christina Drummond, Data Trust Program Officer, Educopia Institute / OA Ebook Usage Data Trust; Lara Speicher, Head of Publishing, UCL Press; Charles Watkinson Associate University Librarian for Publishing / Director, University of Michigan Press; Andrew Joseph, Digital Publisher, Wits University Press; Cameron Neylon, Professor of Research Communication, Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University

2:15 PM to 2:45 PM | Break

2:45 PM to 3:45 PM
PANEL
Measuring Impact: Reflecting on University of Michigan Press’ COVID-19 Response [video] [slides]
Emma DiPasquale, Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library

Changing a Library Publishing Program: How the USF Library was able to affectively scale-down library publishing services in the wake of COVID-19 [video]
Jason Boczar, University of South Florida

Learnings from Our First Virtual Book Launch [video]
Laurie Taylor, Senior Director for Library Technology & Digital Strategies, University of Florida: Perry Collins, Copyright & OER Librarian, University of Florida: Chelsea Johnston, Scholarly Publishing & Repository Librarian, University of Florida; Tracy MacKay-Ratliff, LibraryPress@UF Designer and Coordinator, University of Florida

FULL SESSION
Context, not checklists! Workshopping a collaborative, context-driven approach to evaluating journals [pre-workshop video: Reviews: The Journal of Journal Reviews] [rubric] [try out the rubric and provide feedback] [contact the RJJR team] [responses to session comments and feedback]
Matt Ruen, Grand Valley State University; Brianne Selman, University of Winnipeg; Stephanie Towery, Texas State University; Leila Sterman, Montana State University; Joshua Neds-Fox, Wayne State University; Teresa Schultz, University of Nevada, Reno

3:45 PM to 4:00 PM | Break

4:00 PM to 5 PM
PANEL
(Re)defining a library’s journal hosting service: higher expectations, improved support [video]
Mariya Maistrovskaya, University of Toronto Libraries; Priscilla Carmini, University of Toronto Libraries

Enhancing Services to Preserve New Forms of Scholarship [video]
Jonathan Greenberg, NYU Libraries; Karen Hanson, Portico

Growing a sustainable publishing technology service for libraries [video] [slides]
Bart Kawula, Scholars Portal; Kaitlin Newson, Scholars Portal

PANEL
An Update from the DOAJ and the LPC Community Relationship [video]
David Scherer, Carnegie Mellon University; Emma Molls, University of Minnesota; Judith Barnsby, DOAJ

Developing a library-press partnership through team teaching a course in journal publishing [video]
Jeanne Pavy, Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of New Orleans Library; Abram Himelstein, Editor-in-Chief, University of New Orleans Press

Case Study: Publishing Multilingual Open Access International Peer Reviewed Journals [video]
Jill Krefft, Florida International University

About the Forum

The Library Publishing Forum is an annual conference bringing together representatives from libraries engaged in (or considering) publishing initiatives to define and address major questions and challenges; to identify and document collaborative opportunities; and to strengthen and promote this community of practice. The Forum includes representatives from a broad, international spectrum of academic library backgrounds, as well as groups that collaborate with libraries to publish scholarly works, including publishing vendors, university presses, and scholars. The Forum is sponsored by the Library Publishing Coalition, but you do not need to be a member of the LPC to attend.

LPC Forum 2020
September 1, 2019

Registration, Venue & Travel Information 2020

March 31 Update on the 2020 Library Publishing Forum and COVID-19

In light of ongoing developments surrounding COVID-19, including increasing travel restrictions, the Library Publishing Coalition Board and Program Committee have made the difficult decision to cancel the in-person Library Publishing Forum. We feel that the community- and people-centered spirit of the LPC is reflected by this decision to support public health initiatives and maintain the safety of the larger community. We took this step in consultation with our local host, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, to whom we are deeply grateful for their diligent work on behalf of the community of library publishers. 

We will instead be holding a Virtual Library Publishing Forum on May 4-8. Announcements about the Virtual Forum will be made via LPC’s public news list, which you can sign up for on our homepage. 

***We are leaving this page up on this page as a record of our planning for this year. See the main Forum page for information about registering for the Virtual Forum.***

Registration

Registration rates

2020 registration rates are:

  • Standard: US$400
    Check out the LPC membership opportunity for Forum attendees!
  • LPC member (limit two per member institution): US$200
    Contact your voting representative for the code to use when registering.
  • Students (limited quantity available): US$50
  • Low- and middle-income countries (limited quantity available): US$50

The registration deadline for presenters (to have a guaranteed spot) is March 13. General registration is open through April 10.

Note: After keeping Forum registration rates stable for a number of years, we have raised the standard rate from $300 to $400. This is due to the addition of a third day of the Forum, and replaces the separate registration fee for the preconference. We have also added an LPC membership opportunity that allows non-member institutions that register an attendee at the standard rate to apply a portion of their registration fee to a new LPC membership for 2020-21.  For details, see the blog post.

Meals: Registration includes breakfast, lunch, and morning and afternoon coffee/snack breaks on May 4-6, as well as an evening reception (heavy hors d’oeuvres) on Monday and a Med Moth event and small reception on Tuesday. (See the Program page for more information.)
Registration Page

Cancellation & refund policies

  • Registrations cancelled more than 60 days before the event will be refunded 80% of the registration fees.
  • Registrations cancelled less than 60 but more than 30 days before the event will be refunded 50% of the registration fees.
  • Registrations cancelled less than 30 days before the event will not be eligible for a refund.
  • No-shows will not be refunded conference fees.

 

Host

The 2020 Forum is hosted by the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Venue

University of Massachusetts Medical School
Albert Sherman Center
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, MA 01655

Travel

Please see our customized “Welcome to Worcester” Google map for getting around town!

For your convenience, we have set up a Google doc for those interested in sharing a car hire from Logan Airport to Worcester. We provide this posting board to make it easier for you to find colleagues who might share a car hire, but doing so is up to you. We are not able to coordinate transportation for you. Note: After the Forum begins, we will take down this Google doc and put up another to coordinate car hires from the Forum back to Logan Airport.

By Air

There are multiple airports serving Worcester:

Knight’s Airport Limousine Service (508-839-6252 or toll-free 800-822-5456) is based in nearby Shrewsbury, MA, and provides one-way or roundtrip shared van or private shuttle service from all three airports to Worcester area locations. Reservations are required and make sure to book at least 24 hours in advance. Estimated fee is US$55 (one-way). 

Check with each airport for additional ground transportation options to Worcester.  These include:

  • Peter Pan Bus tickets must be purchased in advance online, on the Peter Pan Bus Mobile App, or by calling 1-800-343-9999. Estimated fee from Logan Airport or Green Airport to Union Station in downtown Worcester is $US24 one way.
  • MBTA Silver Line from Logan Airport to South Station (free) and then connecting to the Framingham/Worcester Commuter Rail to Union Station in downtown Worcester (US$12.25 one way or $24.50 roundtrip)
  • Car rentals
  • Uber and Lyft ride apps
  • Taxi (estimated US$100 one way)

By Train or Bus

Union Station in downtown Worcester has regular commuter rail service to and from Boston, MA, with connecting Amtrak service throughout the U.S.  Both Peter Pan and Greyhound offer bus service to Union Station.

By Car

Being centrally located in Massachusetts, Worcester is near several major travel routes:

  • Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90); Interstates I-290; I-190; I-395 and I-495. 
  • Also close to Interstates I-91 and I-95

UMass Medical School is located at 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655. (Directions and campus maps)

Parking

Parking for visitors to UMass Medical School is most convenient in the South Road Garage (campus maps). Valet parking is also available from the entrance to the Remillard Family Pavilion (main hospital entrance).

Public Transit

Locally, the Worcester Regional Transit Authority‘s #24 bus (Belmont Street/Lake Avenue) provides service to the UMass Medical School Campus. Please call the WRTA at 508-791-9782 for the route and schedule.

Additionally, both Red Cab (508-792-9999) and Yellow Cab (508-754-3211) provide taxi services, and Uber and Lyft are available.

More information about Worcester is available at http://www.worcesterma.gov/getting-around-the-city.

Accommodations

Please see our customized “Welcome to Worcester” Google map for locations!

For your convenience, we have set up a Google doc for those interested in sharing rooms. We are providing this posting board to make it easier for LPForum participants to find potential roommates, but doing so is up to you. The Program Committee is not able to help make connections or find accommodations for individuals.

Conference Hotels

The following two hotels are offering group rates for the 2020 Library Publishing Forum. Rates apply from Sunday, May 3, to Thursday, May 7, and rooms must be booked by April 3, 2020. We expect the blocks to fill up early, however, so please book as soon as possible.

  • Residence Inn Worcester, US$149 per night
    (located ~ 0.5 mi from the Albert Sherman Center at UMass Medical School)
    503 Plantation Street
    Worcester, MA
    Tel: 508-753-6300
     Book your group rate at the Residence Inn Worcester
  • Beechwood Hotel, US$172 per night
    (located ~ 0.3 mi from the Albert Sherman Center at UMass Medical School)
    363 Plantation Street
    Worcester, MA
    Guests must call the hotel (800-344-2589 or 508-754-5789) and reference the “Library Publishing Forum” for the group rate.

Other Hotels

The following hotels are located in downtown Worcester, about 5-15 minutes by car (about 2.5 miles) from UMass Medical School. Plans for some shuttle availability from downtown Worcester will be finalized at a later date, with transport scheduled before and after conference hours.

The following hotels are further away; appropriate for those who will be driving.

Additionally, other hotel options in the Worcester area can be found at hotel-rates.com.

Local Information

The UMMS local team has put together an excellent guide to visiting Worcester. Check it out!

Accessibility

The Library Publishing Coalition is committed to providing an inclusive environment at the Library Publishing Forum, and we will do our best to accommodate requests for special assistance. Detailed information is available on the Accessibility F.A.Q.s page.

LPC Forum 2020
September 1, 2019

Accessibility F.A.Q.s

The Library Publishing Coalition is committed to providing an inclusive environment at the Library Publishing Forum, and we will do our best to accommodate requests for assistance. This page describes the accessibility features of the Forum venue to help you make an informed decision about whether the Forum will be accessible for you. Please contact us if your question is not answered here or if the arrangements, as described, are not enough to allow you to attend. We will work with you to the best of our ability to make the Forum accessible.

How do I communicate accessibility needs to Library Publishing Forum organizers?

If you are ready to register for the Forum, please note on the registration form where it states, “Please indicate any accommodations you require to participate fully in the Forum.” Please let us know how we can make the Forum accessible to you.

If you aren’t yet ready to register, or are determining whether attendance is feasible for you, please email us at contact@librarypublishing.org. The earlier we know what kind of support you need to attend, the more likely it is that we will be able to provide it. Please reach out as soon as possible!

Who do I ask if my question is not answered here?

Email contact@librarypublishing.org with questions and accommodation requests.

Will sign language interpretation or captioning be available? What about an induction loop in the meeting rooms?

As a small conference (around 200 people), we do not routinely provide sign language interpretation and other accommodations for hearing impairments. However, we may be able to do so with enough notice! Please reach out to us as early as possible and let us know how we can support your attendance.

Will there be a dedicated lactation space?

Yes! UMASS Medical School has several private lactation spaces. Please let us know if you will require access to these rooms and we will make sure they are available to you.

Will there be a prayer/meditation space available?

Yes! UMASS Medical School’s campus is in close quarters with the UMASS Memorial Health Care facility, and a short walk away from Forum proceedings is a dedicated worship space that has prayer rugs available.

Where can I find information about getting around in Worcester?

Worcester offers assisted public transportation via their PARATRANSIT program. If you plan on taking public transportation while you are in Worcester, please contact them to set up a trip.

What are the taxi and public transport options for getting to the Forum venue?

Locally, the Worcester Regional Transit Authority‘s #24 bus (Belmont Street/Lake Avenue) provides service to the UMass Medical School Campus. Please call the WRTA at 508-791-9782 for the route and schedule.

Additionally, both Red Cab (508-792-9999) and Yellow Cab (508-754-3211) provide taxi services, and Uber and Lyft are available.

More information about Worcester is available at http://www.worcesterma.gov/getting-around-the-city.

Is there accessible parking nearby?

Accessible parking for visitors to UMass Medical School is most convenient in the South Road Garage (campus maps). Valet parking is also available from the entrance to the Remillard Family Pavilion (main hospital entrance).

Who can I ask about accessibility in Worcester?

Please go to the City of Worcester’s Disability Services web page, http://www.worcesterma.gov/disabilities

University of Massachusetts Medical School contact: TBD

Can a volunteer assist me during the Forum?

Yes! We would be happy to match you up with a volunteer. As with other accommodations, the more advance notice we have, the better.

Are the entrances accessible for those with limited mobility?

All entrances to the UMASS Medical School Facilities are on the ground floor and have accessible door widths and automatic-opening capabilities. There are plenty of accessible elevators within the buildings to provide access to Forum proceedings on other floors of the Albert Sherman Center, where most of the Forum proceedings will take place.

What is the Forum space like? Will it be accessible by wheelchair or power scooter?

The majority of the LPC Forum will be held in the recently renovated Albert Sherman Center. This building has brightly lit and wide hallways, accessible entrances, and plenty of elevators. The space where meals will be held will be arranged to allow plenty of room for people using wheelchairs to navigate.

What are the restroom facilities like?

**There are accessible bathrooms located on every floor. Currently there are no designated gender-neutral bathrooms, but we are working with our facilities to provide them for the Forum. Progress on this front has been slow due to code restrictions within our university system.

What are the arrangements for presenters with accessibility needs?

We are happy to support our presenters who have accessibility needs. Please reach out to us as early as possible and let us know how we can support your participation and attendance.

Can I bring my guide dog?

All registered service animals are welcome anywhere on the UMASS Medical School and UMASS Memorial Health Care campus. Currently, emotional support animals need to go through an additional vetting process before being welcomed on campus. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Can I attend the Forum virtually?

We are planning to livestream many sessions via Twitter. Check back from more information about virtual participation.

How much walking or standing will be needed?

All Library Publishing Forum events will include ample seating, and elevators are readily available for transportation to other levels of the Albert Sherman Center, where the Forum will be hosted.

Will speakers and audience members be using a microphone?

Except in very small rooms (under 20 people), we will have microphones for presenters and audience members, and will encourage everyone to use them.

What food service will be provided? Can the Forum accommodate special dietary needs?

We will provide breakfast and lunch each day and heavy hors d’oeuvres at the reception. We always have lots of vegetarian options and regularly provide vegan and gluten-free meals for attendees who request them. We may be able to accommodate other dietary restrictions as well, but please let us know your needs as soon as possible. 

There is also a Cafeteria on site, on the first level of the Albert Sherman Center. It is located directly across from where our dining area will be. They are open 7am-10am for breakfast, 11am-2pm for lunch and regularly offer gluten-free and Halal options. There is also a café that serves Starbucks products open 7am-4pm in the same location.

Will the Forum be a smoke-free environment?

Smoking is not permitted on the UMASS Campus or within buildings. We cannot guarantee a scent-free environment, however.

What if I have a medical emergency or health problem during the Forum?

We are fortunate to be located mere buildings away from UMass Memorial Health Care hospital. Should you be involved in an incident where you or someone else require emergency assistance or medical attention, calling 911 will bring our emergency services to you.

FAQs based on: http://www.sigaccess.org/welcome-to-sigaccess/resources/creating-a-conference-accessibility-faq-page/

LPForum 2019 Vancouver
April 19, 2019

Library Publishing – What’s Our End Game? (Library Publishing Coalition Membership Meeting)

Friday, May 10, 8:30-9:30am
Room: Joseph & Rosalie Segal Centre (1400-1430)

Moderated by: Kate McCready (University of Minnesota), LPC Board President

Description: All LPC members and Forum attendees are welcome to join us for this discussion-based meeting. The last year has been an exciting one in scholarly communications, with funders pushing for open access, universities pushing back against harmful practices by commercial publishers, and libraries investing in community-owned infrastructure. These developments all present opportunities for library publishers, but they also raise some important questions, like…what’s our end game? What is the ultimate goal of library publishing, and what are we hoping to accomplish through our publishing activities? Join your fellow library publishers for a lively discussion to inform our work – both locally and at the field level.

Want to learn more about what’s happening at LPC? Check out our recent update on our progress on our strategic goals.

LPForum 2019 Vancouver
April 17, 2019

Keynote: Community-driven infrastructures leveraged with Semantic Web and Linked Open Data: A strategy for sustainability, visibility and discoverability of scholarly publishing in Open Access

Thursday, May 9, 8:30-9:30am
Room: Joseph & Rosalie Segal Centre (1400-1430)

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Arianna Becerril-García, co-founder and Executive Director of Redalyc.org (Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal)

Description: Latin America, like other regions of the world -especially from the Global South-, has remained outside the so-called “mainstream-science” which has become the traditional and legitimated circulation channel of knowledge. This situation has limited the international visibility and recognition of Latin American research, particularly of Social Sciences and Humanities. At the same time, a very robust ecosystem of science communication has been built in this region, a system that is intrinsically open and scholarly-owned. Nevertheless, an inclusive and global scholarly communication has not been achieved.

So, it is strategic for the research community and libraries to join forces, as well as share and connect individual efforts to build a cooperative infrastructure that guarantees both, publishing is led by the scholarly community and its openness could be sustainable. This strategy must be leveraged with technology to find more effective methods of communication and deployment of the knowledge generated by different regions, disciplinary fields or languages.

On the other hand, scholarly contents’ full-text could be granulated into pieces and relations to compose a structure that expresses the inherent knowledge and to be linked to a wider and unrestricted knowledge cloud, an upper layer of linked knowledge. In order to attain it, a transition to Semantic Technologies needs to be made. The Semantic Web and Linked Open Data could become important instruments to not only achieve a greater dissemination but also a more equitable participation of knowledge generated globally.

The need that arose in Latin America, due to the lack of economic resources, to make science visible has led this region to create cooperative initiatives such as Redalyc, AmeliCA, Latindex or CLACSO. However, this experience can be transferred to other scientific communities that wish to take back control of the scholarly publishing and in this way, return to the research community the missing link of the scientific communication that has been given to commercial industries.

 

LPForum 2019 Vancouver
March 29, 2019

2019 Library Publishing Forum Sponsors

The Library Publishing Coalition thanks the following organizations for their generous sponsorship of the 2019 Library Publishing Forum. Learn more about sponsorship.

 

Library Publishing Coalition Sponsor

Organization-level sponsors:

Library Publishing Forum Keynote Sponsor

In addition to hosting this year’s Forum, Simon Fraser University has generously sponsored our keynote address through its conference fund.

 

Library Publishing Forum Sponsor

Organizations that have sponsored the Forum at $1,000 and above:

Library Publishing Forum Supporter

Organizations that have sponsored the Forum at $500 and above:

LPForum 2019 Vancouver
March 27, 2019

Closing Plenary: Big Challenges in Library Publishing

Friday, May 10, 4:00-5:00pm
Room: Joseph & Rosalie Segal Centre (1400-1430)

Presenters: Melanie Schlosser, Library Publishing Coalition; Nicky Agate, Columbia University; Dave Ghamandi, University of Virginia; Inba Kehoe, University of Victoria

Description: This plenary session will close the Forum with an exploration of the big challenges facing library publishers from a variety of perspectives. It will be structured as a panel discussion, with LPC Community Facilitator Melanie Schlosser moderating. The panelists will share and discuss—based on their own experience and what they have heard at the Forum—what they feel are the most pressing issues for library publishers. This session will be both a culmination of the Forum and a call to action for the coming year.

LPForum 2019 Vancouver
March 27, 2019

Full Session: Aligning the Definition of Published Scholarly Products with Today’s Practices

Friday, May 10, 2:30-3:30pm
Room: RBC Dominion Securities Executive Meeting Room (2200)

Presenters: Brandon Butler, Director of Information Policy, University of Virginia Library; Chip German, Senior Director for Scholarly Communication, University of Virginia Library; Craig Van Dyck, Executive Director, CLOCKSS Archive

Description: Published products are key factors in the professional lives of faculty and core elements of scholarly communication. That said, how we should define a published scholarly product in our rapidly changing digital-information environment? Experiments of just a few years ago have now become standard means of presenting new knowledge, while increased emphasis on reproducibility in scientific research means that documented methodological steps in the research process are as important as the results themselves. Pre-prints are increasingly important factors in the rapid dissemination of discoveries.

Examples are everywhere. The interactivity that was novel in the Valley of the Shadow project at the University of Virginia in the 1990s surprises no one in more recent scholarly works such as Enchanting the Desert from Stanford University Press and A Mid-Republican House from Gabii and Animal Acts from the University of Michigan Press. Post-publication comments can add significant value in scholarly discourse, a point not lost on Rockefeller University Press and eLife, each of which formally enables them for journal articles. Code Ocean publishes software code in functional capsules, as data sets are increasingly considered just as important as the article. Jupyter Notebook has rapidly become a common tool for documentation of research processes.  Are results that support the null hypothesis disseminated as fully as they should be? Are all of these published scholarly products?  What characteristics should be considered in categorizing them as such? Who owns them? How is each uniquely identified? How do P&T committees value these faculty products? What responsibilities for discoverability and long-term access should their publishers assume? Should they be preserved with the same rigor we use in preserving other components of the digital scholarly record? How can recognizing the value of these kinds of products help overcome structural shortcomings in traditional scholarly publishing?

In the first half of our presentation, we’ll examine these questions from our different perspectives, and in the second half we’ll work with attendees to suggest a framework of analysis that helps us continuously update our definition of published scholarly products to reflect current academic practice.

 

LPForum 2019 Vancouver
March 27, 2019

Full Session: Kick-Start Your Digital Preservation Strategy

Friday, May 10, 2:30-3:30pm
Room: Canfor Policy Room (1600)

Presenters: Emma Molls, University of Minnesota; Emma DiPasquale, University of Michigan

Description: Library publishers continue to identify digital preservation as being a high priority, however, according to the 2019 Library Publishing Directory, a large number of libraries are still in the early planning stages of implementing a preservation strategy for publishing programs. Not only are more libraries venturing into publishing, but the type of content published by libraries is changing. Enhanced ebooks are moving from a sandbox into a production environment, presenting challenges in retaining rich content in new technologies, while journals are incorporating more content types beyond PDF and HTML. Preservation is a long-standing library value that promotes future access and collection development, but for library publishers, digital preservation can also have major implications when it comes to indexing, client expectations, and platform migration.

This session will help attendees kick-start their digital preservation strategy and provide attendees with a custom digital preservation policy. The session will provide a brief overview of preservation for digital publications and present examples of existing digital preservation strategies. The presenters will guide attendees through a series of self-assessment exercises in order to give each attendee time for reflection on their own publishing program. Finally, attendees will map out their identified digital preservation goals with actionable next steps. Attendees will leave this session with a draft digital preservation statement ready for program adoption, and with concrete steps on implementing a digital preservation strategy.

LPForum 2019 Vancouver
March 27, 2019

Panel: Innovation in Meeting Needs

Friday, May 10, 2:30-3:30pm
Room: Barrick Gold Lecture Room (1520)

Supporting Journals to Assess and Improve Their Practices When Using a Library Hosted Editorial Initiative

Pierre Lasou, Université Laval

Description: Université Laval has more that 30 peer review scientific journals on campus. In 2017, a survey confirm that most journals on campus shared the same practices, workflows and challenges regarding peer review management. If all are published online, few works with an automated workflow management system. Most Journals are manage with part time resources at the scientific, strategic and operational levels. With scarce human resources, they must also face increasing requirements with regard to Copyright, dissemination, ethics, conflict of interest, and innovations. In order to support these journals, Université Laval library has launched a hosted editorial initiative in 2018 to manage peer review and production workflows and streamline processes. A longstanding journal, Laval théologique et philosophique, was integrated as a pilot. The pilot project reveals a major challenge: by itself, the technology will not change the way journal staff manage their workflows. It appears that for a journal participating in a hosted editorial initiative the benefits lie as much in providing an opportunity to assess, revise and perhaps improve its practices as in using the automated journal management system itself. For library staff, offering basic training sessions on the platform itself is not enough. Journals need strong commitment on coaching on processes (how to interact through the system with reviewers and authors? How to redistribute task and roles?). All those aspects require skills from library staff that are far from traditional core competencies of librarians. This presentation will outline the measures Université Laval Library implemented to assist journals in redesigning their practices when participating to a hosted editorial initiative.

Bridging the Gaps: Finding Creative Solutions to Unmet Needs in a Growing Library Publishing Program

Julia Lovett, Associate Professor, Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Rhode Island; Andrée Rathemacher, Professor, Head of Acquisitions, University of Rhode Island

Description: With six peer-reviewed open access journals under our belt, our library publishing program at the University of Rhode Island is modest but growing. As the library has expanded and streamlined library publishing services in the past few years, we have conducted a series of interviews with editors to identify successes, challenges, and unmet needs that editors have encountered in the publishing process. The program relies on a combination of in-house and outsourced library services (including our Bepress platform), editorial board contributions, and occasionally additional funding by the University. URI journal editors have found creative solutions to unmet needs, such as hiring student workers, obtaining small internal grants, and hiring freelance designers online. Our findings will be of interest especially to libraries with nascent publishing programs and limited resources to devote to publishing activities.

Supporting Monograph Creation: Creative and Scholarly Publishing at the University of Victoria Libraries

Inba Kehoe, Copyright Officer, Scholarly Communication & Research Repository Librarian, University of Victoria Libraries; Christine Walde, Grants & Awards Librarian, University of Victoria Libraries

Description: The University of Victoria Libraries offers 2 publishing streams—one devoted to producing limited editions of monographs showcasing the Libraries Archives and Special Collections and the other has a dedicated mandate towards publishing open access scholarly monographs and textbooks funded through research grants. Both streams have developed strategic partnerships with campus stakeholders and disseminate free PDF, EPUB, and print-on-demand versions. In tandem with these services the Libraries launched its Grants Menu in 2017 itemizing in-kind library services and contributions to assist researchers with grant applications—thereby, directly positioning the library within the research life cycle and enabling open access initiatives.

Participants will learn about the practical considerations for supporting and sustaining a digital monograph publishing service.

LPForum 2019 Vancouver
March 27, 2019

Panel: Big Ideas for Library Publishing

Friday, May 10, 2:30-3:30pm
Room: Joseph & Rosalie Segal Centre (1400-1430)

Copyright Reform for Open Access: An End to Workarounds

John Willinsky, Stanford University

Description: This presentation addresses the scholarly publishing initiatives of libraries by tackling the legal question of whether copyright law in the United States, Canada and elsewhere is doing enough to encourage access to research and scholarship to still be true to the original intent of copyright, captured in the Statute of Anne 1710 — An Act for the Encouragement of Learning — and the U.S. Constitution: To promote the progress of science and useful arts. I will argue that current copyright law is being used to unduly impede the circulation of research in the digital era, contrary to the new scientific norm of open access supported by government agencies, universities, and publishers, both here and internationally. I will present the case for creating a distinct intellectual property category for research, with the costs handled by the institutional users and funders of this research (much as cost are paid now, only with considerable impeding of access to this work). Current copyright law recognizes a range of intellectual property types, including literary works, film, sound recordings, video games and tapes, among others. I am proposing that copyright law be amended to create a new category of intellectual property for research that has been published through a scholarly process. This new research category would cover work that (a) has been peer-reviewed by recognized experts in the relevant field of research; and (b) the publication of which is valued and utilized, in the first instance, by the larger academic community of universities, research institutes, and the research arm of industry. When such work is published, the law should provide, on the one hand, for its immediate free public online access; and on the other hand, for publishers of such work to be fairly compensated by those utilizing (via libraries) and funding it.

Leveraging Library Publishing to Promote Diversity

Suzanne Stapleton, University of Florida

Description: In 2018, the Library Publishing Coalition released the community-authored An Ethical Framework for Library Publishing, including context and resources for library publishers as we aim to raise awareness of pressing topics among the scholarly community. In particular, the framework offers a starting point for promoting diversity and inclusion that encourages librarians to help combat a publishing ecosystem that represents only a small segment of the scholarly community.

How can librarians and other campus stakeholders take concrete steps to implement the framework’s recommendations within our own programs and institutions? This presentation will describe ongoing work at the University of Florida, where the UF Florida Online Journals Service Team is developing a series of short- and long-term initiatives focused on diversity, equity and inclusion. Beginning in 2018-2019, we are creating a best practices guide to share with each of the journals we publish. Discussion of these best practices will be incorporated into initial discussions for new users of Florida Online Journals, our LibGuide website and also shared at annual meetings with journal staff. This guide will draw on the LPC framework and other resources, emphasizing issues such as academic bias and the importance of a globalized community of scholars and connecting these topics with our journals’ specific plans for outreach, policy, and assessment. An annual client survey provides a good venue to prompt self-reflection and track journal editorial policies and their impact on diversity for that publication and discipline.

LPForum 2019 Vancouver
March 27, 2019

Full Session: Toward Best Practices for OER Quality: A Conversation about OER Quality and Emerging Best Practice Solutions

Friday, May 10, 1:15-2:15pm
Room: RBC Dominion Securities Executive Meeting Room (2200)

Presenters: Anita Walz, Virginia Tech; Corinne Guimont, Virginia Tech

Description: Quality, currency, and lack of supplementary learning materials rank highly as barriers to open educational resource (OER) adoption. This session will encourage participants to consider issues, solutions, and emerging best practices in OER production in the context of shared (but sometimes conflicting) contributions from open source and traditional publishing philosophies. Emerging best practices for assuring OER (original and adapted) quality and communicating quality measures are discussed as a way to more accurately present OER to potential adopters.

This interactive conversation draws on our past and current experiences of producing and stewarding open textbooks and other OER. Participants are invited to reflect and respond to a series of informational prompts on issues and emerging best practices in creating, supporting, and adapting OER. Informational prompts for discussion include: contributions and conflicts between traditional publishing and open source philosophies; impacts of adaptability on production, version control, public access, and OER stewardship; emerging best practices in OER production; and publication practices which improve the experience and understanding of potential OER adopters. We will share insights from our own practices and eagerly look forward to participant contributions.

LPForum 2019 Vancouver
March 27, 2019

Full Session: Order Out of Chaos: The Role of Standards (Existing and Emerging) in Building a Distributed Infrastructure

Friday, May 10, 1:15-2:15pm
Room: Canfor Policy Room (1600)

Presenters: James MacGregor: Public Knowledge Project; Davin Baragiotta, Érudit; Fabio Batalha, Érudit; Élise Bergeron, Érudit

Description: PKP and Érudit are in the middle of a nationally funded project called Coalition Publi.ca, which involves, in part, the aggregation of scholarly content across a distributed ecosystem into one common platform for the development of a Canadian data research corpus, and also for further discovery and dissemination. This project would be impossible without our ability to rely on pre-existing and emerging standards in content metadata (JATS); data markup, packaging and transfer (JATS, DAR, web OAI-PMH); usage metrics representation and dissemination (COUNTER, SUSHI); and more.

PKP and Érudit have been working in this space together for well over ten years, and have seen the evolution of these standards first-hand. We will discuss the standards we have evaluated, and how this evaluation has provided us with our current production toolset. As part of this discussion we will focus on metadata, full-text XML, and usage metrics standards in particular. We will touch on the history of these standards, and provide some insight into the challenges that we have faced, over a ten-year timespan, in adapting to change (either our own, or external). We will then open up discussion into a more involved conversation with the attendees, and welcome the opportunity to discuss, in detail, any particular standard or component that might be of interest, in particular for other institutions who are interested in or are proceeding with similar projects.

LPForum 2019 Vancouver
March 27, 2019

Panel: The Editor’s Eye View

Friday, May 10, 9:45-10:45am
Room: Barrick Gold Lecture Room (1520)

Brown University’s Digital Publications Initiative: Supporting the Development and Publication of Digital Scholarly Monographs

Allison Levy, Digital Scholarship Editor, Brown University Library

Description: This paper explores the changing role of the editor in today’s (and tomorrow’s) publishing landscape: What are the challenges and considerations facing editors of digital humanities projects, from acquisitions to developmental editing to production to dissemination? How does the traditional editor-author relationship change to accommodate large-scale collaborative projects? As teams expand, how must workflows adapt to incorporate the contributions of digital humanities librarians, technologists, designers, and students? As audiences for digital scholarly projects grow, how can the editor best manage user-testing and peer review? In an attempt to answer these questions, this paper will foreground Brown University’s Digital Publications Initiative, based in the University Library and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The purpose of Brown’s initiative is to establish an infrastructure to support the development and publication of digital scholarly monographs. This initiative extends the University’s mission of supporting and promoting the scholarship of its faculty, while also playing a role in shaping the future of digital scholarship in the humanities. As part of this initiative, the Digital Scholarship Editor brings together key technological, organizational, and academic resources across the campus to generate a broader, more effective structure within the University to support the creation, cultivation, evaluation, dissemination, and preservation of new forms of faculty-driven digital scholarly projects intended for publication with a university press. Brown currently has four long-form, interactive, media-rich publication projects, in the fields of History, History of Art and Architecture, Italian Studies, and Middle East Studies. Though Brown’s digital publication projects are “monographic” in nature, the editorial lessons learned and workflows established at Brown over the last couple of years can be applied to a variety of digital projects, from journal issues to iterative works.

Being an Editor on a Library-Hosted Platform

Jessica Lange, McGill University

Description: As evidenced in the Library Publishing Directory, the size and scale of library publishing programs can vary widely. Library publishers often begin as smaller-scale operations hosting a select-set of journals. Important considerations in the context of these types of operations are envisioning how the library’s publishing services can support smaller journals, what kinds of support do these journals need, and what the typical obstacles and difficulties small journals face.

Using the case study of Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library & Information Practice & Research, this presentation will discuss how library publishers can support small journals. From the viewpoint of an editor, it will review the common obstacles, goals, frustrations, and opportunities for small journals and will provide an opportunity for library publishers to learn more about the inner workings of a journal from the frontlines.

LPForum 2019 Vancouver
March 27, 2019

Full Session: Library Publishing and Copyright: Common Questions and Answers

Friday, May 10, 1:15-2:15pm
Room: Joseph & Rosalie Segal Centre (1400-1430)

Presenters: Kyle K. Courtney, Copyright Advisor, Harvard University; Will Cross, Director, Copyright & Digital Scholarship Center, North Carolina State University; Christine Fruin, Scholarly Communication and Digital Projects Manager, Atla; Kevin Hawkins, Assistant Dean for Scholarly Communication, University of North Texas Libraries; Carla Myers, Coordinator of Scholarly Communications, Miami University

Description: Copyright considerations permeate almost every aspect of the library publishing process. This conference session will prepare participants to better identify and address copyright issues that library staff will encounter when they offer publishing services. The conference session will start with a discussion among the panelists and session participants on common library publishing and copyright issues according to US law, and then session participants will break out into small groups facilitated by panelists to explore the most common and pressing copyright issues their programs currently face. The conference session will conclude with an open Q&A session where conference participants will have an opportunity to ask any copyright questions they may have of a panel of copyright experts.

LPForum 2019 Vancouver
March 27, 2019

Full Session: Do They Teach That in Library School?: Educational Preparation for Scholarly Communication Work in Libraries

Friday, May 10, 11:15am-12:15pm
Room: RBC Dominion Securities Executive Meeting Room (2200)

Presenters: Maria Bonn, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign; Josh Bolick, University of Kansas; Will Cross, North Carolina State University

Description: What do scholarly communication librarians need to know about publishing? Do you need a JD to lead a library copyright program or to write a good publishing contract? How do we prepare research data for publication? Scholarly communication is a core academic librarian competency but there is currently no unified educational resource available for training and continuing education that represents the great diversity of experience and perspectives at place in effective support for scholarly communication.

This round table discussion asks librarians, publishers, and those who are both to weigh in on a community conversation about what scholarly communication is and what training a librarian should have to do the job. We’ll prime the discussion with findings from our IMLS-funded (LG-72-17-0132-17), study on this interdisciplinary and quickly evolving field. Then we’ll dig into these questions, with an eye to incorporating your ideas into an open educational resource (OER) for teaching library students and professionals about scholarly communication. Join the conversation and help us prepare the next wave of publishing librarians!

LPForum 2019 Vancouver
March 27, 2019

Full Session: One Platform, Many Possibilities: Lessons Learned from the Manifold Pilot

Friday, May 10, 11:15am-12:15pm
Room: Canfor Policy Room (1600)

Presenters: Annie Johnson, Temple University Libraries and Press; Meredith Carruthers, Concordia University Press; Liz Scarpelli, University of Cincinnati Press; Liz Bedford, Verletta Kern, and Elliott Stevens, University of Washington Libraries; Beth Fuget, University of Washington Press (moderator)

Description: New platforms offer opportunities for publishers to experiment with different forms of scholarly output and serve emerging campus needs. This is true not only because of the capacities offered by the platform itself, but also because the process of adopting a new technology can serve as a catalyst for new collaborations and procedures. In this session, organized by the Association of University Press’s Library Relations Committee, library and press staff from some of the institutions involved in the Manifold pilot program will discuss our experiences using the platform. We’ll talk about the kinds of projects we’re developing, including open books, open educational resources, and classroom projects. We’ll also touch on such points as the cross-campus discussions that have developed in the process of adopting the platform, how we’ve identified needs it might serve, what kinds of procedures and documentation we’re putting in place to use it, our goals for the pilot, and how we’re thinking about assessment.

Manifold is a new publishing platform developed by the University of Minnesota Press, the CUNY CG Digital Scholarship Lab, and Cast Iron Coding. The focus of the session will be not so much on this particular platform, however, as on what the process of adopting a new platform makes possible.

LPForum 2019 Vancouver
March 27, 2019

Full Session: Continuing to Build on What We’ve Learned in OER Publishing: Working Together in the Open Textbook Network Publishing Cooperative

Friday, May 10, 11:15am-12:15pm
Room: Barrick Gold Lecture Room (1520)

Presenters: Karen Bjork, Portland State; Karen Lauritsen, Open Textbook Network; Kathy Labadorf, University of Connecticut; Amanda Larson, Penn State University ; Emily Frank, Affordable Learning LOUISiana; Maira Bundza, Western Michigan University; Corinne Guimont, Virginia Tech; Anna Craft, UNC Greensboro; Carla Myers, Miami University

Description: Following up on last year’s LPF presentation about the inaugural cohort of the Open Textbook Network Publishing Cooperative, this panel will continue the conversation. We’ll share what we’ve learned and applied in the last year of working together as a community to establish publishing infrastructure, processes and support to expand open textbook publishing in higher education. In short, we’ll talk about the reality of what it takes to start and sustain an open textbook publishing initiative.

The Co-op’s vision is to support campuses in owning educational content production and distribution, and members are supported throughout the entire publishing process. Now in its second year, the Co-op has grown to include additional members, including consortia. Together we’ll discuss the strength of the community model to grow publishing expertise, and increase the availability of open textbooks across a diverse network of institutions.

In this presentation, a panel of new and returning Co-op members will discuss successes and challenges of running an open textbook publishing program within their institutional and consortial contexts, and how they’ve designed their publishing programs within the Co-op environment. We’ll explore each member’s expectations around the Co-op experience, including how local program programs and services may have been imagined at the outset, and how those expectations have evolved with experience and time. We’ll hear from small programs with one person at the helm, as well as from programs that include teams of people with diverse library and publishing backgrounds. We’ll also learn how institutions work directly with Scribe, our partners in the Co-op. In addition, we’ll talk about how member feedback continues to shape and improve the on-boarding experience and related publishing curriculum, which is now openly available.