Past Forum Info

April 11, 2018

Full Session: Getting the Word Out: Strategies for Reaching Your Readers

Wednesday, May 23, 2:30-3:30pm
Room: Ski-U-Mah Room

Presenters: Kathryn Conrad, University of Arizona Press; Emily Hamilton, University of Minnesota Press; Becky Welzenbach, University of Michigan Library; John W. Warren, Mason Publishing Group/George Mason University Press

Description: A publisher can make a book openly available but beyond creating good metadata, what can you do to help it find its audience, and assess whether it has? This session, organized by the Association of University Presses’ Library Relations Committee, focuses on how to promote the discovery of open monographs, with an emphasis on low-cost strategies such as social media, and tactics for directly engaging authors in promotion. We’ll talk about barriers to discovery but also about how readers are finding new, open scholarship on the web, and how publishers can reach those readers where they are. We’ll discuss scheduling and budgeting for promotions, as well as promotional tactics such as publicity, outreach, and engagement. While the session primarily deals with research and practice focused on books, many of the strategies can also be used to promote journals and other kinds of scholarship.

Participants will:
Gain a better understanding of how readers find open books.
Learn practical, low-cost strategies they can use to promote their books.
Discover ways to improve outreach and engagement for titles and series.
Gain insights on scheduling, budgeting, and publicity.

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April 11, 2018

Full Session: Developing Library Support for Publishing Expansive Digital Humanities Projects

Wednesday, May 23, 2:30-3:30pm
Room: Memorial Hall

Presenters: David Hansen and Paolo Mangiafico, Duke University Libraries; Liz Milewicz, Duke University

Description: Addressing the theme of libraries tackling new challenges, this workshop session explores how research libraries can support expansive digital humanities publishing projects—projects that are interactive and dynamic in their content as they span and often grow over time across multiple content types, audiences, and contributors. Recognizing that the digital humanities are often not static, and change and grow as the scholarship and its community expands, what role can libraries and the institutions that back them play in planning, growing and sustaining these publications? How can institutions adequately evaluate and reward this type of scholarship, particularly when the audiences and collaborators for these publications extend beyond the academic community?

Workshop leaders will briefly present preliminary ideas to start the discussion, based on a separate meeting of library publishing leaders held in April 2018 at Duke University under a new Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to address library services in support of expansive digital publishing. This workshop will focus on five areas of support: 1) planning, 2) resource allocation and production; 3) discovery; 4) evaluation; and 5) preservation and sustainability. Participants will be asked actively contribute in a roundtable discussion structured around each of these ideas, with the goal of helping form a collective understanding of what works and what doesn’t in establishing ongoing institutional support for expansive digital projects. Results from this workshop will be incorporated into a comprehensive report, to be released in summer 2018, that will offer a framework for research libraries to develop sustainable services within their institutional context in support of expansive digital publishing.

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April 11, 2018

Full Session: Getting Found / Staying Found: Practical Strategies for Improving Discovery for Online Journals

Wednesday, May 23, 1:15-2:15pm
Room: Ski-U-Mah Room

Presenters: Roger Gillis, Dalhousie University/Public Knowledge Project; Andrea Pritt, Pennsylvania State University/Public Knowledge Project; Andrea Kosavic, York University Libraries; Sonya Betz, University of Alberta; Jeannette Hatherill, University of Ottawa

Description: For journals operating independently from large commercial infrastructure, success is very much determined by the reach and impact of the content they create. As library publishers, with limited resources at our disposal, we must find ways to effectively expose our locally published articles to automated discovery tools, as well as ensure that they are widely disseminated in the places researchers, and the public, will look for them. In 2006, the Public Knowledge Project authored a guide called Getting Found / Staying Found to help users of its popular Open Journal Systems software understand some of these issues. Now, with a recent major revision, Getting Found / Staying Found is even more relevant to editorial teams beyond the original intended audience and it can help journals using any publishing platform navigate many of the topics that make up the evolving and changing landscape of online scholarly publishing.

Join us for a panel discussion by community contributors to the second edition of Getting Found / Staying Found as they explore some of the issues of discovery addressed by the guide and how they, as librarians involved in publishing at different libraries, have tackled implementation of specific strategies, such as applying for inclusion with the Directory of Open Access Journals, negotiating representation in commercial indexes, promotion via social media, search engine optimization, digital preservation considerations, copyright and licensing, and more.

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April 11, 2018

Full Session: Strengthening the Scholarly Record: A Workshop on Crafting Metadata Records and DOIs with Crossref

Wednesday, May 23, 1:15-2:15pm
Room: Memorial Hall

Presenters: Jennifer Kemp and Shayn Smulyan, Crossref

Description: Everybody has some familiarity with DOIs but using them and creating them are very different roles. Fortunately, libraries are in an excellent position to do both. You may know Crossref from OpenURL linking. We also provide infrastructure that makes research outputs easy to find, cite, link, and assess using DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers).

This session will introduce tools and resources to help attendees get to grips with Crossref so that they can register content, link references and ensure that content is easily discovered and cited.

The workshop will focus on “Working with DOIs,” walking participants through the process of understanding: How to create a DOI, deposit metadata with Crossref, add to or edit the metadata that Crossref holds for your publications, what types of content can be registered and how metadata is used in systems throughout scholarly communications. It will also cover how to find DOIs for reference lists and the importance of linking these references to other scholarly content in a persistent way.

If you publish anything or plan to, please join us for this workshop –– ’stupid’ questions welcome!

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April 11, 2018

Full Session: The University Press and the Library Publisher: Spanning Boundaries to Create Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Professional Development Resources for Library Publishers

Wednesday, May 23, 1:15-2:15pm
Room: Heritage Gallery

Presenters: Hannah Ballard, Educopia Institute; Sara Benson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Peter Berkery, AAUP; Laurie Taylor, University of Florida; John W. Warren, George Mason University Press/Mason Publishing

Description: The panelists will talk about the IMLS-funded project Developing a Curriculum to Advance Library-Based Publishing and their experience as curriculum authors. In the first 2o minutes of the session, attendees will learn about the openly-licensed curriculum modules — their purpose, content, and scope — and the online and in-person pilot implementations taking place in 2018. In the second 20 minutes, the panelists will reflect on the process of creating professional development resources with diversity, equity, and inclusion in mind to help ensure that traditionally underserved groups are better represented in the next generation of publishing. The final 20 minutes will be dedicated to audience questions and open discussion about the curriculum, the project, and the wider landscape of professional development resources for publishers.

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April 11, 2018

Lunchtime Conversation: Library Publisher-University Press lunchtime conversation

Wednesday, May 23, 12:15-1:15pm
Room: Memorial Hall

Presenters: Beth Fuget, University of Washington; Kathryn Conrad, University of Arizona Press

Description: In this informal conversation over lunch, we’ll talk about next steps in our publishing glossary project as well as your ideas for increasing collaboration among library publishers and university presses.

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April 11, 2018

Full Session: Balancing Vendor Collaborations for Sustainable Library Publishing

Wednesday, May 23, 11:15am-12:15pm
Room: Ski-U-Mah

Presenters: Matthew Hunter, Florida State University; Peter Potter, Virginia Tech; Brian Hole, CEO, Ubiquity Press; James MacGregor, Public Knowledge Project

Description:

Libraries that develop their own software and host their own publishing platforms have the advantage of independence and access to open source services. Not all libraries, however, have developers nor do they always have the resources to make maintenance sustainable. Vendor-provided publishing tools have a lower threshold for adoption and maintenance, but they often require dependence on commercial, closed services that may misalign with the values of libraries and academic researchers. How should a library approach the decision between in-house development and outsourcing services with vendor-provided tools? What are the ethical considerations of vendor partnerships? What qualities make a vendor a suitable publishing partner?

This panel will bring together two librarians that have navigated the decision-making process between in-house development and vendor provided tools for digital scholarship services; and two vendors, Ubiquity Press a for-profit provider of open access publishing and repository platforms and Public Knowledge Project, a non-profit multi-university initiative developing open source software and providing hosted publishing services. The panel will begin with the librarians discussing the decision-making processes of their institutions when choosing between in-house development and vendor provided tools followed by the vendors, who will discuss the steps they’ve take to design infrastructure that aligns with community values. The panel will then open up for a discussion with the audience on the concerns and issues of choosing vendors, and how vendor collaborations can be best balanced for sustainable library publishing.

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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.

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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.

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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

 

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