Past Forum Info

March 10, 2020

Panel: Creativity at the Forefront: User-oriented and Shared Infrastructure Services

Day: Monday, May 4,  2:45 PM to 3:45 PM
Room: TBD

That’s a pretty big job, eh? Supporting Open Infrastructure in Canada—Lessons from Coalition Publica

Presenters: Jessica Clark, Coalition Publica/Érudit; James MacGregor, Public Knowledge Project (PKP)

Description: North of the 49th parallel, an ambitious national project is afoot to build open infrastructure for digital scholarly publishing and research. Known as Coalition Publica (www.coalition-publi.ca), this project is spearheaded by partners Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), two long-established Canadian leaders in scholarly communication.

March 10, 2020

Poster Talks & Session

Day: Tuesday, May 5, 1:30 PM to 2:45 PM
Room: TBD

Library Publishing Workflows Preliminary Findings

Presenter: Brandon Locke, Educopia Institute

Description: Library Publishing Workflows (LPW) is a two-year, IMLS-funded project to investigate, compare, and model diverse scholarly journal publishing workflows. Educopia Institute and the Library Publishing Coalition are working with 12 partner libraries to create documentation and models of workflows employed by journal publishing programs, with the goal of increasing the capacity of libraries to publish open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journals.

This poster will present preliminary findings from the first round of interviews for the LPW project. LPW staff conducted are conducting interviews with library publishers from November 2019 through March 2020, focusing on the skills, services, and infrastructure used by libraries—including the actions they perform in house or outsource, the personnel involved in the process, and the tools and platforms used. We will be able to share common pain points and frustrations, and point to trends and areas of divergence amongst the participants. We also hope this poster can be a space for conversation amongst Forum attendees, to discuss similar frustrations and pain points in their own processes.

Driving more Green OA: The Advancing Hyku project

Presenters: Brian Hole, Ubiquity Press; Ellen Ramsey, University of Virginia

Description: Advancing Hyku is a collaborative project running from 2019-2021 to support the growth of green open access through institutional repositories, by introducing significant structural improvements and new features to the Samvera Community’s Hyku platform. The project partners are University of Virginia Library, Ubiquity Press and the British Library, with funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund of philanthropists Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. This poster will outline the project and present the outputs of the project to date.

Repository Flexibility and Responsiveness with Hyku for Consortia

Presenters: Gretchen Gueguen, PALCI; Amanda Hurford, PALNI

Description: Partnering consortia, PALNI (the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana) and PALCI (the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium) are collaborating on a new initiative to produce an affordable, open-source, collaborative institutional repository (IR) solution based on the Hyku software. By creating a shared platform, the two consortia hope to create a flexible and responsive repository service—one they can manage collaboratively in order to respond to both longstanding and emerging IR needs presented by their constituents.

Consortia offering a low cost IR platform option to their partner libraries open doors for smaller institutions and those with shrinking budgets and staff.  This project intends to better enable consortially supported libraries to participate in library publishing of open educational resources (OER), electronic theses and dissertations (ETD), and present the potential for institutions to further grow their own tailored local publishing programs.

Accessibility beyond web standards for improving User Experience

Presenter: Israel Cefrin

Description: A fully open access journal intends to be used by humans. Due to the uniqueness of each person, we may find different accessibility issues that even W3C standards can’t cover yet. Hence, only the use of web standards may not ensure a fully accessible online interface.

For that reason, PKP has started in 2019 an Accessibility project aiming to turn its Default Theme accessible and also compliant with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) best practices. This project also includes concerns from Section 508, but the most important: we are testing with real people with real disabilities.

Mapping Libraries and Open Access Publishing in the Liberal Arts at Amherst College

Presenters: Hannah Brooks-Motl, Amherst College Press and Lever Press; Este Pope, Amherst College

Description: The Amherst College Library makes significant contributions to the open access publishing landscape. This poster will provide an overview of the staffing and institutional resources involved in supporting two open access presses housed at Amherst College Library: Amherst College Press, the only open access press located in a liberal arts college, and Lever Press, an innovative open access press funded through a consortium of liberal arts college libraries, of which Amherst College is a founding member. The director and assistant acquisitions editor of both Lever and Amherst College Press are based in the library and work closely with various library departments and staff members on a range of projects and initiatives. By mapping the links, collaborations, and reciprocities between press and library activities within the larger ecology of a liberal arts campus, this poster will highlight opportunities and challenges to Amherst’s model and generate conversations about how liberal arts college libraries can engage in academic publishing and open access efforts.

Flexible Files: Creating Accessible Web Publications from PDF Documents

Presenter: Matthew Hunter, Florida State University

Description: Despite the availability of flexible file formats for digital publishing, many journals prefer the PDF as their go-to output format. XML and HTML versions of journal articles can be created from PDF documents to publish multimedia content, and these markup languages offer greater opportunities for web accessibility. While some vendors offer file conversion services, library publishers may not have the funds to outsource this service. There are alternative options for publishers who wish to convert PDF documents into other formats in-house using various open source and proprietary software. This poster describes a potential workflow used by Florida State University Libraries to transform PDFs into workable HTML and XML files.

Enriching Digitized Books with Supplemental Materials

Presenter: Joseph Muller, University of Michigan

Description: Michigan Publishing in the University of Michigan Library is currently digitizing one hundred books that were published over the last sixty years by three of the university’s Asian studies centers, with funding from the NEH and the Mellon Foundation. In addition to creating open EPUB3 and PDF editions of the books, we are working to enhance up to twenty titles with supplemental materials, potentially including audio clips, videos, transcripts, or other data that emerge from the archive. The destination platform, Fulcrum, is designed for such enriched monographs, but preparing content for Fulcrum often requires custom workflows and data curation procedures. In this poster, I will provide an overview of the ongoing process of multimedia enrichment, including identifying materials through campus and disciplinary networks, curating metadata and content, fitting the work into existing flows and groups, and managing copyright issues.

Learning outcomes

Attendees will be able to compare their own project outcomes and ideas to our experience and our institutional context. Adding multimedia content to digitized books is a complex process, and opportunities are dependent on situational factors such as the nature of the books and their disciplines, availability of additional materials, time available, technical systems and expertise, and the copyright status of the material. I hope that in listening to our process, attendees will reflect on or formulate plans for their own multimedia humanities publishing projects. 

March 10, 2020

Full Session: Helping a journal apply to PMC when you’ve never done it before: Case study and indexing best practices discussion

Day: Monday, May 4, 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM
Room: TBD

Presenter: Brian Cody, Scholastica

Description: In this interactive session, Scholastica Co-Founder and CEO Brian Cody will share actionable insights on how to help a journal navigate the technical aspects of the PubMed Central (PMC) application process. Brian will present a case study on how Scholastica worked with the editors of a campus-based medical journal to learn the requirements for inclusion in PMC, implement the necessary technical criteria, and process their application. Speaking from the vendor perspective, he will overview how to break out the editorial and technical aspects of journal indexing, and how to work with your publishing vendor(s), or your internal publishing technology team, to ensure that your journals are able to fulfill the requirements for PMC and other major discovery services, such as the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). He’ll also delve into indexing metadata best practices, including registering Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for all articles. After the presentation, the session will open up into a collaborative discussion around top indexes for STEM journals, indexing dos and don’ts, and questions from the audience. Attendees will also receive a worksheet that they can use to help guide journal indexing applications.

November 19, 2019

2022 Library Publishing Forum Sponsorship Opportunities

Sponsors of the Library Publishing Forum demonstrate their commitment to the 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. 

The 2022 Library Publishing Forum will consist of two events: a virtual event held May 18–19 and an in-person conference in Pittsburgh on May 25–26. Sponsors receive one set of benefits that spans both events.

Sponsorship dollars help to fund the costs associated with hosting the conference. This year we are pleased to offer four sponsorship levels. See below for the full descriptions. Benefits apply to both the virtual and the in-person events except as noted.

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

Forum Supporter

Amount: $500 and above
Benefits:

• A logo/link on the Forum website and acknowledgement as a Forum Supporter
• A logo/link on the Forum’s Sched.com site and acknowledgement as a Forum Supporter
• Slide featuring logo and short blurb (see example) to be included in a slideshow that will rotate on presentation screen in Zoom room before the keynotes and presentations (virtual event)
• 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 program PDF (send to contact@librarypublishing.org by April 29)
• One complimentary registration to both Forum events

Forum Sponsor

Amount: $1,000 and above
Benefits:

• All $500 benefits
• In person event: Exhibit space (a limited number of tables will be available, allocated in order of request)

Coffee Break Sponsor

Amount: $3,000 and above
Limit: 4
Benefits:

• All $1,000 benefits
• Two complimentary registrations to both Forum events
• Acknowledgment as the sponsor of one of the four coffee breaks during the in-person Forum

Reception Sponsor

Amount: $5,000
Limit: 1
Benefits:

• All $1,000 benefits
• Two complimentary registrations to both Forum events
• Acknowledgment as the sponsor of the in-person Forum reception

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

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:

• Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) is about 45 miles east of Worcester (about 1 hour by car) and has the most flight options.
• Worcester Regional Airport (ORH) offers daily roundtrip service through JetBlue, American Airlines, and Delta Airlines for limited destinations including Philadelphia, Detroit, New York City (JFK), and Orlando/Fort Lauderdale.
• Green Airport (PVD) is about 50 miles southeast of Worcester (about 1 hour by car).

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).

• Rates: Six hours (6) or more: $8.00
• For more parking information, see https://www.umassmed.edu/parking/.

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.

• Days Inn by Wyndham Shrewsbury Worcester
  889 Boston Turnpike
  Shrewsbury, MA (5 miles from Worcester)
  Tel: 508-719-8766
  Toll free: 800-225-3297
  Rooms from US$66.57/night
  
• DoubleTree by Hilton Boston Westborough
  5400 Computer Drive/Route 9
  Westborough, MA (10 miles from Worcester)
  Tel: 508-366-5511
  Rooms from US$132/night
  
• Hampton Inn Boston Westborough
  15 Connector Road
  Westborough, MA (10 miles from Worcester)
  Tel: 508-329-5570
  Toll free: 800-HAMPTON
  Room from US$131/night

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.

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).

• Rates: Six hours (6) or more: $8.00
• For more parking information, see https://www.umassmed.edu/parking/.

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/

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.

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.

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:

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  Project Muse
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  Ubiquity Press

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.

• Simon Fraser University

Library Publishing Forum Sponsor

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

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  Books International
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  MDPI
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  MIT Knowledge Futures Group
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  Nord Compo
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  Overleaf
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  Public Knowledge Project
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  Society for Scholarly Publishing

Library Publishing Forum Supporter

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

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  Érudit
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  Pressbooks
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  University of British Columbia Library