Forum

March 19, 2021

Panel Fr1

Day/Time: Friday, May 14, 1:15 PM to 2:15 PM

How to cooperate with Sci-Hub and Libgen (if at all) ?

Presenter:

• Mikael Böök, IFLA (personal affiliate)

Description:

The Sci-Hub service and the Libgen repository are two widely used ‘shadow libraries’ (Karaganis  2018) that provide open access to millions of research articles and books. As the epithet ‘shadow libraries’ suggests, they are controversial. Most articles and books are pirated and re-published online in violation of applicable copyright. This has led to a high-profile lawsuit and even to suspicions of theft of state secrets (Washington Post, Dec 20, 2019). However, their continuing existence and growth alongside the officially sanctioned  OA-movement is a fact, and many (most?) scholars and researchers evidently need  them (Bohannon 2016) Hence the librarians find themselves caught between pirates and publishers (The Chronicle, Feb 18, 2016).

This talk wants to start a thought experiment. Suppose that the libraries and the ‘shadow libraries’ are both acting under the Mertonian institutional imperatives of science (Merton 1942, 1967) and working towards the same goal,  a universal research library and scientific commons. Should they not then both understand that ‘if you can’t beat them, join them?’ The aim of this presentation is to list problems and solutions that may follow if this view is adopted.

“Transformative Agreements” & Library Publishing: A Short Examination

Presenter:

• Dave S. Ghamandi, University of Virginia

Description:

Library publishing is continually shaped by the goals of their parent institutions as well as outside organizations, namely the commercial publishing oligopoly. The emergence of “transformative agreements” (“TAs”) represents a new relationship between universities and commercial journal publishers. However, the motivations behind these agreements and the effects they may have on library publishing remain largely unexplored. In this presentation, I will critically examine “TAs” from the perspective of a library publisher and share three major analytical takeaways. First, I will compare how “TAs” and library publishers treat the means of production. Who owns and controls the publishing infrastructure and what effects does that have? Secondly, how do “TAs” and library publishing represent different categories of reform? Lastly, I will discuss how the differences between “TAs” and library publishing highlight and heighten the contradictions within research universities. Hopefully, participants will be able to use this analysis to advocate for library publishing in compelling ways within and across our respective institutions.

March 19, 2021

Panel Th2

Day/Time: Thursday, May 13, 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM

Beyond the “new normal”: a speculative reconsideration of undergraduate publishing

Presenter:

• Dana Ospina, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Description:

Amidst the isolation and uncertainty of COVID-19, many of us fortunate enough to continue to be employed have perceived an expectation, stated or not, to maintain established levels and models of productivity, despite the fact that we and our communities are often struggling to determine how to move forward and continue to adapt to shifting psychic and physical circumstances. While platforms like Zoom provide a way to continue performing many of the procedural aspects of our work, less quantifiable aspects of productivity have receded. I, a solo practitioner developing and managing an emerging, modest library publishing program focused primarily on undergraduate publication, have, like many others, experienced disruptions to processes and productivity. But within these delays and obstacles—and in fact because of them—I have found myself motivated to contemplate a future in which the program I oversee assumes an unorthodox disposition, both in mission and practice, allowing it to extend its reach beyond the boundaries of traditional academic publishing paradigms.

This presentation does not presume to provide answers, but rather begins the work of exploring and sharing possibilities for such a program through the depiction of several speculative scenarios. Employing strategies and models of speculation borrowed from other disciplines (design, fiction, architecture), I propose a notional re-conception of my program which, while continuing support for traditional publication styles and processes, additionally prioritizes incorporating an expanded set of practices. If a speculative mindset offers a means to train one’s perspective away from established norms and expectations and toward the consideration of imaginative ideas and potentialities, I suggest it is a worthwhile exercise to envision a library publishing program that is responsive not only to institutional and academic protocols and expectations, but also to the shifting desires, circumstances, and needs of the community it serves and who sustain its relevance.

Developing Open Access Journals using OJS: Best practices maintaining, promoting, and growing your portfolio of student-run academic journals

Presenter:

• Gabe Feldstein, Boston College

Description:

Since the beginning of the COVID lockdown BC libraries has seen an increased interest in Open Access E-Journals on OJS. Three new journals have joined the platform since the beginning of the lockdown as physical printer and publication workflows have become more uncertain. While many young editorial teams can struggle to establish a journal, focusing on indexation, setting up DOIs, and international growth have helped guide our student journals towards consistently relevant publication in their disciplines.

Additionally, analyzing the usage of the Open Access Publishing Funds available at BC has shown increasing interest in publishing open access in Nursing, Physics, and other hard sciences which are generally less represented by our portfolio. Recently, we have welcomed BC’s Medical Humanities Journal to the electronic platform – further expanding the disciplinary scope of the ejournals hosted by the library. As of now, our 20 journals have been downloaded in over 208 countries, which is a statistic itself that inspires our editorial teams to think very broadly about audiences for their journal not only outside of the BC community but as a part of the international community.

Featuring our student journals in a biannual newsletter has also been a great way to highlight the best practices used by some of our most advanced student journals. This also will preserve these practices across editorial teams transition over the years through graduations. By providing resources and being direct and straightforward about some aspects of what it means for the journal to make progress, we have been able to encourage continued interest in publishing open access.

Adapting Podcasts to a Digital Humanities Practice

Presenters:

• Corinne Guimont, Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Virginia Tech
• Joe Forte, Digital Humanities Specialist, Virginia Tech

Description:

In early 2019, a group of Digital Humanities (DH) librarians at Virginia Tech (VT) created a DH Status Report that examined existing services and departments supporting DH in the Libraries, and made recommendations for growth to fit faculty and student needs. Among others, it identified media production as a potential growth area, specifically the production of audio recordings for podcasts, oral histories, and other multimedia projects.

A key stakeholder in the Libraries’ support for DH at VT is the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences (CLAHS), who partners with the Libraries and Virginia Tech Publishing (VTP) in the administration of the Athenaeum, an adaptable suite designed to support digital scholarship and pedagogy in the Library, which includes a small recording studio. Concurrent with the DH Status Report, VTP was hiring an Athenaeum Coordinator. Given the recommendations of the DH report and the needs of CLAHS faculty and students, VTP chose to fill this position with the intention to expand media production capabilities and support.

Beginning in December 2019, the new coordinator prioritized the creation of a podcasting initiative. This meant outfitting the studio with furniture and technology sufficient to address the production needs of the several podcasting teams he was simultaneously guiding thorough development. The idea was to build a community of creators orbiting a physical production space and knowledge base of development resources. However, just as everything was in place and starting to ramp up, we were sent home.

In this presentation, we will detail a case study of the podcasting initiative, including its inception, early achievements, and challenges presented by an unexpected and prolonged period of remote operation. Additionally, we will show how adapting to those circumstances evolved and strengthened the reach and merit of the initiative, as well as providing opportunity to deepen partner relationships.

March 19, 2021

Panel Th1b

Day/Time: Thursday, May 13, 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM

‘Opening the Future’ – a new funding model for open-access monographs: introducing an innovative approach to publishing OA books through library membership funding

Presenters:

• Martin Paul Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing, Birkbeck (University of London), Open Library of the Humanities, & COPIM
• Contact info only: Tom Grady, t.grady@bbk.ac.uk

Description:

We outline the work of a university press, with assistance from the COPIM Project (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs), in launching an innovative revenue model to fund open access monographs at a traditional scholarly publisher. Building on library subscription models, we present a sustainable OA publishing model that gives library members access to a highly-regarded backlist, with the revenue then used to make the frontlist openly accessible.

Given the current global library environment and existing budget pressures that have been exacerbated by Covid-19, a consortial model of funding promises a cost-effective solution for OA that means no single institution bears a disproportionate burden.  This model, then, appeals to both those who wish to pay for subscription-access content (more traditional university acquisition models) and those who support OA initiatives. It brings many institutions together under one roof for an affordable route to open-access books.

The potential of Library Publishing Services to transform scholarly communication in Ireland

Presenter:

• Dr. Johannah Duffy, Marino Institute of Education

Description:

Libraries need to move beyond traditional roles of purchasing and distributing scholarly literature, librarians need to strategically position themselves and take ownership of improving access. As a direct result of Covid-19, there is a new level of urgency to transform the scholarly communication process and there are enormous opportunities for an expanded and inclusive library publishing service which addresses access to knowledge and literature.  This rich discussion will stimulate the drive to make library publishing a mainstream service within Irish libraries.

The purpose of this study is to provide a vision for how academic libraries can assume a more central role in a future where open access (OA) publishing has become the predominant model for disseminating scholarly research. This work will analyse existing trends related to Open Access policies and publishing with an emphasis on the development of repositories managed by libraries to publish and disseminate articles. These trends, coupled with emerging economic realities, will create an environment where libraries’ will assume a major role in the Open Access publishing environment. This paper will provide an insight for academic libraries and their institutions to consider a dramatic shift in the deployment of subscription financial resources from a largely closed scholarly communication system to one that provides open, unrestricted access to research.

Given the importance of scholarly publishing, a number of Irish Third level libraries have launched library publishing services including the establishment and management of high quality library published peer-reviewed open access journals to support formal and informal scholarly communication. Librarians are also upskilling in the area of library publishing. A number of Irish Librarians have completed the Library Publishing Coalition’s Library Publishing Curriculum. There is also a newly formed Library Publishing Group as part of the Library Association of Ireland. This study aims to identify and examine the factors of library publishing services that facilitate scholarly communication. The clear message from this discussion is that libraries need to include publishing in their services, advocate for open access and serve their communities and societies.

The Evolving Scholar rethinks the publishing and publication processes

Presenters:

• Frédérique Belliard, Open publishing (open access) advocate and open scholarly communication lead, TU Delft Library
• Nicoleta Nastase, Innovation Consultant, TU Delft Open

Description:

Open science, combined with new technologies, is triggering innovation within the publishing ecosystem, from infrastructures to research outputs. The process of publishing research outputs is somewhat standard, but a growing number of researchers no longer adhere to the traditional way of publishing. Nowadays, publishing open access is becoming the norm worldwide. Furthermore, open science increases researchers’ visibility by making not only their final publications but their whole work transparent. For its final publication, every researcher has conducted studies that contributed to the final output. It could be literature surveys, experiment failures, developing new methods or generating new ideas, many of which are hidden. Why not bring these research output “by-products” to light? To fill in this gap in the publication journey of the researcher, we launched at TU Delft the open access journal The Evolving Scholar (ThES). It is an initiative of TU Delft OPEN Publishing with Orvium (a CERN spin-off, specialized in accelerating scientific publication for all researchers’ needs). We made ThES a collaborative, interactive and experimental environment for creating new forms of publication and publishing. The publication process managed by the author and the reviewers follows an open peer-review system. While any member (expert or non-expert) of the community can interact with the content by leaving comments, the quality check is done by moderators. We aim that ThES grows with the needs and engagement of its community, whether authors, reviewers, readers or moderators, so it becomes an environment for professional (and personal) development. It’s simple: by deconstructing the publication journey of the researcher, we want to create a path to the reliability of the researchers and trust in science.

March 19, 2021

Panel Th1a

Day/Time: Thursday, May 13, 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM

Library Publishing and Scholarly Bibliographies: A Case Study

Presenters:

• Ally Laird, Penn State University
• Angel Peterson, Penn State University

Description:

The Pennsylvania State University Libraries Open Publishing Program publishes scholarly annotated bibliographies in partnership with units/departments within Penn State and editors across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Since early 2020, we have almost doubled our production of bibliographies with both published and in progress projects, bringing our catalog up to twelve publications. We use the Drupal Biblio module to publish these annotated and searchable bibliographies, some of which are used by libraries and organizations around the world. We have learned a lot about scholarly bibliography publishing over the past five years and have used that knowledge to create a bibliography publishing workflow that ensures a timely and thorough process from the initial consultation to the final publication launch. In this session, we wish to highlight some of our bibliographies and discuss the publishing process, including the proposal review by our publishing board, consultations process with the editors, the content review and proofreading process, pain points in content organization and keyword searching, the creation and addition of content to our Drupal bibliography websites, and final publication. The publications we will highlight range in topic from indigenous knowledge for agriculture and rural development; utopian literature in the English language; and memoirs and primary sources documenting Polish Jews fleeing the Soviet Union during World War II. Attendees will come away from this session with an understanding of the scholarly bibliography publishing process at Penn State and proposed metrics for success.

• Foroozan Rezaeinia, Publishing Expert in National Library and Archives of Iran
• Somaye sadat Hashemi, Reference Librarian at National Library and Archives of Iran

March 19, 2021

Panel We4

Day/Time: Wednesday, May 12, 4:00 PM to 5 PM

Choosing Formats for Accessible E-books and E-journals: An EPUB3/HTML5 Case Study

Presenter:

• Race MoChridhe, Atla

Description:

While PDF remains the industry standard for preparing print outputs, changes in publishing technology and in legal frameworks have increased the demand for other formats. Despite widespread acknowledgement of the accessibility and mobile device compatibility advantages of XML- and HTML-based file types over PDF, however, there is little guidance available for library publishers for selecting among these alternatives. Based on Atla Open Press’s recent accessibility self-audit, this session will present key factors to consider in choosing a digital-first publication format—including accessibility compliance, device compatibility, portability, and differing reading cultures across books and journals among the academic disciplines—and share reasoning and results from Atla Open Press’s deployment of EPUB3 and direct HTML5.

Open Access(ibility): Collaborating with Editors to Ensure Accessible Content

Presenter:

• Josh Cromwell, University of Southern Mississippi

Description:

Many library publishing programs rightly laud the value of Open Access in their endeavors, but this largely focuses on paywalls, and paywalls are not the only barrier to access. For example, users with visual impairments may need to rely on screen readers or other tools to utilize a publication, and if the document has not been optimized for these technologies, such readers may still be left out. It is essential that library publishing programs take these users into account when developing their workflows.

In late 2020, our library-led publishing program began the process of reviewing the journals published through our repository to see if all of the publications met accessibility standards. After identifying any needed changes, we began collaborating with editors to identify necessary workflow changes and provide training sessions tailored to each journal depending on its needs. This presentation will highlight the steps we took to identify needed changes, the process for training and remediation thus far, and a discussion of next steps.

March 19, 2021

Panel We1

Day/Time: Wednesday, May 12, 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM

How DOAJ disseminates metadata from your open access journal to key discovery services worldwide

Presenter:

• Dom Mitchell, Operations Manager, DOAJ

Description:

DOAJ works with all the major discovery services. All article metadata uploaded to DOAJ is available for free. It is collected and disseminated around the world. Why is this important? DOAJ is the world’s most diverse directory of open access journals. We have a long tail of small single journals that represent the true nature of open access publishing globally. Visibility for these journals is key to survival and being in indexed in DOAJ can help with that. This short presentation will show how this is achieved and why this is important.

Save our Search: Ways to improve online journal discoverability

Presenters:

• Jennifer Kemp, Head of Partnerships at Crossref
• Brian Cody, Scholastica CEO and Co-founder

March 19, 2021

Panel Tu4b

Day/Time: Tuesday, May 11, 4:00 PM to 5 PM

Migration and More: Moving from DigitalCommons

Presenters:

• Laura Baird, Systems & Applications Librarian, Pacific University
• Johanna Meetz, Publishing & Repository Services Librarian, The Ohio State University

Description:

Pacific University transitioned from BePress’s DigitalCommons to Ubiquity’s Hyku and publishing platforms between 2018 and 2020. We migrated journals that were published in Digital Commons as well as the content in the institutional repository itself. When the transition was made from DigitalCommons to Ubiquity’s publishing platform, Pacific also reduced the number of journals published from 7 to 3. This presentation will share the entire process of that transition including selection, design decisions, migration, and user adoption. We will discuss the lessons learned, workload commitment, and recommended roles for similar migration projects. We will also share a brief overview of differences between the platforms and how these changes impacted user experiences. As one of the first institutional users of Ubiquity’s Hyku, these experiences may inform future migrations.

After the migration: What editors like (and miss) after moving from bepress to OJS

Presenters:

• Kristin Hoffmann, University of Western Ontario
• Emily Carlisle-Johnston, University of Western Ontario

Description:

Between 2017 and 2020, librarians at the University of Western Ontario migrated 26 journals from the bepress Digital Commons (DC) platform to PKP’s Open Journals System (OJS) platform. We moved journals to OJS largely because we, and some editors, were concerned about potential implications of Elsevier’s acquisition of bepress in August 2017, but we also expected that OJS would give editors more flexibility and autonomy.

Have editors experienced the benefits we anticipated with OJS? How has their work changed as a result of the move? What new challenges do they face? Our session will draw on a post-migration survey of editors to answer these questions. Because some editorial teams now have several years’ experience working with OJS, while others have only a few months (due to turnover or when they migrated), we will address the learning curve that editors may experience over time as they adjust to a new platform.

We will draw on our experiences working with editors to share what our publishing support looked like with DC and how it has changed since moving to OJS. For example, with DC, bepress staff provided most of the technical and operational support for editorial teams. With OJS, library staff provide more direct support. We will discuss the implications this has had for our work as a library publisher, and how it informs the development of our publishing services.

Sessions at previous LPFs have discussed platform migrations, including migrations from bepress to OJS. Those sessions have focused on the processes involved in migrations. While we will briefly do the same, our presentation will largely emphasize the experiences of journal editors and librarians with the two platforms. This will also inform library publishers who are determining which platform is best for their publishing program, based on their resources and objectives.

A Consortium Approach to Library Publishing Via the Open Journal System and the Texas Digital Library

Presenters:

• 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

Description:

The Texas Digital Library is a collaborative consortium of Texas universities that builds capacity among its membership for ensuring equitable access to and preservation of digital content of value to research, instruction, cultural heritage, and institutional memory.  The Texas Digital Library supports the TDL Electronic Journals, where faculty members, libraries, and universities can produce refereed, open-access scholarly journals, ensuring the availability of important scholarship to researchers across the world. TDL Electronic Journals are powered by Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open-source journal management and publication software produced by the Public Knowledge Project.

In 2019, the TDL OJS User Group was formed.  TDL’s OJS Users Group is comprised of library liaisons for campus journals. The group works to create an active community among TDL’s users of the Open Journal System hosting service in the following ways:

• By facilitating mutual support among library managers of the OJS hosting service, including the sharing of resources about library publishing policies and good practices to benefit from distributed expertise
• By facilitating better communication between TDL staff and libraries using this service to identify emerging needs on specific campuses
• By identifying areas of work that could be undertaken by member-led working groups

The goals for 2019-20 were to:

• Use monthly meetings to develop knowledge around OJS 3
• Develop two toolkits for journal managers including decision-making toolkit for prospective journal managers and a toolkit for starting a new journal

The user group benefited by reduced costs through shared IT resources and distributed expertise to better support the creation and management of open access journals.  In this talk we will discuss the function of the user group, as well as the costs and outcomes associated with a consortium approach to library publishing through the OJS system.

March 19, 2021

Panel Tu4a

Day/Time: Tuesday, May 11, 4:00 PM to 5 PM

Taking Open Textbooks Beyond Gen Ed: Building a New OER Publishing Model to Support Career and Vocational Education

Presenters:

• Robert Hilliker, Rowan University
• Marilyn Ochoa, Middlesex County College

Description:

In renewing the Open Textbook Program grants this past year, the U.S. Department of Education updated their Absolute Priorities to focus on addressing gaps in the “Open Textbook Marketplace.”  This reprioritization reflects the success of initiatives such as OpenStax and the Open Textbook Network in providing for general education courses as a way to maximize the financial impact of their efforts.  Our (now-funded) proposal to create a Community College-led, state-wide Open Textbook Collaborative in New Jersey seeks to fill an important need for Open Textbooks that support Vocational and Career Education programs, reducing the burdens borne, in many cases, by students from historically-disadvantaged groups and providing them with pathways to remunerative career opportunities in growth industries.  In this session, we will discuss our plans to develop a new model for career-oriented Open Textbook publishing based on a library-led collaboration between educational institutions, professional associations, and industry partners.

Scribbling in the Margins of the Scholarly Communication Notebook

Presenters:

• Maria Bonn, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
• Josh Bolick, University of Kansas
• Will Cross, North Carolina State University

Description:

Open education presents the opportunity to build participatory pedagogical communities. As DeRosa & Jhangiani (2017) observe, “embedded in [open education’s] social justice commitment to making college affordable for all students is a related belief that knowledge should not be an elite domain. Knowledge consumption and knowledge creation are not separate but parallel processes, as knowledge is co-constructed, contextualized, cumulative, iterative, and recursive.” That same inclusive principle should apply to teaching and learning about publishing.

We are developing an openly-licensed textbook that introduces and engages with issues in scholarly communication, to be released in 2021 by ACRL. As we undertake this work, we are aware that any static text will be hierarchical and limited. To open doors to the multiplicity of approaches and perspectives in the field, as well as reflect the dynamic nature of both open education and scholarly communication, we are developing a companion online community hub: the Scholarly Communication Notebook (SCN).

This session introduces the SCN, an IMLS funded project (LG-36-19-0021-19) aspiring to be the locus for an inclusive community of practice for teaching scholarly communication to emerging librarians. This LPF session will invite participants to bring their expertise to teaching and learning about publishing, with a particular eye to making an inclusive open resource.

We will offer a guided tour of the first version of the SCN and lead discussion about: ways to build a community that is open to and inviting for participants that reflect the diversity of scholars and scholarship; how the SCN can meet the needs of those scholars and benefit from the expertise of scholarly communication professionals; What is needed to make the SCN what DeRosa and Jhangiani call an “empowering, collaborative, and just architecture for learning”?

Community, Storytelling, and Good Metadata: Marketing Advice for OER Librarians

Presenter:

• Leigh Kinch-Pedrosa, Pressbooks

Description:

Marketing in the open education world requires ethical practices that often conflict with the impulses of many traditional marketers. Installing a zillion cookies to track smartphone use and sending out targeted social media ads might prompt the usage of a product, but that would be unethical and out of place in higher education. Instead, marketers (in this case OER librarians) need to focus their efforts on community building, telling stories, and celebrating the hard work of OER creators. Telling the story of a new OER in a clear, honest, and vibrant way gives potential readers something to connect with and encourages them to share the product within their networks even if they are not directly invested in that book. This method is far more organic than a social media ad, and that honesty shines. In this presentation, Leigh Kinch-Pedrosa will share practical advice about how librarians and other OER practitioners can market OER to increase their adoption and extend their use, thus encouraging the enactment of the 5Rs (retain, remix, revise, reuse, redistribute). Drawing on her experience working with non-profit organizations (Rebus Foundation, Confabulation) and ethical edtech companies (Pressbooks), Leigh will explain key approaches to marketing education products and services in ethical, culturally respectful, and effective ways.

March 19, 2021

Panel Mo4b

Day/Time: Monday, May 10, 4:00 PM to 5 PM

Meet Rebus Ink: An open, values-driven research workflow tool for the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Presenter:

• Zoe Wake Hyde, Rebus Foundation

Description:

Rebus Ink is an open source research workflow tool, designed to support arts, humanities and social science researchers to manage and draw insights from their collected sources. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the project team is developing the tool and its supporting structures in line with open values. This includes facilitating open research practices, modelling organisational practices that are central to progressing an open agenda (releasing code with an open license, publishing reports and research findings openly etc.), and engaging with expansive notions of openness, transparency and community engagement to guide our way.

This session will begin by sharing our research into the problems facing researchers as they construct makeshift workflows for their digital and print content, then introduce Rebus Ink tool and its key features. It will then explore the design principles and guiding values for the project as a whole, and detail the ways in which the project team is seeking to contribute to the open ecosystem beyond the tool itself.

This starts with actively pushing against accepted “conventional wisdom” and the reproduction of existing patterns of research behaviour, instead taking a non-hierarchical approach to source collections, and creating output-neutral working spaces that value thinking and reflection as much as a journal article, book chapter or podcast script. It is furthered by a design approach that centres user agency, prioritises privacy and offers transparency to users around decisions made by the project team. It continues with a commitment to creativity and experimentation in business model design, prioritising sustainability and access over profit and exclusivity. And finally, it is underpinned by an organisational structure that models transparency and ethical labour practices.

Let’s Get Packing: How the Laurier Library partnered with the Bookstore and Printing Services to take over Coursepack Publishing

Presenters:

• Lauren Bourdages, Copyright and Reserves Supervisor, Wilfrid Laurier University Library
• Melanie Ross, Copyright and Reserves Associate, Wilfrid Laurier University Library

Description:

Course readings are of vital importance to university students. They’re a central element of teaching and learning. As traditional proprietary textbooks become more and more expensive instructors are trying to find ways to move away from them. Enter printed course packs and electronic course reserves, two overlapping services provided by most post-secondary institutions. These services are even more important in light of the current move to widespread remote and online learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the 2018 academic year, the Course Reserves office at the Laurier Library became a publisher for the first time as a partnership between the Library, the campus Bookstore, and the University’s Printing Services department was realised. After a year of work building a process, the Library took over the copyright clearance and publication of the university’s print course packs intending to transfer as many course packs from print to digital using the library’s course reserves service. After almost three full years what have we learned from this partnership? In this presentation, we’ll cover those lessons along with why we took on the publishing role, how it worked, and how things stand during the pandemic.

Community Espress-ion: the Espresso Book Machine, public libraries, and the development of creative communities

Presenter:

• Elizabeth Murtough, University College Dublin

Description:

The public library plays an important role in ongoing efforts to facilitate civic and creative engagement in connected communities. According to Conrad (2017), the library has the potential to expand engagement efforts especially in the publishing sector. While a lesser discussed area of research relative to university library publishing, public library publishing, as evidenced by Kniffel (1989) and Williams (1987), has a long, dynamic history as a medium for community engagement and the development of richer localised collections. As Conrad (2017) argues, public library programs that make self- or micropublishing available can amplify the role of the library as a ‘true archive’ of its locality. Consequently, public library publishing programs can mirror Stanley’s (2007) claim of the role of scholarly library publishing in challenging the master narrative and creating space for voices and ideologies otherwise institutionally marginalized.

At present, the most commonly used tool for print-on-demand publishing is the Espresso Book Machine (EBM), a 2003 technology spearheaded by publisher and editor Jason Epstein. The EBM is capable of printing a vast catalogue of books on demand through its EspressNet database, but can also be used by self-publishers and micropublishers for small print runs (Koerber, 2012; Espresso Book Machine, 2015). Situating the latter use within the Maker Movement, Koerber argues that the EBM can empower communities through creative collaboration and connected learning. This tool, therefore, has the potential to expand creative community engagement where deployed within, and leveraged by, local public libraries.

This presentation will use program and cost models as well as community responses for extant EBM installations to look forward to a future where such mechanisms are available to expand the range of locally published voices and the role of the library in community development. A bibliography will be provided to interlocutors to facilitate further thinking on the topic.

March 19, 2021

Panel Mo4a

Day/Time: Monday, May 10, 4:00 PM to 5 PM

Publishing Undergraduate Research: From Serendipity to Strategy

Presenters:

• Sarah Frankel, University of Louisville
• Rachel Howard, University of Louisville

Description:

A combination of ambitious and motivated first-year students, a newly-formed IR Advisory Board including members of a university’s strategic planning subcommittee, and a pandemic led to the rapid expansion of the University of Louisville’s open access offerings of undergraduate research in 2020.

Our small team’s responsiveness to the requests from multiple fronts to showcase undergraduate research meant modifying our institutional repository’s collection policy; adapting author agreements; preparing MOUs; and communicating with stakeholders ranging from the Provost’s office to novice journal editors to software support, all while working remotely.

The juried poster session events and open access journals produced by undergraduates and presented on our repository have brought the library publishing program positive publicity and a mention in the new university strategic plan. The process has prompted us to improve our documentation of other IR procedures and relationships, laying a stronger, more sustainable foundation for the repository as a whole.

Partnering with Student Journals to Increase Visibility and Discoverability

Presenters:

• Omar Dewidar, University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine
• Jeanette Hatherill, University of Ottawa Library
• Zacharie Saint-Georges, University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine

Description:

Student-run journals are often significant pieces of an academic library’s publishing or hosting program that offer graduate and undergraduate students valuable experiential learning opportunities related to various aspects of scholarly publishing. However, the student-run nature of these journals can pose unique challenges for their library partners with an often-higher editorial turnover than their faculty counterparts. Since 2013, the University of Ottawa Library and the student-run University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine (UOJM) have been partnering on projects to increase the journal’s visibility and discoverability. This session will highlight some successful past projects and present the progress of a current project that seeks to have the journal indexed in PubMed. Representatives from the journal’s editorial team will share some best practices and current challenges related to managing a journal while pursuing full time studies. Participants will also gain insight into the important role the Library can play as a keeper of institutional memory for student journals.

The Pursuit of High Research Activity Classification: Library/Learning Commons Support for Student Publishing

Presenters:

• Linda Cifelli, Kean University
• Craig Anderson, Kean University

Description:

As a university pursues R2 Carnegie research classification, the provision of support for publishing efforts by members of its community plays a significant role in the pursuit of that goal. While faculty members are prime candidates for such services, the university’s research classification goals are also well served by support for student publishing.

This presentation focuses on the development and implementation of an integrated set of strategies by one institution’s library and affiliated learning commons units in an effort to nurture publishing by undergraduate and graduate students. These strategies combine outreach conducted through various modalities, ranging from live virtual meetings and workshops to informational text and multimedia content embedded on the websites and other platforms of various university stakeholders.

A librarian embedded with programs that facilitate faculty-mentored research accomplishes a number of goals, including helping students access library and other information resources and also guiding students to the writing support that will help them successfully share the results of their scholarly and creative projects. In addition, an online library/learning commons module available to all students via their learning management system provides intrusive engagement through easy access to asynchronous resources that support development of information literacy, communication literacies, and related student learning outcomes when they write papers as the culmination of their scholarly research.

Outreach efforts across the university emphasize the publishing opportunities available to students through the university’s own open-access student journal, published on a digital learning commons platform.

By helping students to understand the academic and professional development benefits of publishing their work and by providing a digital platform through which research conducted by undergraduate and graduate students may be shared, the university will advance its efforts to increase overall campus-wide research activity and to achieve recognition for high research activity.