Forum

August 17, 2023

Program

NOTE: This is a draft program and subject to change.

Schedule at a glance

Monday, May 13

Tuesday, May 14

Wednesday, May 15

  • 7:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.: Library Publishing Coalition (conference)
  • 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.: Reception (social)

Thursday, May 16

  • 8 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.: Library Publishing Coalition (conference)

Wednesday, May 15

7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. | Registration | Memorial Hall

7:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast | Memorial Hall

8: 30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. | Welcome Remarks | Memorial Hall

8:45 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. | Keynote address by Katherine Skinner, Research Lead at Invest in Open Infrastructure, Moments, movements, and momentum: What comes next? | Memorial Hall

9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. | Coffee Break

10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. | Concurrent Sessions

BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSION | Memorial Hall
Are We a Publisher?
Jessica Kirschner (she/her), Digital Publishing Coordinator, VIVA

PANEL: OER AND COPYRIGHT | Heritage Gallery
“Author Name Removed at Request of Original Publisher”: an OER Adventure
Nancy Sims, any pronouns, Director, Copyright & Scholarly Communication, University of Minnesota Libraries; Shane Nackerud (he/him) Director, Affordable Learning and Open Education (ALOE), University of Minnesota Libraries

Rights Reversion to OER: Four Stories from the Field
Anita Walz, Assistant Director of Open Education and Scholarly Communication Librarian, Virginia Tech

PANEL: PRODUCTION WORKFLOWS | Ski-U-Mah Room
Single Source Publishing
Dione Mentis, COO and Senior Architect, Coko

Automating JATS XML Tagging With ChatGPT
Matthew Vaughn (he/him/his), Open Publishing Librarian, Indiana University

11:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. | Break

11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions

FULL SESSION | Memorial Hall
Stronger Together: Diamond OA in North America
Brad Hemminger (he/his), Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jessica Clark (she/her), Senior Coordinator, Open Access Development, Érudit / Coalition Publica; Sharla Lair (she/her), Senior Strategist, Open Access & Scholarly Communication Initiatives, Lyrasis; Stacy Lavin (she/her), Journals Manager, University of North Carolina Press; Kate McCready (she/her), Visiting Program Officer for Academy Owned Scholarly Publishing, Big Ten Academic Alliance; Catherine Mitchell (she/her), Director of Publishing, Archives, and Digitization, California Digital Library, University of California

PANEL: OER PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT | Heritage Gallery
From Grantor to Reluctant Publisher: Adding Publishing to an Open Education Program
Jessica Kirschner (she/her), Digital Publishing Coordinator, VIVA; Stephanie Westcott (she/her/hers), Open and Sustainable Learning Coordinator, VIVA

PALSave Textbook Creation Grant Program: A Practical Open Textbook Publishing Case Study
Amanda Hurford, PALNI; Sylvia Yang, Music Librarian and Coordinator of the Music and Performing Arts Library, DePauw University

Defining Expectations and Programmatic Support for Creating OER
Ariana Santiago (she/her), Head of Open Education Services, University of Houston; Kate McNally Carter (she/her), Open Educational Resources Librarian, University of Houston

PANEL: POLICIES AND STUDENT ENGAGEMENT | Ski-U-Mah Room
Library Publishing Policy Writing: A Case Study of Challenges, Successes, and Student Engagement
Ally Laird (she/her/hers), Open Publishing Program Coordinator, Penn State University; Angel Peterson (she/her/hers), Open Publishing Production Specialist, Penn State University

My First Rodeo: Developing Publisher-Level Policy in an Emerging Library Publishing Program
Miranda Phair, Publishing & Open Scholarship Librarian, Towson University

Top 10 Reasons for and against Student-Based Press Operations: What We Learned in our First Seven Years at the Press at Cal Poly Humboldt
Kyle Morgan (he/him), Scholarly Communications and Digital Scholarship Librarian, Cal Poly Humboldt

12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. | Lunch

1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions

BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSION | Memorial Hall
Scaling OER Publishing: Supporting Authors while Prioritizing Staff Well-being
Abbey K. Elder (she/they), Open Access & Scholarly Communication Librarian, Iowa State University

FULL SESSION | Heritage Gallery
Developing an Open Education Resource focused on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice
Allison Brown (she/her), Digital Publishing Services Manager, SUNY Geneseo; Cailyn Green Ph.D., CASAC-M (she/her/hers), Assistant Professor of Addiction Studies, Empire State University

PANEL: COLLABORATION | Ski-U-Mah Room
A Library + University Press Collaboration: Big Ten Open Books
Jason Colman (he/him), Director of Publishing Services, University of Michigan Library; Kate McCready (she/her), Librarian and Visiting Program Officer for Academy Owned Scholarly Publishing, University of Minnesota & Big Ten Academic Alliance

The Great Migration: A New Home for the Searchable Ornithological Research Archive
Jason Boczar (he/him), Digital Scholarship and Publishing Librarian, University of South Florida; Paul “Alex” Onac, Institutional Repository Manager, University of South Florida

The Power of Partnership: Reflections on Ten Years of Publishing a Novel Interdisciplinary Journal
Elizabeth Weinfurter, MLIS (she/her), Liaison and Instruction Librarian; Production Editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies; Health Sciences Library, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities; Teddie Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP (she/her), Clinical Professor, Director Center for Planetary Health and Environmental Justice; Executive Editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies; School of Nursing, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

2:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. | Break

2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions

FULL SESSION | Memorial Hall
Library Publishing Collective Action at the Big Ten Academic Alliance
Kate McCready (she/her), Visiting Program Officer for Academy Owned Scholarly Publishing, Big Ten Academic Alliance; Jason Colman (he/him), Director of Publishing Services, University of Michigan Library; Catherine Mitchell (she/her), Director of Publishing, Archives, and Digitization, California Digital Library; Ally Laird (she/her), Open Publishing Program Coordinator, Penn State University Libraries

PANEL: MULTIMEDIA | Heritage Gallery
Beyond the Written Word: Fostering Inclusivity and Expression for Veteran Students with JIVE
Kristin Van Diest (she/her), Digital Publishing Librarian, Texas State University; Dr. Heriberto Arambula (he/him), Texas State University

What Does It Mean to Publish Digital Scholarship? (And How Do I Do It?): Case Studies in Publishing Services from Columbia Libraries’ Digital Scholarship
Michelle Wilson (she/her), Head, Open Scholarship Services, University of Maryland

PANEL: OPEN ACCESS | Ski-U-Mah Room
Flipping to Diamond Open Access: Interviews with LIS Journal Editors
DeDe Dawson (she/her), Science & Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of Saskatchewan; Rachel Borchardt (she/her), Scholarly Communications Librarian, American University; Teresa Schultz (she/her), Scholarly Communications & Social Sciences Librarian, University of Nevada, Reno

Subscribe to Open (S2O) as a DEIA-Friendly Open Access Model
Elizabeth W. Brown, Publisher Relations Manager, Project MUSE, Project MUSE, Johns Hopkins University Press

Analyzing the Publishing Output of an R1 Research Institution: The First Four Years
Elaine Walker (she/her), Scholarly Communications Librarian, The University of Alabama

3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. | Break

4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. | Reception | Memorial Hall

Thursday, May 16

8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. | Registration | Memorial Hall

8:00 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast | Memorial Hall

8:45 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. | Concurrent Sessions

FULL SESSION | Memorial Hall
From OER to Open Press and Open Impact: The Evolution of Large-Scale Open Education Initiatives
Stefanie Buck, Director, Open Educational Resources, Oregon State University; Anita Walz, Assistant Director of Open Education and Scholarly Communication Librarian, Virginia Tech; Allison Brown (she/her), Digital Publishing Services Manager, SUNY Geneseo; Abbey Elder, Open Access & Scholarly Communication Librarian, Iowa State University; Julie Curtis, VP Growth & Strategy (she/her), Pressbooks (moderator)

HANDS-ON SESSION | Heritage Gallery
Dive into Open Infrastructure with IOI’s New Discovery Tool
Lauren Collister (she/they), Engagement Coordinator, Infrastructure, Invest in Open Infrastructure; Katherine Skinner, Research Lead, Invest in Open Infrastructure
Participants should bring their devices (laptops or tablets ideally).

HANDS-ON SESSION | Ski-U-Mah Room
Library Publishing Coach-A-Thon!
Melanie Schlosser (she/her), LPC Community Facilitator, Educopia Institute; Rachel Mattson, Senior Consultant & Project Manager, Educopia Institute

9:45 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. | Break

10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. | Concurrent Sessions

FULL SESSION | Memorial Hall
‘Equitable Access:’ An Existential Threat to OER Publishing and Adoption?
Kelly Smith (she/her), Director of Collections & Discovery, Eastern Kentucky University Libraries; Edna Fugate (she/her), Director of Library Services, University of Pikeville

HANDS-ON SESSION | Heritage Gallery
Alan Smithee in the Libraries (Publishing): Attribution, DISattribution, and Other Complexities of Credit and Citation
Nancy Sims; any pronouns; Director, Copyright & Scholarly Communications, University of Minnesota Libraries

FULL SESSION | Ski-U-Mah Room
Strengthening Canadian Library Publishing Community Connections
Sonya Betz (she/her), Head, Open Publishing and Digitization Services, University of Alberta Library; Emily Carlisle-Johnston, Research and Scholarly Communication Librarian, Western Libraries; Jeanette Hatherill, Principal Coordinator, Coalition Publica

11:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. | Break

11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions

BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSION | Memorial Hall
Student Publications
Charlotte Roh (she/her), Publications Manager, California Digital Library

FULL SESSION | Heritage Gallery
Growing OER Publishing Programs: Watershed Decisions that Drive Impact
Shane Nackerud (he/him), Director, Affordable Learning and Open Education (ALOE), University of Minnesota Libraries; Kathy Essmiller (she/hers), Coordinator, OpenOKState | OER Librarian, Oklahoma State University Libraries; Ryan Otto (he/him), Scholarly Communication and Digital Scholarship Librarian, Kansas State University Libraries; Julie Curtis (she/her), VP Growth & Strategy, Pressbooks

HANDS-ON SESSION | Ski-U-Mah Room
Reframing the Library Publishing Research Agenda
Karen Bjork (she/her), Head, Digital Libraries and Publishing, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries; John Morgenstern (he/him), Copyright & Scholarly Communications Librarian, Emory Libraries

12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. | Lunch

1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions

FULL SESSION | Memorial Hall
“Make it so”: Sustainable, Academy-Owned Publishing Infrastructure with CDL, Michigan, & Janeway
Amanda Karby (she/her), Publications Manager, California Digital Library; Jason Colman (he/him), Director of Publishing Services, University of Michigan Library; Lauren Stachew (she/her), Senior Digital Publishing Coordinator, University of Michigan Library; Andy Byers (he/him), Director of Publishing Technology, Open Library of Humanities; Katherine Parker-Hay (she/her), Publishing Development Officer, Open Library of Humanities

HANDS-ON SESSION | Heritage Gallery
Behind the Text: What Do YOU Think Faculty Should Know Before Diving into OER Textbook Creation
Amanda Larson (she/her/hers), Affordable Learning Instructional Consultant, The Ohio State University; Karen Lauritsen (she/her/hers), Senior Director, Publishing, Open Education Network, University of Minnesota

HANDS-ON SESSION | Ski-U-Mah Room
Hands-On Automated Typesetting: Create a Book with Ketty
Dione Mentis, COO and Senior Architect, Coko

2:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. | Break

2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. | Concurrent Sessions

FULL SESSION | Memorial Hall
Implementing DEIA in Library Publishing Practices
Charlotte Roh (she/her), Publications Manager, California Digital Library; Allegra Swift, Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of California San Diego; Annie Carter (they/them), Digital Publishing Coordinator, University of Michigan Press – Michigan Publishing Services; Harrison W. Inefuku (he/him), Scholarly Publishing Services Librarian, Iowa State University; Sarah Frankel (she/her), Open Access & Repository Coordinator, University of Louisville

PANEL: STUDENT PUBLISHING | Heritage Gallery
Publishing Pedagogy: How Institutional Repositories Empower Undergraduate Research
Dylan Mohr, Syracuse University

Dynamic Texts: Student Voices in Course Materials
Micah Gjeltema (he/him), Open Education & Affordable Content Librarian, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

PANEL: WORKFLOWS AND TOOLS | Ski-U-Mah Room
Piloting Publishing Platforms for Infrastructure and Equity
Karen Lauritsen (she/her), Senior Director, Publishing, Open Education Network, University of Minnesota; Jamie Witman (she/her), Open Educational Practices Specialist, Open Education Network, University of Minnesota

One Path, Many Tools: Publishing Getty’s Open-Access Journal
Greg Albers (he/him), Getty

Platforms, Policies, and Formats of Undergraduate Journals in North America: Preliminary Results from a Systematic Analysis of 100 Journals
Christopher Barnes (he/him), Digital Publishing Librarian, Adelphi University

3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. | PAWS Therapy Dogs | Minnesota Room

3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. | Coffee Break

4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Closing Plenary | Melanie Schlosser, LPC Community Facilitator; Elizabeth Bedford, University of Washington, LPC Program Committee Co-chair; Jennifer Coronado, Butler University (PALNI), LPC Program Committee Co-chair, Here’s to the Next 10 Years!: Developing a Community Vision | Memorial Hall

Questions?

Email us at contact@librarypublishing.org.

On behalf of the Library Publishing Coalition Program Committee:

Elizabeth Bedford, University of Washington (2023–2024 co-chair)
Jennifer Coronado, Butler University (PALNI) (2023–2024 co-chair)
Jason Boczar, University of South Florida
Corinne Guimont, Virginia Tech
Loftan Hooker, Virginia Commonwealth University
Alexandra Marcaccio, University of Guelph
Emma Molls, University of Minnesota (host liaison)
Melanie Schlosser, Library Publishing Coalition

August 17, 2023

Registration & Travel Information

Registration

Registration rates for the 2024 Library Publishing Forum:

  • General Admission: 300 USD
  • Student Admission: 50 USD
  • Low- and Middle Income Countries: 50 USD

LPC members are eligible for a $100 discount on two general admission tickets. Contact your voting representative for the code to use when registering.

Registration includes breakfast, lunch, and morning and afternoon snacks/breaks on both days of the Forum as well as an evening reception with hors d’oeuvres.

General registration is open through May 6 or whenever our maximum capacity is met.

Cancellations & Refunds

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

All participation in the Library Publishing Forum is subject to the Library Publishing Coalition’s Code of Conduct, which includes a policy for event-specific health guidelines. Read this year’s COVID policy.

Hotel

The Graduate Hotel is offering a group rate for the 2024 Library Publishing Forum. The hotel is conveniently located across the street (or through the tunnel to) McNamara Alumni Center. The room rate is $199/night (not including taxes, fees, and any additional charges) and applies from May 14 through May 16. We expect the block to fill up very early, so please book your room as soon as possible.

Booking Information

  • To reserve your room online use this link: Library Publishing Forum
  • You can also call the hotel at (612) 379-8888, ask for reservations, and request the Library Publishing Forum block
  • The deadline to reserve your hotel room at the discounted rate is Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Other nearby options include:

Transportation

Metro Transit

Metro Transit is the transportation resource for the Twin Cities, offering an integrated network of buses, light rail, and commuter trains. Rush hour fares are $2.50, normal fares are $2.00, but All-Day or 24-hour Passes may be a better deal. Metro Transit recommends the 7-Day To pass for anyone who would like unlimited rides on the Light Rail or City Buses for a longer period of time. You can order a Go-To pass online and have it mailed to you before you depart. (You can buy single fare, all-day, or 24-hr passes at rail stations; see the Go-To Card Store for all purchase options.)

The Blue Line light rail stops at both terminals of the airport. To reach the University of Minnesota campus and the conference venue, you will need to transfer to the Green Line, which runs between downtown Minneapolis and downtown St. Paul. The Green Line East Bank stop is in front of the Graduate Hotel and close to the McNamara Alumni Center.

Green Line stops are located close to the Twin Cities’ regional bus depots and Amtrak station.

MetroTransit’s Trip Planner tool allows you to enter your departure, destination, and time of day, and returns results showing how to use transit to get there.

Bike Share

  • Bicycle share website
  • The Graduate Hotel also offers bike rentals. Bikes are available for two-hour rides, seasonally from April through November. Set up a rental at the front desk.

Restaurants

Depending on the weather and temperature, places marked with an * asterisk have outdoor seating options. Nearly every restaurant has takeout. 

Very close to campus:

Just a bit from campus:

Things to do and see around the Twin Cities

August 17, 2023

Forum Scholarships

The Library Publishing Coalition is offering scholarships to offset travel costs for first-time Forum attendees from the United States and Canada, with a focus on individuals who will bring new and diverse perspectives to the community. There are two scholarships available, each of which will cover up to $2,000 USD in travel-related expenses, including airfare, hotel, and meals. Scholarship awardees will have Forum registration fees waived and will be paired with a community mentor to help introduce them to the conference and the community. For awardees from non-member institutions, the award includes guest access to the LPC community for the year following the in-person Forum. This would include access to the listserv and service opportunities, and the opportunity to participate in the peer mentorship program. All recipients will also receive a waived registration to the virtual Forum planned for May 2025. 

Eligibility

This round of the scholarship program will only be open to applicants from the United States and Canada. Applications will be accepted from individuals at both Library Publishing Coalition member and non-member institutions. Anyone who has not attended a previous in-person Library Publishing Forum is eligible to apply. (Anyone who has -only- attended the Library Publishing Forum virtually is encouraged to apply for this scholarship for travel funding to the 2024 in-person Forum.)

Ideal applicants will be new to their librarianship career (first 3–5 years), or new to the field of library publishing. Applicants who identify as members of a group (or groups) underrepresented among library and publishing practitioners will be given preference. These groups include – but are not limited to – members of a racial/ethnic minority, first-generation college graduates, immigrants and refugees, persons with a disability, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. Applications from people who could contribute to the diversity of perspectives at the Forum in other ways are also warmly welcomed.

How to apply for a scholarship

To apply for a scholarship, please fill out the application form. Applications are due by Jan. 12, 2024.

The Library Publishing Coalition’s Forum Scholarship Committee will review applications and notify applicants by Mar. 15, 2024.

Questions?

Email contact@librarypublishing.org. 

June 8, 2023

Videos from the 2023 Library Publishing Forum are now available

We are happy to announce that we’ve completed uploading videos from the 2023 Library Publishing Forum to a playlist on LPC’s YouTube channel. You can also access them, along with additional resources, through the links on the program page on the website.

With the addition of this year’s sessions, we now have 150 videos from the last four Library Publishing Forums freely available for viewing, including keynotes, plenary sessions, 15-minute presentations, 60-minute panels, posters/lightning talks, and active/workshop sessions. We are thrilled to be able to provide this wide range of content to the library publishing community and extend our gratitude to all the presenters who have made it possible.

Next year is LPC’s and the Library Publishing Forum’s 10th anniversary; we hope you’ll be able to join us in person in Minneapolis, MN on May 15–16, 2024. We’ll be posting more information about next year’s Forum on the website in the coming months.

March 21, 2023

Panel: May 11 2:45

Day/time: May 11, 2023, 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. ETD

Title: Metadata for Everyone: Identifying Metadata Quality Issues across Cultures

Presenter: Julie Shi, Digital Preservation Librarian, Scholars Portal

Description: Metadata is crucial to the dissemination and communication of research. Well-formed metadata facilitates discovery and access and provides contextual, technical, and administrative information in a standard form. Yet metadata are also sites of tension between sociocultural representations, resource constraints, and standardized systems. Formal and informal interventions in metadata spaces may be interpreted as metadata quality issues, political acts to assert identity, or strategic curatorial choices to maximize discoverability and visibility. In this context, we engaged with Crossref on the Metadata for Everyone project to understand how metadata quality, consistency, and completeness impact individuals and communities.

Working from a sample of records known to have erroneous, incomplete, or otherwise imperfect metadata, this project set out to identify and classify the issues stemming from how metadata and communities press up against each other to intentionally reflect (or not) cultural meanings. Beginning with an overview of the context and our qualitative approach, this presentation will go on to discuss various metadata quality issues that were identified and the typology we developed to better understand them. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings and describing next steps.

Title: Puppies as a Veneer for Cheering Genocide: How Should a Press React When an Accepted Manuscript is Problematic?

Presenters:

  • Abram Shalom Himelstein, Editor-in-Chief, University of New Orleans Press
  • Chelsey Shannon, Editor, University of New Orleans Press

Description: It was good enough to make it into the accepted stack, but a deeper editorial dive found racist language and a pro-colonial genocide epistemological framing in a book about a certain dog breed. This editorial crisis coincided with the national reckoning in the summer following the murder of George Floyd, and the collective conversation about structural racism underpinned our analysis of how we had arrived at this moment: with a racist book, a signed contract, and an author who was ready to dig in his heels.

In working through the manuscript and this blunder, we created a language through which we figured out how to move forward, both with the manuscript and as an office, creating policies and processes to prevent a recurrence of such a problematic manuscript in the accepted stack.

Chelsey Shannon (she/her[s]), editor of the University of New Orleans Press, raised the alarm and began the conversation. Ultimately, Chelsey created a heuristic for (future) manuscript intake and consideration, and editor-in-chief Abram Shalom Himelstein (he/his) took on the role of demanding changes from the author or, in the case of refusal, withdrawing the publication agreement. (Hi… it is us writing about ourselves in the third person.)

This stumbling block ultimately moved the Press toward a systematized way both of evaluating possible acquisitions and of distributing the psychically difficult work of dealing with authors who are unwilling to engage honestly with the racism and other forms of prejudice in their work and make changes.

March 21, 2023

Active Session: Discovering, Using, and Getting Involved with the Library Publishing Curriculum

Day/time: May 11, 2023, 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. ETD

Title: Discovering, Using, and Getting Involved with the Library Publishing Curriculum

Presenters:

  • John W. Warren, Director and Associate Professor, Publishing, MPS in Publishing, George Washington University
  • Johanna Meetz, Publishing & Repository Services Librarian, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University

Description: The Library Publishing Curriculum (https://librarypublishing.org/resources/library-publishing-curriculum/) encompasses a suite of synchronous and asynchronous professional development offerings for librarians, which are open and free to use and adapt under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. This dynamic, extensible curriculum is intended to empower library publishers to meet local demands to launch and/or enhance scholarly publishing activities. The Library Publishing Curriculum Editorial Board has been working to develop a new Introduction Module, to complement the existing Content, Impact, Sustainability, and Policy Modules.

In this interactive session, we will introduce the new Introduction Module, explore its content, and participate in a brief activity from the introduction’s Instructor Manual. We will also discuss how you can use the Curriculum in your outreach efforts at your institution, and how you can get involved in the future development of the Curriculum.

March 21, 2023

Full Session: Making Beautiful Books and Articles: Lowering the Costs of Open Access and OER Publishing via Automated Typesetting

Day/time: May 11, 2023, 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. ETD

Title: Making Beautiful Books and Articles: Lowering the Costs of Open Access and OER Publishing via Automated Typesetting

Presenters:

  • Dione Mentis, Coko Foundation COO
  • Christina Tromp, Ketida Project Manager
  • Julie Blanc, Paged.js Developer
  • Julien Taquet, Paged.js Developer
  • Karen Lauritsen, Open Education Network, Publishing Director

Description: Library publishers are often beholden to contractual typesetting processes which can cost $3 – $5 per page and add weeks onto the production timeline. Pagedjs is an automated typesetting solution that is 100% open source and community driven which can drive down the cost and time to almost zero. The Coko Foundation team and the Open Education Network Publishing Director will present Paged.js and how it is used to produce beautiful books and articles for open access and OER publishing. Learn about the realities of automated typesetting from a team of experts with real word experience.

March 21, 2023

Panel: May 11 1:15

Day/time: May 11, 2023, 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. ETD

Title: When Does Your OER Program Become a Library Publishing Program?

Presenters:

  • Stephanie Western, OER Program Manager, Utah State University Libraries
  • Becky Thoms, Head of Digital Initiatives, Utah State University Libraries
  • Erica Finch, Scholarly Communications Librarian, Utah State University Libraries

Description: The OER program at this large, public institution began as a grassroots effort between the library and two faculty members in 2013. Today it is an established program that has awarded more than $60,000 in grants and facilitated student saving exceeding $3.7 million. And, as our program enters its tenth year, it is at a crossroads. We will discuss our OER Team’s journey into OER publishing. What kind of support we’ve offered, what platforms our authors are using, what we have learned and improved. Major questions at the forefront as we assess our future:

  • Should the library take on the role of publisher?
  • How much oversight should the library have over quality control, diversity and equity, and ensuring accessibility through the creation of alternate formats?
  • Are OER considered author publications in the same way that commercially-published textbooks are?
  • How is this reflected in the library catalog and stacks, and how is it represented in the tenure process?

We will conclude with a discussion of the potential risks and rewards of scaling up the OER Program to fully embrace the role of library publisher and suggestions for how to assess your own program and facilitate these discussions at your institution.

Title: Indexing of Student Journals: Barriers and Opportunities for Discoverability

Presenter: Mariya Maistrovskaya, Digital Publishing Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries

Description: Despite the growing number of student-run academic journals and the predominant electronic and open access nature of their publication, their content is not easily discoverable online. Traditionally, academic journals seek to expose their content via commercial or non-commercial indexes, aggregators, and databases, many of which have specific (often very strict) inclusion criteria. Do any of those criteria present barriers to the inclusion of student journals? How well (or poorly) are student journals represented in the major indexes and databases? And finally, what does discoverability mean to student journals, and do they actually aim to be included in academic indexes or do they pursue other content promotion opportunities?

This presentation reports on the results of an original study of Canadian student journals that looks at the above questions from two perspectives: that of indexes and their requirements, and that of student journal editors and their views on discoverability. It features student journal specific indexing tips, discoverability do’s and don’t’s, and insights from interviews with index representatives and student journal editors.

Title: Going Wayback: Digitally Preserving a Defunct Student Journal

Presenters: 

  • Noah Churchill-Baird, MLIS Student, Western University
  • Kristin Hoffmann, Research and Scholarly Communication Librarian, Western University
  • Emily Carlisle-Johnston, Research and Scholarly Communication Librarian, Western University

Description: Regular turnover in student journal editorial teams is a challenge to maintaining consistent publication and succession planning for student journals. This precariousness can contribute to a greater frequency of student journals that come and go over time. Library publishers need to work towards robust preservation programs that can address the need to preserve journal content when journals cease or become inactive, as discussed by the LPC’s Preservation Task Force during the October 2022 Community Call.

There are also specific challenges with preserving content from student journals that began and ceased before a library publisher was even aware of their existence. What strategies can we use to preserve content we were not involved in publishing in the first place?

To explore this question, we will draw on our experiences of migrating a defunct student journal — the NeoAmericanist—to Open Journal Systems (OJS) in fall 2022. We will share our observations about the project’s implication for the work of supporting student journals as a library publisher. We will discuss what we have learned from this process and some of the key decisions we had to make without knowledge or insight into how decisions were made in the first place.

Previous LPF sessions have discussed reasons why student journals have ceased and methods for supporting the preservation of publications from student journals. While our presentation will briefly touch on these elements, we will explore the NeoAmericanist migration to OJS as a case study in managing journal preservation projects. We’ll discuss using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to access missing content from lost webpages, and how this exercise in journal preservation has informed how we engage with student editors of active journals to support their publications.

March 21, 2023

Keynote: Deborah Poff

Day/time: May 11, 2023, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. ETD

Title: to come

Description: to come

March 21, 2023

Panel: May 10 2:45

Day/time: May 10, 2023, 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. ETD

Title: Academy Owned Scholarly Publishing at the Big Ten Academic Alliance

Presenter: Kate McCready, BTAA Visiting Program Officer for Academy Owned Scholarly Publishing, Big Ten Academic Alliance + University of Minnesota Libraries

Description: Collective action between University-based publishing programs is rare. Library publishing programs often make-do with shallow budgets and generally focus on serving internal affiliate needs. University presses cross institutional boundaries with their authors, but the presses themselves are in direct competition with one another. They also have complex financial structures that can constrain them from working on multi-institutional efforts beyond outsourceable production work. At the same time, many university-based publishing programs desire to eliminate, or severely limit, the influence of commercial publishers in the scholarly publishing arena. They also desire to bring their work to a scale that greatly expands academy-owned open access publishing capacity. This landscape is ripe for exploration.

The Big Ten Academic Alliance’s [BTAA] Academy Owned Scholarly Publishing initiative is striving to understand the common challenges and shared strengths of university-based publishing with the goal of identifying avenues for collective action. This initiative is part of the work to advance the BTAA’s BIG Collection’s work to unite the collections of the Big Ten university libraries and to achieve the primary goal of: “Within the Big Ten: Any content, from anywhere, to anyone ….now and into the future.” This initiative has the goal of participating in the transformation of academic publishing and scholarly communication through investigating and outlining a multifaceted, sustainable course of action to strengthen academy-owned publishing within the BTAA.

This presentation will showcase the initial work of the initiative which began with an inventory of publishing activity across the Big Ten that both examined the processes being employed and the publications being produced, and also asked publishing experts where there were common challenges and opportunities for collaboration. The presenter will share the main themes that were identified through the survey, interviews, and focus groups, and will also explore the possibilities for collaboration that have surfaced.

Title: The Role of Library Publishing in Making Non-Traditional Research Outputs Count

Presenters:

  • Christie Hurrell, Director, Lab NEXT, University of Calgary
  • Robyn Hall, Scholarly Communications Librarian, MacEwan University

Description: Researchers across disciplines are increasingly expected by institutions and funders to engage in knowledge mobilization activities and to openly share a variety of research outputs for the benefit of both researchers and knowledge users in a wide range of contexts. Researchers engaged in knowledge mobilization efforts often create non-traditional outputs that may not easily find a home with established scholarly publishers, who largely remain focused on traditional forms such as journal articles, monographs, and textbooks. As such, researchers may face barriers to openly disseminate, preserve, and track the impact of non-traditional outputs.

Library publishing services are well-placed to support researchers producing non-traditional outputs such as reports, policy briefs, data sets, podcasts, digital multimedia projects, and infographics. Research repositories can typically host and preserve a wide variety of content and format types, make these works widely discoverable, and track downloads and other measures of impact. In addition, librarians and library publishing staff have expertise in copyright, research metrics, and digital preservation. By leveraging this infrastructure and expertise, libraries have the opportunity to more broadly disseminate non-traditional outputs, package them in a professional fashion, and assist researchers in more precisely articulating their impact. As such, exploring the ways in which libraries can support this growing area is important as publishing teams expand their scope to include a diverse range of research outputs. It may also help libraries support new research impact evaluation practices and bolster the knowledge mobilization goals of their institutions and researchers.

This presentation will outline preliminary research results focused on researcher perspectives and library practices in Canada and the United Kingdom concerning the role and function of non-traditional research outputs. Attendees will be encouraged to consider ways that library publishing services, including but not limited to research repositories, can make these works more discoverable, visible, and measurable.

Title: Ethics, Epistemology, and Scholarly Communication: How Epistemic Injustice Emerges throughout the Scholarly Communication Lifecycle

Presenter: Emily Cox, Collections & Research Librarian for Humanities, Social Sciences, & Digital Media, NC State University

Description: This presentation will discuss how recent work in the area of epistemic injustice can help us better understand the inequities in the scholarly communication lifecycle. Broadly speaking, epistemic injustice is when a person is not recognized as a knower. More specifically, there are two types of epistemic injustice particularly relevant to scholarly communication: testimonial injustice and hermeneutical injustice. Testimonial injustice occurs when a speaker suffers a credibility deficit due to prejudice. Exploring this injustice can shed light on barriers marginalized scholars face in scholarly publishing that are potentially unjust and harmful. Hermeneutical injustice is related to a lack of shared social understandings between communities. This kind of injustice can help to clarify the injustices marginalized scholars encounter at professional developments events, such as conferences. By examining some aspects of scholarly communication through the lens of epistemic injustice, we can more clearly examine practices which are inequitable and develop an understanding of how scholars are impacted by these practices.