Webinars

The LPC’s Professional Development Committee coordinates a regular webinar series to provide opportunities to share knowledge, discuss on-the-ground experiences, and build on community expertise. Webinar recordings are made openly available here.

February 17, 2016

XML Document Parsing & Publishing: PKP Smarter Scholarly Texts Project

Abstract

This talk is intended for editors, editorial assistants, journal managers, XML aficionados, developers, and anyone else who has an interest in document format conversion and parsing. We’ll be examining PKP’s current XML parsing kit, discussing the merits of automated vs. manual markup, and discussing how to accommodate an XML-based workflow with currently available tools. If you’re interested in producing National Library of Medicine JATS XML content from authors’ Word document submissions with a minimum of effort, and getting matching HTML/PDF/ePub output, you should be interested in this webinar!

About Alex Garnett

Alex Garnett, is Data Curation and Digital Preservation Librarian at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. At SFU Library, he works on initiatives relating to the new Research Data Repository; at the Public Knowledge Project, he works on new tools for automatic typesetting and rendering of scholarly articles, and at SFU Archives, he works on implementing digital preservation tools such as Archivematica and BitCurator. His father was a regular expression.

January 28, 2016

Getting Your Copyright Ducks in a Row

Abstract

There are a lot of copyright issues, big and little, obvious and more obscure, that may come up in Library Publishing. Ownership, permissions, licensing, rights transfer, credits, and more: this session will explore the issues, and solutions or practices that may work for a variety of institutions. This will serve as an introduction to issues for those new to Library Publishing, and as an opportunity for more experienced individuals to ask questions and offer their own perspectives. Open licensing issues will be integrated throughout.

December 9, 2015

Submission Management for Library Publishers

Abstract

Is your inbox overflowing with attachments? Are your journal editors looking for an easier way to communicate with authors and reviewers? Join the Library Publishing Coalition’s Professional Development Committee for a discussion of submission management and a brief demo of Submittable. Submittable allows publishers to manage submissions and editorial workflows efficiently and securely, providing customized submission and review forms, automated tasks and notifications, and seamless integration with a variety of publishing platforms.

About JR Plate

I joined Submittable just over 2 years ago as their 5th full-time employee. The last two years have been incredible; watching Submittable grow and help organizations we work with save valuable time, energy and in most cases money by streamlining their submission or application process. Submittable now has 20 full time employees and 9,000+ customers. We continue to grow on all fronts and are excited about the direction our software platform is headed.

October 19, 2015

Open, Networked Textbooks: Building an Ecosystem

Abstract

There is a huge and important push in academia towards Open Textbooks. This is as much about academia controlling the tools of their information trade as it is about lowering costs and increasing accessibility for students. This webinar will explore some thoughts about how the Open Textbook movement can become a thriving ecosystem, and how university library and academic publishing centers can contribute to making that vision a reality.

About Hugh McGuire

“Literary technologist” Hugh McGuire is the founder of LibriVox, a open source publisher of public domain audiobooks, and pressbooks.com, an online book production platform. Pressbooks is being used by a variety of Open Textbook projects, including BC Campus (in Canada), University of Minnesota, Lumen Learning and others. Pressbooks recently launched Pressbooks EDU, focused on academia, and in particular Open Textbooks.

Hugh is also co-editor, with Brian O’Leary, of Book: a Futurist’s Manifesto — Essays from the bleeding edge of publishing, published by O’Reilly in 2012

About Pressbooks

Pressbooks EDU can turn any faculty, department or library into a mini-publisher, giving them the ability to create books that are accessible on all platforms: in print, and on all smartphones, tablets, Kindles and computers. In addition to supporting open textbooks projects,Pressbooks is already working in academia, by powering the publication of scholarly monographs, course texts, dissertations and other documents. Pressbooks clients include The University of Minnesota Press, Tufts University School of Medicine, Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan Library, Harvard Business Review Press and Fortress Press.