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Scholarly Communication

https://libraries.indiana.edu/scholarly-communication

Matt Vaughn, Open Publishing Librarian
Phone: 812-856-6842
Email: iusw@iu.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The Scholarly Communication Department at IU Bloomington Libraries provides infrastructure and services to support the IU community in creating, sharing, and preserving their scholarly work. We believe that equitable access to data, research, and information is foundational to the production of knowledge, and are dedicated to supporting this principle within the IU community.

• Publishing activities began: 2012
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 4.5
• Individual people: 6
• Students: Graduate student(s), Undergraduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Endowment income, Library materials budget, Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers or proceedings
• Databases
• Datasets
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Monographs
• Multimedia
• Newsletters
• Open educational resources
• Posters

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
  We collaborate with IU Press on typesetting, development support, Open Journal Systems (OJS) troubleshooting, and ISSN applications. We work together to solve problems, and we seek ways to support each other’s projects whenever possible. We are working toward further integrating our services.
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g., local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
• Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: We are interested in expanding our support for work by BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and scholars from the Global South. We are also open to considering publications relating to our established strengths in scholarship on folklore, education, and cultural heritage.
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

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Policies

Anti-Racist Scholarly Reviewing Practices: https://guides.libraries.indiana.edu/peerreview/anti-racist

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion @ IU Libraries: https://libraries.indiana.edu/libraries-diversity-resources

Cultivate Diverse Editorial Boards: https://guides.libraries.indiana.edu/peerreview/boards

Open Access: https://vpfaa.indiana.edu/policies/bl-aca-i24-open-access

Equitable Peer Review: https://guides.libraries.indiana.edu/peerreview

Adopted Policies:
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE); Anti-Racist Scholarly Reviewing Practices: A Heuristic for Editors, Reviewers, and Authors

Additional Information

Last Year:
In the past year, we have hired a new Open Access Publishing Manager and shifted the responsibilities for several of our librarians. The Open Access Publishing Manager supports our open access policy deposits and our institutional repository. The Digital Publishing Librarian now manages our institutional repository and a library publishing service for long-form texts and grey literature. The OA Publishing Manager and the Digital Publishing Librarian have overseen the upgrade of our repository platform to the latest version, DSpace 7. The Open Education Librarian supports Open Educational Resource (OER) creation and publication and our course materials fellowship program. The Open Publishing Librarian supports the 50-plus journals published through our open access journal publishing program. He has recently onboarded a new journal, developed a Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) application guide, and an equitable peer review toolkit.

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Future Plans:
In the future, we plan to further expand and improve our services for OERs, our institutional repository, and for our journal and long-form publishing programs. We are planning to develop an OER update program to support our OER fellows in revamping their past work. For our IR, we are developing strategies to manage accessibility remediation, user interface improvements, and increased use due to Office of Science and Technology Policy requirements for repository deposit. For our long-form texts and grey literature service, we will explore library database cataloging and cataloging in publication data and hope to offer more substantial graphic design and data visualization support. For our journal publishing program, we plan to update our platform, to increase our collaboration with the IU Press, to develop accessibility resources, to offer increased training and education, and to revamp our policies and guidelines.

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