Indiana University Bloomington

Indiana University Libraries

Academic Library · United States

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 (textbooks/course modules)
Posters

Journal Publishing:

Journals published: 24
Campus-based faculty-created: 10
Campus-based student-created: 3
Contracted by external groups: 8
Peer-reviewed: 20
Currently inactive or archived: 17

Open Educational Resources Publishing:

Open Educational Resources: 1

Highlights

Top Publications:

Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (journal)
Studies in Digital Heritage (journal)
International Journal of Designs for Learning (journal)
Textual Cultures (journal)
Indiana University Journal of Undergraduate Research (journal)

Disciplinary Specialties:

Folklore
Education
Cultural heritage
Student research

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:

audio
data
images
multimedia
text
video

Software & Platforms:

DSpace
Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Pressbooks
WordPress

Additional Services:

assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
Indexing services (e.g.
author advisory - other
author advisory - copyright
DOI distribution
analytics
audio/video streaming
cataloging
contract/license preparation
copyediting
data visualization
dataset management
DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
graphic design (print or web)
hosting of supplemental content
image services
ISSN registry
metadata
outreach
peer review management
print-on-demand
training
typesetting

Digital Preservation Strategy:

CLOCKSS

Policies

Antiracism policy, Diversity, equity, and inclusion statement, Editorial board policy, Open access policy, Peer review policy

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:

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.

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.

Highlighted Publication

International Journal of Designs for Learning

International Journal of Designs for Learning is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to publishing descriptions of artifacts, environments, and experiences created to promote and support learning in all contexts by designers in any field. Published semiannually, the journal provides a venue for designers to share their knowledge-in-practice through rich representations of their designs and detailed discussion of decision-making.