Keynote Speakers
Cheryl E. Ball
Cheryl is Associate Professor of Digital Publishing Studies at West Virginia University and editor of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. She teaches classes in editing, multimedia authoring, and digital publishing. Ball has published articles and webtexts on multimodal composition and digital publishing inClassroom Discourse, Computers and Composition, C&C Online, Fibreculture, Convergence, Hybrid Pedagogy, Kairos, Programmatic Perspectives, Technical Communication Quarterly, and Writing & Pedagogy. She has also published several books, including The New Work of Composing (co-edited with Debra Journet and Ryan Trauman); RAW: Reading and Writing New Media (co-edited with Jim Kalmbach); andWriter/Designer: A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects (co-authored with Kristin Arola & Jenny Sheppard). She is co-PI on a $1m Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to build an open-access, multimedia, academic publishing platform, Vega.
Dan Morgan
Dan is Digital Science Publisher at the University of California Press, and the Publisher of Collabra (Collabra.org), the Press’ new value-sharing OA journal. He joined UC Press in June 2014 to focus on mission-driven, not-for-profit, digital initiatives. He has worked in scholarly publishing for over 13 years, in publishing management, research, open access, and strategy roles. All of that time was at Elsevier where he ended up the head of the Psychology and Cognitive Sciences journals department, then Senior Manager for Open Access and other outreach for North America. He is a passionate advocate for open access, open science, and advancing scholarly communication.
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Tuesday, May 17: OER Preconference
11:30 – 1:00pm | Registration
1:00 – 2:30pm
PANEL: OERs: How and Why? [recording]
How and Why to Dramatically Decrease Textbook Costs
Amy Filiatreau, Lynn University
Jordan Chussler, Lynn University
Scaling up OER Publishing with a Networked Approach [slides]
Kate Pitcher, SUNY Geneseo
Allison Brown, SUNY Geneseo
Publishing on a Dime: Opportunities and Challenges in Creating an OER Publishing Program
Karen Bjork, Portland State University
Marilyn Billings, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2:30 – 3:15pm | LIGHTNING TALKS
OER Snapshots [recording]
Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Building Support for OER from Existing Services on Campus [slides]
Matt Ruen, Grand Valley State University Libraries
ARL SPEC Kit: Affordable and Open Educational Resource Initiatives in Libraries [slides]
Anita Walz, Virginia Tech
The Global Open Textbook Co-operative Project: New Ways to Support International Perspectives on Learning
Kevin Stranack, Simon Fraser University
3:15 – 3:45pm | Coffee Break
3:45 – 5:00pm | WORKSHOP
Setting an OER Agenda [slides]
Dave Ernst, Open Textbook Network
Sarah Cohen, Open Textbook Network
Wednesday, May 18
8:00 – 8:45am | Registration
8:45 – 9:00am | Welcome Remarks
9:00 – 10:00am | OPENING KEYNOTE
Cheryl Ball, West Virginia University
10:00 – 10:30am | Coffee Break
10:30am – 11:45am | CONCURRENT SESSIONS
PANEL: Why Did You Publish That? How University Presses and Library Publishers Choose their Projects [recording]
Karen DeVinney, University of North Texas Press (moderator)
Karen Bjork, Portland State University Library
Derek Krissoff, Director, University of West Virginia Press
Margy Avery, Amherst College Press
Kathryn Conrad, University of Arizona Press
Peter Froehlich, Purdue University Libraries
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in That House: On the Placement, Organization, and Relationships Between Library Publishing and Scholarly Communication
Meredith Kahn, University of Michigan
LIGHTNING PANEL: TOOLS & STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE YOUR JOURNAL PUBLISHING PROGRAM [recording]
Helping Fledgling Journals Leave the Nest [slides]
R. Philip Reynolds, Stephen F. Austin State University
How Library Publishing Programs Can Support Journals Leaving a Major Publisher in Favor of OA [slides]
Ted Polley, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Getting Titles into Link Resolvers [slides]
Wendy Robertson, University of Iowa
11:45am – 1:00pm | Lunch
1:00 – 2:00pm | CONCURRENT SESSIONS
PANEL: Publishing Undergraduate Scholarship: Should You Be Afraid? [recording]
Emily Symonds Stenberg, Washington University in St. Louis [slides]
Jeffrey Rubin, Tulane University [slides]
Allegra Swift, The Claremont Colleges [slides]
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: Collaborating Across Campus and the Community to Create Open Textbooks
Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Kansas State University
WORKSHOP: Publishing Assets as Linked Data with Fedora 4 (Part I)
David Wilcox, DuraSpace
Andrew Woods, DuraSpace
2:00 – 2:30pm | Coffee Break
Tour of Sandborn Music Reading Room
2:30 – 3:30pm | CONCURRENT SESSIONS
PRESENTATION: Scholarly Publishing Literacy: Reaching our Researchers [recording]
Carol Ann Borchert, University of South Florida
Jason Boczar, University of South Florida Libraries
LIGHTNING PANEL: Moving Forward Locally and Collectively [recording]
Project Management Tools to Get Us Up and Running[slides]
Kate McCready, University of Minnesota
Conducting a Comprehensive Survey of Publishing Activity at Your Institution [slides]
Meredith Kahn, University of Michigan
Project Meerkat: The Publishing Analytics Data Trust [slides]
Sarah Melton, Emory University
WORKSHOP: Publishing Assets as Linked Data with Fedora 4 (Part II)
David Wilcox, DuraSpace
Andrew Woods, DuraSpace
3:30 – 4:00pm | Coffee Break
Tour of The Factory, UNT Libraries’ Maker Space
4:00 – 5:15pm | PLENARY SESSION
PANEL: Librarian Engagement and Social Justice in Publishing [slides] [recording]
Charlotte Roh, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Emily Drabinski, Long Island University, Brooklyn
Harrison Inefuku, Iowa State University
5:30 – 7:00pm | RECEPTION & Sponsor Showcase
Thursday, May 19
9:45 – 10:00am | Registration
8:45 – 9:45am | LPC MEMBERSHIP MEETING
9:45 – 10:15am | Coffee Break
Tour of Sarah T. Hughes Reading Room, UNT Libraries Special Collections
10:15 – 10:30am | Welcome Remarks
10:30 – 11:45am | CONCURRENT SESSIONS
PANEL: A Collaborative Solution to Scholarly Publishing’s Challenges: Building the Lever Press [recording]
Margy Avery, Amherst College Press [slides]
Rebecca Welzenbach, University of Michigan
Allegra Swift, Claremont Colleges [slides]
LIGHTNING PANEL: COMMITTING TO THE NON-TRADITIONAL [recording]
Committing to the Non-Traditional: The Path to the Incorporation of 3D Models in an Online Journal [slides]
Dillon Wackerman, Stephen F. Austin State University
Dr. Robert Z. Selden, Stephen F. Austin State University
The “Georgia Coast Atlas”: Reimagining Online Atlas Publishing
Anandi Salinas, Emory University
Reading the Reader: Building a User-Centered Publishing Prototype in a Web Browser [slides]
Scott Young, Montana State University
Jan Zauha, Montana State University
Michelle Gollehon, Montana State University
WORKSHOP: OJS 3.0 and OMP 1.2: The Latest in Open Source Software for Library Publishing (Part I)
Kevin Stranack, Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
11:45am – 1:15pm | Lunch
1:15 – 2:15pm | CONCURRENT SESSIONS
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: Negotiating Prospects and Perils of Publishing Undergraduate Research
Andrew Rouner, Washington University in St. Louis Libraries
Emily Stenberg, Washington University in St. Louis Libraries
PRESENTATION: From Shoestrings to Pursestrings: Securing Funding for Small, Open-Access Scholarly Journals [slides] [recording]
Kelly Witchen, University of Michigan
Rebecca Welzenbach, University of Michigan
Allison Peters, University of Michigan
LIGHTNING PANEL: MELLON PROJECT UPDATES [recording]
Streamlining Monograph Production with Collaborative Knowledge Framework Tools [slides]
Justin Gonder, California Digital Library
Building a Hosted Platform for Managing Monographic Source Materials and Born Digital Publications [slides]
Jonathan McGlone, University of Michigan
The Costs of Publishing OA Monographs: Results from a Study of 20 University Presses [slides]
Nancy Maron, BlueSky to BluePrint
WORKSHOP: OJS 3.0 and OMP 1.2: The Latest in Open Source Software for Library Publishing (Part II)
Kevin Stranack, Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
2:15 – 2:45pm | Coffee Break
Mini-Workshop: Digital Monograph P+L (RSVP REQUIRED)
Nancy Maron, BlueSky to BluePrint
2:45 – 4:00pm | CONCURRENT SESSIONS
PRESENTATION: Amplifying Student Voices in Library Publishing through Experiential Learning [slides] [recording]
Jane Nichols, Oregon State University
Korey Jackson, Oregon State University
LIGHTNING PANEL: PUBLISHING IN THE UNIVERSITY CONTEXT [recording]
The Power to Publish: How Academic Librarians Support and Promote Scholarly Publishing [slides]
Jennifer Townes, Atlanta University Center
Emy Decker, Atlanta University Center
Changing Structures, Changing Cultures: The Role of the University in Scholarly Communication
Liz Glass, Brown University
Launching UNC Press’s Office of Scholarly Publishing Services
John McLeod, University of North Carolina Press
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: Humanities Open Access Monograph Publishing in Libraries: Opportunities and Challenges
Aaron McCollough, UIUC
Jason Colman, University of Michigan
* This session was originally proposed by Melody Layton McMahon and Lisa Gonzalez, Catholic Theological Union, who were unfortunately unable to attend the conference.