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Publishing Within The Institutional Repository
Publishing Within The Institutional Repository
Publishing Within The Institutional Repository
Scholarly publishing today Changing role of Libraries Convergence of Institutional repositories (IRs and Publishing) IRs as archives alone tend to fail Strategies for Publishing as a Service
Historical perspective
Scholarly publishing was largely based on the principle of gifts: authors give their treatises to others in exchange for access to theirs.
In the 1960s, commercial publishers began to produce scholarly journals and charge prices that produced a profit for them. This profit motive now drives many scholarly societies as well
David Shulenburger, Vice President for Academic Affairs, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), in the closing keynote, SPARC Digital Repositories meeting, November 2008
Publishing today
Vice Chancellors for Research and Deans are witnessing the gradual diminution of publishing options and opportunities for UC faculty, particularly in the arts and humanities.
Junior faculty are beginning to struggle to get the book contracts they need for tenure and promotion; faculty working in innovative fields or non-traditional projects are constrained by a publishing model that cannot serve their needs; and campus resources are increasingly compromised by the commercial publishing culture
University of California taskforce on University Publishing. 2008 by Catherine Candee & Lynne Withey
Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing. Karla Hahn, March 2008. Published by ARL
University of California taskforce on University Publishing. 2008 by Catherine Candee & Lynne Withey
Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing. Karla Hahn, March 2008. Published by ARL
Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing. Karla Hahn, March 2008. Published by ARL
I went to dozens of department meetings and gave my spiel seeking to recruit participants who would upload their own articles. Response rate: <10%
Maybe I need a new metaphor?
IR deposit is not an end in itself It should be a byproduct of the services you provide to your institutions. You provide services, you solve problems, and as a byproduct of that you get content in your repository. IR initiatives are ambitiously striving to make advancements in both [collection and service] areas, by offering alternatives to publisher-controlled access to scholarship, enhancing dissemination of grey literature and management of data sets, and building tools and services to promote growth and exploitation of content.
Catherine Mitchell, CDL. from Mellon Report on IR CIC success, Palmer et al.
Out with jargon & in with benefits Assertive & persistent outreach methods
Use of several different methods to contact faculty
Institutional Repository Colloquium Building an Institutional Repository For Your Campus Colloquium, by Marisa Ramirez. San Luis Obispo, CA, 10, 2008 October October 10, 2008.
Early Wins
Thought leaders (administration)
Opinion leaders (key faculty) Unexpected champions (campus entities)
A collaboration between the UC Davis John Muir Institute of the Environment, the State of California The Resources Agency and the US Federal Dept of the Interior.
Contributions in Black Studies: A Journal of African and Afro-American Studies (CIBS) was launched in 1977. CIBS was a Five College collaboration of Africana Studies scholars at UMass Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Amherst, and Smith Colleges. that lasted over two decades. The journal ceased publication in the 1999.
Issue page
Open access journals: University Presses looking for low-cost options and collaborations with the Library.
Reviews and outreach to external communities that need to share in the Universitys expertise
Editors and small societies looking for a home for their journals and publications
The Electronic Green Journal (EGJ) is one of the first peerreviewed environmental online journals promoting an open access publishing model. Since its inception in July of 1994, the EGJ has allowed all Internet users unrestricted access to original articles, book reviews, and information on international environmental topics.
Originally started in 1971 as a print journal. The Library persuaded the editors to switch to electronic format in 2003. This is a subscription-based journal
Publishing within DC allows additional content, providing a rich context for the journal
Res Publica is a nice example of a journal celebrating the scholarship of undergraduate students. Faculty selected those papers that make the most contribution to Political Science
ETDs
The ability to store and disseminate original research by Masters & PhD students is powerful, both for the student and the university
Cal Poly's President Baker sees the repository as a place to show off Cal Poly students' senior portfolios. He got excited when he understood that he could point prospects and their parents to the portfolios as examples of what their student can accomplish at Cal Poly.
Paraphrased from a speech by Michael Miller, Dean of Library Services, Cal Poly, Closing Remarks, Putting Knowledge to Work: Building an Institutional Repository for Your Campus, October 10th, 2008.
An annual conference at UMass that is expanding to a journal and supporting materials like a downloadable poster
A one-time conference. The library hosted a Colloquium on IRs on Oct 2008. The presentations by Marisa Ramirez and Brian Kennelly are particularly interesting.
As of Jan 22, 2009, SPARC has established a resource center for library publishing
You have the people. Your subject librarians talk to your faculty. They know where the research is happening.
You have the expertise. The library is an expert in the management, preservation and dissemination of scholarly communications. You have the technology. The repository is the technology that can preserve, publish, and publicize. Why should the library care? As a publisher and service-provider, the library has the chance to establish itself as the hub of campus wide scholarly communications.