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- Five years in the Scholarly Publishing Office
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2
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- It makes sense for an academic
research library to assume the role of (electronic?) publisher
- Because of our role
- Because of our concerns
- Because of our capacity
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3
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- The Scholarly Publishing Office
- Base funding for 1 director, 2 librarians coordinating and preparing
publications, 1 programmer
- Technical infrastructure provided by Digital Library Production Service
and Core Services
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4
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- Go forth and change the world
- Three probable areas of attention:
- campus-based publications
- publishing arm of Library
- for-fee publishing services
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5
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- Anything we could get our hands on
- Opportunistic acquisition
- Learn by doing
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6
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- 15 journals online or in development – mostly open access
- Small original monograph series
- Distribution for the ACLS History Ebook Project and for LLMC-Digital
- Society conference proceedings
- Publisher Assistance Program
- Robust print on demand program (20,000 ISBNs; 9000 books on Amazon.com)
- New collaborations with the University press -- digitalculturebooks
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7
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- 8 fte staff on mix of base-funding and revenue
- Small stable of freelance graphic designers, indexers and copy-editors
- In-house and outsourced digitization activities
- Statistics gathering and reporting
- OAI metadata
- Auth/Auth (ip, passwords, Athens)
- Print services (varieties of POD, SRDP, liaison for partners)
- Testing electronic peer review systems
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- What defines a real publisher?
- Which of the traditional publishing structures do we replicate, and how
do we keep from replicating inefficient and unsustainable economic
models?
- How do we convince users (both authors and readers) that the structures
we discard aren’t necessary?
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9
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- The right balance of standards and ease, of flexibility and
sustainability
- The role of peer/editorial review
- Which core principles cannot be sacrificed?
- Our relationship to institutional repositories
- What kind of investment do we make in marketing?
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10
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- More active collaboration with Press
- Broader consortial activity
- Closer alliance of disparate
campus scholarly communications efforts – Deep Blue (IR), MBlogs, TCP,
SPO
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11
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- Continue to develop flexible publishing system that provides robust
baseline functionality
- Well articulated core services and optional, for-fee services
- More activism on rights issues and economic models
- Make our role more central to the Library’s sense of itself
- Address the question of branding/prestige
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12
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- Narrower acquisitions/selection profile?
- Balance growing the product and growing the infrastructure
- Lobby hard for campus discussions on new modes of publishing and
conditions of promotion and tenure
- Develop real, working models of inter-institutional cooperative
publishing
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