building a collaboration for digital publishing
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Building a
Collaboration
for Digital
PublishingHARRIETT GREEN
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
ASALH, SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Print and the digital in
scholarship
“While in the past we might have thought of the
scholarly record as consisting primarily of text-based materials like journals and monographs, today the
cohort of materials over which the scholarly record
can potentially extend has expanded dramatically,
to include research data sets, computer models,
interactive programs, complex visualizations, lab
notebooks, and a host of other materials.”
OCLC, The Evolving Scholarly Record
What is Scholarly
Communications?
“The system through which research and other
scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality,
disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use. The system includes both
formal means of communication, such as
publication in peer-reviewed journals, and informal
channels, such as electronic listservs.”
Association for College and Research Libraries
Digital publishing:
What Is It?
Use of multi-media tools and digital technologies to
publish content in digital form
Elizabeth Povinelli,
“Digital Futures,”
Vectors Journal (2011)
http://vectorsjournal.or
g/issues/6/povinelli/07/
Digital Publishing:
Background
Emergence of the Internet possibility for open,
accessible scholarly literature
Early initiatives: ArXiV, BioMed Central, PubMed Science
Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002
Berlin Declaration of Open Access, 2003
Open Access
“The old tradition is the willingness of scientists and
scholars to publish the fruits of their research in
scholarly journals without payment, for the sake of inquiry and knowledge. The new technology is the
internet. The public good they make possible is the
world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-
reviewed journal literature and completely free and
unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars,
teachers, students, and other curious minds.”
Budapest Open Access Initiative
Open Access and the
Humanities
“Open-access scholarship has the potential to reach
a broad spectrum of potentially interested publics.
We in the humanities often resist opening our work to these publics, however, fearing the consequences of
such openness….
The problem, of course, is that the more we close our
work away from the public and the more we refuse
to engage in dialogue across the boundaries of the
academy, the more we undermine that public’s
willingness to fund our research and our institutions.”
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (2013)
Why consider digital
publishing?
“Increasing the discoverability of scholarly work on
the web, making it available to a broader
readership, is a good thing, not just for the individual
scholar but for the entirety of the field in which he or she works.”
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (2013)
Digital Publishing Platforms
Omeka
Scalar
Wordpress
Custom-built
Open Access Publications
PLoS One
https://www.plos.org/
Digital Humanities Quarterly
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/
Institutional Repositories
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
Student and faculty publications
“Gray Literature” (e.g., conference proceedings,
white papers, reports)
Datasets
https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/
http://figshare.com/
https://commons.mla.org/
Digital Publishing:
What do you need?
Expertise
Technology
Buy-In
Expertise
Librarians in:
Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship
Scholarly Communications
Digital Curation
And many more!
Digital Scholarship Centers
Scholarly Commons
Media Commons
Educational Technology Centers
Scholarly Commons
University of Illinois Library
“The Scholarly Commons is a technology enriched
space for faculty, researchers, and graduate
students to pursue research and receive expert
copyright, data, digital humanities, digitization,
scholarly communications, and usability consultation
services.”
http://www.library.illinois.edu/sc
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Who Is in the Scholarly
Commons?
Experts and Librarians in:
Data services
Scholarly publishing and copyright
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Digital Humanities
Instructional services
Web usability lab
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Campus Partnerships
• Graduate College
• Survey Research Lab
• Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning
• Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and
Social Sciences (I-CHASS)
• Research Data Services
• Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
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Technology and
Infrastructure
What are your goals for digital
publishing?
What kind of technology support is
available to you?
What kind of functionality and features
do you want?
Many Options…
Buy In
Why should faculty and students care
about digital publishing and open
access?
Broad Promotion of scholarship
Higher impact
Public access to research (esp.
federally funded)
Impact:
Research Publications
McKenzie Wark, “Totality for Kids,” Vectors Journal
http://vectors.usc.edu/
Impact: Student Research
http://project500.omeka.net/
https://ugresearchjournals.illinois.edu/index.php/ujlc
Impact: Networks of
Scholarship
Credits: http://www.wellesley.edu/sites/default/files/altmetrics-ris.png
The Future of Scholarly
Publishing in the Digital
Age
Build collaborations: cross-disciplinary, multi-
institutional, and international
Develop skills and expertise in new areas of digital
media and publishing
Envision potential new audiences and publics
Citations
Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002), http://budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, “Giving it away: Sharing and the future of scholarly communication,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 43 (2012): 347-362. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jsp.43.4.347
History 364, “Project 500” http://project500.omeka.net
Elizabeth Povinelli, “Digital Futures,” Vectors Journal (2011) http://vectorsjournal.org/issues/6/povinelli/07/
McKenzie Wark, “Totality for Kids,” Vectors Journal (2013), http://vectorsjournal.org/issues/7/totality/
THANK YOU!
Harriett Green
English and Digital Humanities Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Twitter: @greenharr