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Publishing within the

Institutional Repository (IR)

Tim Tamminga, The Berkeley Electronic Press

ALA Midwinter - 2009


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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

Examples of Publishing within the IR


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Issues with scholarly publishing


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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


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Publishing today

Vice Chancellors for Research and Deans arewitnessing the gradual diminution of publishing optionsand opportunities for UC faculty, particularly in the artsand humanities.

Junior faculty are beginning to struggle to get the bookcontracts they need for tenure and promotion; facultyworking in innovative fields or non-traditional projects areconstrained by a publishing model that cannot servetheir needs; and campus resources are increasinglycompromised by the commercial publishing culture

University of California taskforce on University Publishing. 2008

by Catherine Candee & Lynne Withey


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Small scholarly publishers are struggling

Many small publishers struggle with declining

subscription bases, particularly domestically and

even research libraries report regular journal

cancellations projects. Most of the journals thatare lagging in the development of electronic

formats are from publishers who print one or a

handful of titles

Research Library Publishing Services: New Options

for University Publishing. Karla Hahn, March 2008. Published by ARL


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Small societies are struggling

Most small societies have a journal or

newsletter. The societies cannot sustain these

publications in print form. They also are losing

members, especially younger members. They dont know how to transition from print to

electronic

Publications tend to lack the credentials of more

mainstream journals Additional services are needed to retain members

and keep them involved


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Libraries are struggling economically

January 19, 2009. Email from theInternational Coalition of Library Consortia(ICOLC) to the world:

The ICOLC library consortia consider the current[economic] crisis of such significance that wecannot simply assume that libraries and publishers

share a common perspective about the magnitudeof the crisis and the best approaches to cope withit.


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Role of the Library in Changing

publishing paradigms


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Role of the Library and the

University in Publishing

UC faculty would like to see the university

play a more active role in blunting the

effect of the commercialization of

academic publishing, but they will not andcannot risk their own academic lives to

make it happen. The university must step

in.

University of California taskforce on University Publishing. 2008

by Catherine Candee & Lynne Withey


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Library publishing services are

happening now

65% of ARL libraries are delivering or

planning to provide publishing services

Of these, 88% were publishing journals

79% were publishing conference papers &

proceedings

71% were publishing monographs




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Publishing Services not isolated

Publishing services are not usually

treated as an isolated operating unit, the

way a university press might be. They are

typically embedded in an emergingprogram of related servicesdigital

repository development




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Convergence of Publishing and

Institutional Repositories (IRs)


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The IR as a repository alone has

limited value for the university

-Faculty dont care and dont

contribute

-Provosts and Deans dont bless or

fund because the IR doesnt seem

relevant to their strategic mission


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Paul Roysters initial approach to get faculty

content

I started out armed with a slick PowerPoint

presentation showing 1) the advantages of

having your articles online in an open-access

repository, and 2) how easy it was to do. I went to dozens of department meetings and

gave my spiel seeking to recruit participants who

would upload their own articles.

Response rate:


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If you build it, they will come.W. P. Kinsella, Field of Dreams

A baseball fantasy ....


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Yogi Berra (looking at the empty seats inClevelands Municipal Stadium):

If people wanna stay

away, nobody can make

em.

Baseball reality ....


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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 makeadvancements 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, andbuilding tools and services to promote growth and

exploitation of content.

Catherine Mitchell, CDL. from Mellon Report on IR CIC success, Palmer

et al.


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One of those services can and should be

Publishing

This suggests a role for the IRs beyond that of

archival storage and accessibility enhancement: in

fact, they are well-suited to become online

publishers giving voice to a wide range of authors

normally excluded, put off, or ill-served by the

vagaries, idiosyncrasies, delays, obligations, and

hoops-jumping of the conventional publicationroutes.

Paul Royster, "Publishing Original Content in an

Institutional Repository" Serials Review(2007).


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Strategies for publishing as part of the

Librarys portfolio of IR services


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October 10, 2008

Developing the Service Model Positioned not as a technology but a set of

services

Profile creation, digitization, copyright clearance,

description & upload on behalf of the faculty

Out with jargon & in with benefits

Assertive & persistent outreach methods

Use of several different methods to contact faculty

Institutional Repository Colloquium

Build ing an Institut ion al Repos itory For Your Camp us Colloq uium , by Marisa Ramirez. San Luis Obisp o, CA ,

October 10, 2008.


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October 10, 2008

Early Wins Thought leaders (administration)

Opinion leaders (key faculty)

Unexpected champions (campus entities)

Institutional Repository Colloquium


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October 10, 2008Original photograph by Jesse Millan
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Examples of publishing services


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Size of institution is no barrier


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Collaborative projects between the

university and external partners


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Regional andcollaborative

publishing


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A collaboration

between the UCDavis John Muir

Institute of the

Environment, the

State of California

The Resources

Agency and theUS Federal Dept

of the Interior.


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Preservation of discontinued

publications


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Contributions in

Black Studies: AJournal of African

and Afro-American

Studies (CIBS)was

launched in 1977.

CIBSwas a Five

College

collaboration of

Africana Studiesscholars at UMass

Amherst,

Hampshire, Mount

Holyoke, Amherst,

and Smith Colleges.

that lasted over two

decades. The

journal ceased

publication in the

1999.


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Issue page


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Collaborations with the

university press


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Open access journals:University Presses

looking for low-cost

options and

collaborations with the

Library.


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Reviews and

outreach to

externalcommunities that

need to share in

the Universitys

expertise


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Editors and small societies

looking for a home for their

journals and publications


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The Electronic Green

Journal (EGJ) is one

of the first peer-

reviewed

environmental on-

line journals

promoting an open

access publishing

model. Since itsinception in July of

1994, the EGJ has

allowed all Internet

users unrestricted

access to original

articles, bookreviews, and

information on

international

environmental topics.


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Scholarly niche or specialty

journals


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Originally started in

1971 as a print

journal. The Librarypersuaded the

editors to switch to

electronic format in

2003.

This is asubscription-based

journal


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Publishing

within DCallows

additional

content,

providing a rich

context for the

journal


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University centers or institutes

who need a forum to share their

research


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UMass Amhersts

Center for Etruscan

Studies


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DC supports

creation ofvaluable

collections

as part of

the

publishing

service


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New sources of original

contentstudent journals


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Journals for or

about students.

Student-run

journals

Journals page at

Illinois Wesleyan

University


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Res Publica is a nice

example of a journalcelebrating the

scholarship of

undergraduate

students. Faculty

selected those papers

that make the mostcontribution to Political

Science


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ETDs


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The ability to store

and disseminate

original research

by Masters & PhD

students is

powerful, both for

the student and

the university


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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.


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Conferences, proceedings & workshops

Events

Handling submissions

Peer review for selection of papers

Proceedings and presentationsmanaging and

displaying


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An annual

conference at

UMass that is

expanding to

a journal and

supportingmaterials

like a

downloadable

poster


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A one-timeconference. The

library hosted a

Colloquium on IRs

on Oct 2008.

The presentations

by Marisa Ramirez

and Brian Kennelly

are particularly

interesting.


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Non-journal publications

e.g., dictionaries


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Dictionaries,encyclopedias

and reference

works


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Could even

provide alternative

revenue streams


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As of Jan 22,

2009, SPARC

has established

a resource

center for

library

publishing


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The Library has the structure in place:

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.

As a publisher and service-provider, the library has the

chance to establish itself as the hub of campus wide

scholarly communications.

Why should the library care?

Basic principles of having a successful


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Basic principles of having a successful

publishing service

Establish a business case aligned with the

university mission and mandates

Ensure that Provosts and Deans arepartners and stakeholders

Align customer-facing librarians with the

project Research, plan, market, publicize and sell

on an ongoing basis

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