Across the Great Divide: Findings and Possibilities for Action from the 2016 Summit Meeting of Academic Libraries and University Presses with Administrative Relationships (P2L)

The library-press relationship explored in P2L allows for transformative approaches in support and dissemination of scholarship. Effective exploitation of these partnerships is in the early stages and there is an opportunity to influence the outcomes to ensure they are as broadly applicable and scalable as possible. As Cliff Lynch (CNI) noted in his summary of the day’s conversation, we must do more exploration of both intra-institutional (library and press) and cross-institutional collaborations. He provided several compelling suggestions for partnerships, including new ways to promote and leverage library special collections as well as ideas for increasing discoverability of press content. (See Appendix 5 for the full text of his remarks.) Addressing the challenges around implementing the ideas and recommendations resulting from P2L and moving toward the library and press futures that participants and speakers envision requires broader and deeper investigation. Building on the success of P2L, a subsequent summit (P2L2) will continue the collaborative conversation, tackle the issues raised as well as others facing library-press partnerships, and delve deeply into the recommendations from this meeting as well as those proposed in other contexts. Open to a wider audience, P2L2 will be structured to allow more time for moderated discussion. Sessions focused on collaboration, both intra- and inter-institutional, would be paramount. Examples could include creating and leveraging shared skills, sharing support for data within the university and in the press author pool, and partnering on scalable scholarly communication and library publishing programs. P2L2 would focus on strategies to reinforce the library and press joint mission and advance the shared goal of promulgating scholarship

University Presses and Academic Libraries Demystified: A Conversation

Picking up the thread from last year’s Charleston plenary on the past, present, and future of university presses, panelists engage in a structured discussion designed to demystify the behind-the-scenes workings of presses and libraries and to chart the paths to successful service to the academic community. Each panelist opens with a brief statement, “One thing I wish everyone knew about publishers/libraries...” Discussion of these key topics will follow: Change is the only constant: What is something that is changing/revolutionizing your work? How does that affect your scholarly counterparts? Open access material: What is price access and how does the question of tenure fit into this discussion? What works for your operation now? What are some possibilities for the future? Money: What is the true cost of making books as well as the true cost of buying those books? What resources do our operations need for true service that is also sustainable? Two sides of the same coin: Why do libraries and university presses still need each other? What is it that our counterparts do for us and for our operations

Across the Great Divide: Findings and Possibilities for Action from the 2016 Summit Meeting of Academic Libraries and University Presses with Administrative Relationships (P2L)

The library-press relationship explored in P2L allows for transformative approaches in support and dissemination of scholarship. Effective exploitation of these partnerships is in the early stages and there is an opportunity to influence the outcomes to ensure they are as broadly applicable and scalable as possible. As Cliff Lynch (CNI) noted in his summary of the day’s conversation, we must do more exploration of both intra-institutional (library and press) and cross-institutional collaborations. He provided several compelling suggestions for partnerships, including new ways to promote and leverage library special collections as well as ideas for increasing discoverability of press content. (See Appendix 5 for the full text of his remarks.) Addressing the challenges around implementing the ideas and recommendations resulting from P2L and moving toward the library and press futures that participants and speakers envision requires broader and deeper investigation. Building on the success of P2L, a subsequent summit (P2L2) will continue the collaborative conversation, tackle the issues raised as well as others facing library-press partnerships, and delve deeply into the recommendations from this meeting as well as those proposed in other contexts. Open to a wider audience, P2L2 will be structured to allow more time for moderated discussion. Sessions focused on collaboration, both intra- and inter-institutional, would be paramount. Examples could include creating and leveraging shared skills, sharing support for data within the university and in the press author pool, and partnering on scalable scholarly communication and library publishing programs. P2L2 would focus on strategies to reinforce the library and press joint mission and advance the shared goal of promulgating scholarship

Library Publishing Curriculum Textbook

In the original, modular curriculum (2018) on which this textbook is based, each unit of the Library Publishing Curriculum contained an instructor’s guide, narrative, a slideshow with talking notes, bibliographies, supplemental material, and activities for use in a physical or virtual classroom for workshops and courses. This textbook version, produced in 2021, adapts the original narrative as the primary content (with very little additional editing) and incorporates the bibliographies, appendices, and images from the slideshow into a linear reading and learning experience for use by librarians or students learning on their own or as part of a classroom learning experience. The LPC hopes others use and extend this CC-BY version into even more learning opportunities to help create a more equitable publishing ecosystem

University Presses : Continuity & Change

Si bien siempre es arriesgado hacer generalizaciones sobre nuestra comunidad, los editoriales de universidades norteamericanas (y sus colegas de publicación en otras instituciones sin fines de lucro) han alcanzado un punto de inflexión. En apoyo de esta propuesta, ofrezco los siguientes puntos de datos: las prensas universitarias están convirtiendo sus desafíos en oportunidades; El liderazgo de la prensa universitaria ha experimentado un cambio generacional; y las prensas universitarias están aumentando su alcance global. Para mí, lo que es más emocionante de los desarrollos que han llevado a este cambio radical es que todos están ocurriendo mientras las editoriales universitarias permanecen fieles a sus raíces, pues nunca se han desviado de de su misión histórica para garantizar la excelencia académica y cultivar el conocimiento.While it is always risky to make generalizations about our community, North American university editorials (and their publishing colleagues at other non-profit institutions) have reached a tipping point. In support of this proposition, I offer the following data points: university presses are turning their challenges into opportunities; University press leadership has undergone a generational shift; and University presses are increasing their global reach. To me, what’s most exciting about the developments that have led to this sea change is that they all are occurring while university pressesremain faithful to their roots, never straying from their historical missionto ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge

Closing Keynote

During his first twelve months as AAUP\u27s new executive director, Peter Berkery has visited over 40 university presses in order to learn first-hand the challenges and opportunities facing this critical component of the scholarly communications ecosystem. Peter will share the observations he\u27s made during his travels, offering both an environmental scan and some thoughts about the curation of scholarship in the digital age

Library Publishing Curriculum Content Module: ReadMe (Overview)

The Content Module contains six units: 1) Editorial Strategies, 2) Nuts and Bolts, 3) Publishing Long-Form Scholarship, 4) Supporting a Journals Program, 5) Developing Materials for Coursework, and 6) Working with Multi-Modal Content. Within each unit, you will find the following files: a bibliography, an instructor’s guide, a narrative, a slide deck, and supplementary activities and exercises. Start with the instructor’s guide to gain a “big-picture” sense of the topics covered, then read the narrative for an overview of the content covered in the unit. The files provide everything an instructor needs to teach the unit. These units can each stand alone or be conjoined with other units for a deeper dive into this topi

Library Publishing Curriculum Content Module: Publishing Educational Materials (Unit 5), Instructor\u27s Guide

Many universities have formal programs addressing textbook affordability. These may include committees charged with investigating the current landscape and communicating with faculty to encourage affordable options; open textbook programs supported by the library, institution, or state; or a university-press program supporting faculty in the creation of affordable course readers. How do you identify opportunities to best offset student costs with quality affordable textbooks? Do you create resources devotedto a course at your institution, or should you aim for broader course adoption? What additional non-text components may be expected by users? How do you get faculty on board with creating and adopting alternative course materials? This unit will help youbuild a program that responds to these questions

Library Publishing Curriculum Content Module: Working with Multimodal Content (Unit 6), Instructor\u27s Guide

Sometimes a text-based format will not serve an author’s need –time for a more unique presentation! When does material and research require a multi-modal product? How do you help the author create the final product, be it a database, a video, an interactive work, a website, or an online course? What kinds of files can you accept, publish, and preserve? What material requires any kind of review, and how is that review validated? Who will maintain the site and who gets credit for the creation? Do you have access to a digital humanities center or humanities librarian, and if so how do you work collaboratively with these resources? This unit will cover the fundamentals of publishing at the leading edge of digital scholarship