Assessing the Success of Library Published Journals

In 2015, the University of Minnesota (UMN) Libraries launched a publishing program. Following in the footsteps of earlier library publishing initiatives, the program seeks to serve campus by providing an affordable venue for publishing quality open access journals and other openly accessible formats. However, given UMN Libraries Publishing’s diverse portfolio and its non-traditional business model, assessing the program’s success required innovative thinking that did not depend on sales figures or disciplinary-specific metrics. This paper will discuss UMN Libraries Publishing’s development of journal-level goals to assess publication-level success and, in turn, assess the success of a library publishing program. The paper will present examples of journal goals, templates for editorial boards, and timelines for publishing workflows related to assessment

Scholarly Communication in the Context of Digital Literacy: Navigation and Decision Making in a Complex Landscape

As digital technologies have come to dominate the conduct and dissemination of scholarship, seasoned and budding scholars alike may have little knowledge of what happens with the data that are gathered from their scholarly products, online profiles, and community platforms. Growing commercialization, mergers, buyouts, and venture capital investment lend credence to the idea of research results as “big data” to be mined and scholarly communication as “big business”. The scope of the issues that now govern the funding and sharing of knowledge is formidable and international. How does one even begin to understand what is needed to navigate and make decisions in such a complex environment? Not just a concern of faculty, these issues can have profound influence on student learning, academic services, and society at large. Scholarly communication is often viewed as a mechanistic and closed system; we should reframe it in a larger context and apply concepts of digital literacy and social justice

Research Sprints: Elevating Faculty & Librarian Collaboration

Poster presented at the Academic and Research Library Division (ARLD) meeting at the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) 2019 annual conference

Taking the Leap: Implementing a Migration to OJS 3

The Public Knowledge Project announced the release of Open Journal Systems (OJS) 3 in August 2016. In addition to a more streamlined interface OJS 3 offers important functionality, including more flexible roles, new plugins, and even the ability to operationalize XML-first publishing. However, almost two years after the official release, several library publishers have not yet migrated to the newest version of OJS. In addition to the technical support needed to successfully plan and execute the migration, implementation often involves extensive outreach to editors on system changes and new functionality. At the same time, library publishers that do decide to migrate often work in isolation, asking colleagues on listservs, Github, or other online forums for advice or information about their experience migrating. There are no formal community-developed outreach materials for library publishers to share communally and implement locally. This session will present three case studies for the transition to OJS 3. One case study, from the University of Minnesota, will explore the migration from bepress to OJS 3. Two others, from Indiana University and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, will explore migrating a multi-site instance from OJS 2 to OJS 3. Each case study will be grounded in information about the library publishing program, timeline, size of the department, and level of technical support available. In addition to presenting our process for completing the migration, we will share tangible outreach materials with participants. These include communication templates, training outlines, videos, and wikis created to support journal editors transition to OJS 3. The session will also present obstacles to success, which we hope will prompt a discussion about how to improve others’ planning process and eventually build community around this topic

Low-Tech Library Publishing: Leveraging Google Apps to Extend Scholarly Communication Services

Workshop resources available here, z.umn.edu/lowtechpub, as a Google Site! Digital publishing is an increasingly requested library service that encompasses a variety of scholarly communication topics. While the demand for such services is present, technologies and infrastructure remain a challenge to libraries small and large. This workshop leverages widely available Google applications to demonstrate the potentials of using Sites, Docs, and Drive to assist in digital publishing workflows and training. Potentials and pitfalls of using Google applications will be discussed among attendees, including concerns of staffing and ethics. After interactive brainstorming, the presenter will demonstrate how University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing is leveraging Google applications to assist in training journal editors--and offering Google applications as a low-tech, light-staffing solution to extend publishing services to an increasing number of users. The majority of this workshop will be hands-on. Attendees will have the opportunity to design sample journals and templates using Google applications. Attendees will use workflow examples, provided by the presenter, and incorporate Sites, Docs, and Drive in order to best match the tools offered by subscription publishing services. Finally, attendees will spend time in the roles of author, reviewer, and editor in the mock journal. Although Google may not be the all-inclusive solution for library publishing, this workshop will provide attendees with take-away skills to assist users with some publishing needs. To best participate, attendees will need access to a Google account

404 Not Found: Discoverability and User Consumption of Open Access Material

Using the 2015 Library Publishing Directory, I have created a list of OA "campus-based faculty-driven journal" titles and cross-referenced this list with the title contents of the Directory of Open Access journals. This 24x7 presentation will present my findings of gaps within DOAJ and look for answers as to why titles are not found in both directories. Secondly, the original set of OA titles was cross-referenced in ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources) to compare the number of matching records. Finally, the list of OA journal titles was also searched within one library's discovery tool to determine the level of discoverability in a non-Google setting for a specific user group. The goal of this presentation is to begin a conversation of where OA materials are indexed, but more importantly, to think more about how users are (or are not) finding the OA material using indexes.</p

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The Radical and the Mundane: Navigating Open Research Expectations in Library Publishing

This talk presents recent developments in (non-library published) open access publications that present a bit of an adoption challenge for often labor- and cash- strapped library publishing programs. On a local level, this talk uses specific examples from a University of Minnesota Libraries published journal. Additionally, the presenter proposes ideas for strengthened outreach to the open research/science community, and offer some new ways of thinking around collaboration

ORCID Benefits for Researchers

Digital flyer created by Iowa State University Office of Scholarly Communication. Lists benefits of using ORCID and gives example of how journals are implementing ORCID. Created for faculty and researchers.<div><br></div><div>Available as PDF or Word document.</div