Poster presented at IUPUI Research Day, April 8, 2016Recent events in scholarly publishing, such as the editorial board of Elsevier’s
Lingua resigning en masse, shed light on the dilemma faced by many journal
editors: balancing a desire to increase impact with promoting open and
sustainable models for publishing. These two goals are not mutually exclusive.
Recently, editors and publishers are seeing success in reconciling these goals by
converting subscription-based journals to open-access, through a process
commonly called journal flipping.
The IUPUI University Library has a history of supporting the publication of
open-access scholarly journals through its Open Access Journals at IUPUI
program (http://journals.iupui.edu/). A number of titles, most notably Advances in
Social Work and Metropolitan Universities, began as subscription-based journals
that were only available in print. This poster presents the process for "flipping"
Metropolitan Universities, digitizing the full run of issues and making them
openly available via IUPUI’s instance of Open Journal Systems
