Crossposted.
Good afternoon -
Does your organization have a person dedicated to working with the journals you host? I'm not thinking the usual scholarly communication librarian, but someone whose whole job is working with hosted journals.
I manage our institutional repository, including its hosted journals. As costs associated with building and managing and publishing in journals continue to rise, our journal hosting service is becoming more and more popular. I have a lot of other duties (as do we all!) and am nearly at critical mass. Also, I'd love to offer more services to our hosted journals - currently we only offer the platform (Digital Commons) and some help with indexing and DOIs, but I'd love to offer some formatting/editing services, maybe even some peer reviewer management services. This won't really be possible without help.
I would like to propose to my library admin that we create a position to liaise with our journal hosting clients, from initial contact to ongoing maintenance. If you have such a position, I'd love to see the job description so I can get a good idea what to ask for.
Thank you!
Julie D. Shedd<https://www.library.msstate.edu/directory/julie-shedd-jed31>, MA/MLIS
Assistant Professor of Practice
Director of Open Scholarship Initiatives, MSU Libraries
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7508-9033
(662) 325-0300 | jshedd_at_library.msstate.edu<mailto:jshedd_at_library.msstate.edu>
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Received on Tue Aug 18 2026 - 15:13:59 EDT