CDL: ALA MW - ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group Meeting

 	ALA MW - ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group Meeting

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ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group Meeting
 

Time: Saturday, January 31, 2015, 1:00-2:30

Location: McCormick Place West, W176a

http://alamw15.ala.org/node/25852

Please join us for three presentations on scholarly communications services.  

Supporting Open Access Publishing via Open Journal Systems  One Librarys
experience
Beth Bernhardt, UNC-Greensboro 

Academic libraries have traditionally purchased journals that hold content
created by their researchers. With the growing push for open access, libraries
now have opportunities to assist their faculty members in creating and providing
scholarly content directly to users. One such endeavor is Open Journal Systems
(OJS), a software system developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), and
created specifically to facilitate open access scholarly publishing. 

In 2010, The UNC Greensboro University Libraries started providing support for
faculty who wished to publish open access journals through OJS. The library
currently hosts seven journals, with two more in development. This presentation
will discuss our experience in implementing OJS, training faculty to use it, and
issues and discoveries made along the way.

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Library Funding of Open Access Publication Fees: Effects on Faculty Behavior and
Attitude
Jonathan Nabe and Andrea Imre, Southern Illinois University Carbondale 

As part of the effort to provide an alternative to unsustainably priced
subscription-based journals, some academic libraries have established funds to
cover article processing charges in open access journals for faculty.  One of
the aims of such funds is to increase awareness of and participation in open
access publishing, beyond the individual articles funded.  There has been little
or no reported analysis on the effectiveness of such funds in changing faculty
publishing patterns.  Our presentation will provide an assessment of the effects
of a library open access fund on funded authors attitudes and subsequent
publishing behavior.  We will provide background information on the  SIU COPE
(SIU Carbondale Open-Access Publishing Equity) Fund, established in 2011, and
provide results from publication history and survey analysis.
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A For-Fee Scholarly Publishing Service Based in the Library
Kevin S. Hawkins, University of North Texas 

The University of North Texas is launching a new library-based service to
publish works of scholarship, both new and reissued, from the UNT community. All
publications, published under the Eagle Editions imprint, are freely available
to read online, and some are also be available in print, e-books, or both.  The
cost to publish varies by the services chosen by the publishing partner; prices
are based on fees charged by freelancers and vendors that carry out editing and
design tasks. 

Libraries staff members advise on options for distribution in print and e-book
formats, partnering with the UNT Press on some projects but generally leaving
authors to make arrangements with distributors.  This presentation will give an
overview of this new service and its fee structure.
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A brief business meeting will follow the presentations.
 

Doug Way
Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group
Associate University Librarian for Collections and Research Services
University of Wisconsin-Madison
doug.way_at_wisc.edu 

Anneliese Taylor
Vice-Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group
Assistant Director, Scholarly Communications & Collections
University of California-San Francisco
anneliese.aaylor_at_ucsf.edu