1. The Library as Publisher: Increasing Library Relevance through Institutional Repository Services Richard W. Clement Dean of Libraries ALA Midwinter 2010

2. Utah’s land-grant university, founded in 1888 24,000 students; 850 faculty; four campuses 200 undergraduate, 90 masters, and 35 doctoral programs Utah’s land-grant university, founded in 1888 24,000 students; 850 faculty; four campuses 200 undergraduate, 90 masters, and 35 doctoral programs Utah State University

3. Merrill-Cazier Library Merrill-Cazier Library  New facility completed in 2005, 305,000 ft 2, nearly 2 million volumes, nearly 200 databases  Automated storage and retrieval system with the capacity for over 1.5 million new volumes  Information Commons with 150 workstations and 35 group study rooms

4. launched in November 2008

5. University Scholarly Publishing  Technical Reports  Conference Proceedings  Journals  Monographs = University Press

6. Technical Reports

7. Conference Proceedings

8. Scholarly Journals  Open Access – Born digital  Open Access – Converted and digitized  Traditional, restricted digital access  Traditional, no digital access

9. Open Access – Born digital

10. Open Access – Converted and digitized

11. Traditional, restricted digital access

12. Traditional, restricted digital access

13. Scholarly monographs

14. Traditional Publication

15. eBook Options

16. Open Access imprints

18. Open Access backlist

19. A New Publishing Model for Scholarly Monographs  Concentration on the University’s own authors in all fields and disciplines  Open Access using Digital Commons  Print on Demand option  Minimal marketing  Distribution via the Internet

20. Next Steps  Continue to assist in the conversion of the University’s journals, technical reports, and conference proceedings to Open Access in Digital Commons  Continue to help new Open Access publications startup and flourish in Digital Commons  Continue to put the Press’ backlist into Digital Commons as Open Access publications  Launch a publicity program to inform faculty authors that the Press now publishes Open Access books in all disciplines  Move most current Press books and future projects to Open Access, with a Print on Demand option

21. Our long-term goal at Utah State University is to create a scholarly publishing system based on Digital Commons to provide open and free access to all of the University’s publications.