Library Publishing: What’s in it for You? Marcia Stockham & Beth Turtle Kansas State University Libraries Brick & Click November 6, 2015

Agenda/Outcomes Our working definition of library publishing Why K-State chose to invest in this endeavor Benefits of belonging to a coalition Overview of current activities at K-State Potential benefits for you and your library

Definition “…the set of activities led by college and university libraries to support the creation, dissemination, and curation of scholarly, creative, and/or educational works. Generally, library publishing requires a production process, presents original work not previously made available, and applies a level of certification to the content published, whether through peer review or extension of the institutional brand. Based on core library values and building on the traditional skills of librarians, it is distinguished from other publishing fields by a preference for Open Access dissemination and a willingness to embrace informal and experimental forms of scholarly communication and to challenge the status quo.” (Library Publishing Coalition

Key Points Activities that support the creation, dissemination, and curation of scholarly, creative, and/or educational works A production process presenting original works – implies a standard of peer review or level of certification Preference for open access Informal / experimental forms of scholarly communication and challenge status quo

Today’s environment Keeping libraries relevant Changing roles of librarians – Focusing on services, building relationships and partnerships Increasing emphasis on scholarly communication issues – Copyright, fair use, open access data management – Federal mandates for grant recipients Looking at collections more holistically

Strategic reasons for publishing Provides open access to scholarly work – Peer-reviewed OA journals becoming more accepted by researchers – Federal funding mandates Provides mechanism for highlighting student research Provides mechanism for niche publishing, institutional conference proceedings, monographs, digital humanities projects and data

Concerns about Library Publishing Staff-related costs (hire/train staff) Equipment/platform costs Deciding which services to offer Other (quality of content, buy-in from stakeholders, funding sources) Sustainability Moulaison, Heather Lea and Chris le Beau. “U.S. Libraries as Publishers: Status and Concerns”. IFLA/WLIC

Library Publishing Coalition Independent community-led membership association Purpose is to support libraries involved in publishing activities Promotes collaboration and knowledge sharing and networking

LPC Publishing Directory /directory

K-State Started with pilot project to place ETDs in IR. Graduate School made electronic submission mandatory by Over 4000 ETDs now in IR plus 5500 older ETDs that have been digitized Discussions began about the library expanding publishing opportunities by starting an online imprint

New Prairie Press Founded in 2007 as an online, OA imprint devoted to journals in the Social Sciences & Humanities Launched using OJS, but later migrated to Digital Commons

Today we publish… Journals (10) Monographs (4) Conference proceedings (6) Open Textbooks (1 and another on the way) From all disciplines …

Services We provide: Full-spectrum publishing platform Training & ongoing support for editors Troubleshooting Set-up, layout & design options

Services (cont) Formatting for epubs and other mobile devices Digitization Copyright & metadata consultation Assignment of ISBN/ISSN Marketing/promotion

Digital Commons Provides Technical Support & platform upgrades Graphic Design (3 initial designs for new projects) DOI Assignment Preservation through Portico/CLOCKSS Download Statistics Indexing in DOAJ, Google Scholar, WorldCat

Services in the Future? Print on Demand Copyediting Typesetting Indexing/abstracting Fee-based services may need to be considered

Operations Budget contribute to change in the scholarly publishing system – not for profit or cost recovery no fees for our services funded from library operations budget

Operations Staffing.5 coordinator Director & scholarly communications librarian (marketing/promotion).5 paraprofessional

Operations Skill Sets Needed Strong communication & relationship-building skills for “sales”/promotion Business skills – planning, project management, marketing, business plan Knowledge of copyright/intellectual property Technical (capacity to learn software, layout, design, social media, troubleshoot)

Operations MOUs prepared for each client Workflows Every project is unique; workflows must be flexible – How does client want to utilize software – Digitization needed – Graphic design needed (book covers)

Outreach & Marketing Absolutely critical to success Takes time to build & nurture relationships Must articulate benefits of OA and insure quality/authority of library publishing Always on the look-out for new content Use liaison librarians Use social media

So, what’s in it for you? Real rewards & benefits: Building tremendous relationships with people/departments all over campus Filling a real need People are looking for a way to publish online but don’t know where to go Publications are being found & downloaded

New content – especially niche - that may have never been published is being disseminated & accessed People see the library differently Satisfying & rewarding work Scalable and strategic

Thank you! For questions, please contact: Marcia Stockham Assistant Dean, Content Management & Scholarly Communications Beth Turtle Scholarly Communications Librarian