1. Open Access Publishing: an editor’s perspective Dr
Open Access Publishing: an editor’s perspective Dr. Kevin lalor, DIT Past Editor, irish journal of applied social studies ‘Open access – open action’, 26th October 2016, dr. steevens library and the health research board

2. Origins: 1998, Emphasis on low-cost, non-profit, ease of access for practitioners (first published by the Irish Association of Social Care Educators; now a journal of Social Care Ireland)
Print run continued until 2011
Moved on-line in 2009 ( with Digital Commons (Berkeley Electronic Press)

4. Digital Commons services
On-line manuscript/review processing platform
Automated communications with reviewers/authors
Most popular papers; Special Issues; RSS feed; Download count (incl to all contributors)
178 papers generated 177,011 downloads

6. Challenges
Marketing/awareness (eg, LinkedIn group, n=400; fliers at conferences etc.)
Lack of impact factor; not included in Scopus etc. & consequent profile of submissions
Resisting ‘practice’ or ‘student’ submissions
Continuity of quality submissions (eg, approach from Sage)

7. Support
Importance of support from DIT Library and Digital Commons
Importance of active Editorial Board
Importance of Managing Editor
Importance of ‘ownership’ by IASCE and then SCI.

8. Future …
Place of small, non-profit OA publications in landscape dominated by giants such as Elsevier and Thomson Reuters … ?