1. Open Journal Systems Project or The UB Libraries as Publisher: Information and Roles for Liaison Librarians Charles Lyons Library Liaison Summit December 11, 2012

2. Why: Are there compelling reasons why the UB Libraries should provide publishing services? What publishing services can we realistically provide to our campus? How could we pull this off? UB Libraries as Publisher?

3. What Exactly Am I Talking About?

4. The Goals of this Initiative: Support and Make OA Publishing Easier 1.Provide a platform on which UB scholars (students, faculty and staff) can publish peer-reviewed, open-access, online journals. 2.Provide services (support, training, consultation) related to open access publishing.

5. What Have We Done So far? Implemented OJS and put up UB Libraries Today. Identifying opportunities. Creating an Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). New web page launching shortly.

6. Journals @UB Platform: Open Journal Systems (OJS) Open source, open access publishing platform

7. Why Or (Why Not)?

8. There seems to be demand. Increase the library’s relevance. Fits in the library’s mission. The crisis in publishing. Why We Should Do It?

9. Why We Should NOT Do It? Lack of resources: time, funding. Lack of expertise: publishing knowledge. Sustainability concerns.

10. What Types of Publishing Are Libraries Doing?

11. 75% of ARL’s currently have or are interested in offering publishing services. Most publish (host) from 1 and 6 journals. Most are less than three years old. Most use the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform (D-Space, BE Press are others). 2.4 FTE working on publishing. Keeping Up With the Joneses

12. Publishers versus Libraries: Where Do Library Publishers Fit? Publisher: Hiring, firing, funding Subscription Traditional Established Library: Greater Good Open Access Innovative Specialized/niche

13. Student journals. Type of Publications

14. Conference proceedings. Type of Publications

15. Departmental journals. Type of Publications

16. Association journals. Type of Publications

17. Regional and locally focused journals Type of Publications

18. What Publishing Services Could We Offer?

19. Them: journal editors / owners control the content of the publication, including editorial workflow, soliciting submissions, managing peer review, publication schedules, correspondence with authors, reviewers. Us: the UB Libraries could provide… Who Does What, Where to Draw the Lines

20. Help launching a new journal. Free server space / storage. Assistance setting up the journal up in OJS. Maintenance and updating of OJS. Training / assistance with using OJS. Design and formatting assistance. Services We Could Provide

21. Help transferring a print journal online. Help transferring an existing e-journal to the OJS platform. Digitization of back files. Services We Could Provide

22. Applying for ISSN’s. Assigning article DOI’s. Search references of articles for DOI’s. Getting the journal and articles indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Getting journal indexed in other article databases. Services We Could Provide

23. Assistance with copyright issues. Assistance with print-on-demand services. Long-term sustainable preservation of the journal’s content.

24. How Can We Make This Happen?

25. Library budget reallocations Institutional support Grant support Revenue streams Training Collaboration: SUNY Press, IT, SUNY’s Making do with what we got… Where Could the Resources Come From to Pull This Off?

26. Expertise: what skills can you (are you willing to) contribute? Identifying opportunities: publications / people that might be interested. Promotion: raising awareness. Feedback: this will have to be a group effort! Roles for You

27. Thanks! Questions?