Building Support for Open Access: a comprehensive program at the University of Pittsburgh Timothy S. Deliyannides Director, Office of Scholarly Communication.

Building Support for Open Access: a comprehensive program at the University of Pittsburgh

Timothy S. DeliyannidesDirector, Office of Scholarly Communication and PublishingUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh

PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2013August 20, 2013

Vanessa GablerElectronic Publications ManagerUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh

Open Access: key to strategic plan for Innovation in Scholarly Communication

Support researchers in – efficient knowledge production– rapid dissemination of new research– open access to scholarly information

Build collaborative partnershipsaround the world

Improve the production and sharing of scholarly research

Support innovative publishing services

Establish trusted repositories for the research output of the University

A Comprehensive Program for OA

Support for Gold Open Access: – Publishing journals, books and conference proceedings– Open Access Author Fee Fund; COPE

Support for Green Open Access:– 6 global, subject-based repositories– Local institutional repository and OA Mandate

Learning and teaching about OA

Advocacy and support for our OA partners

Measuring and marking success

Why become a Publisher?

Incentivize Open Access

Transform the subscription pricing system that punishes libraries and scholars

Provide services that scholars understand, need and value

Deepen our understanding of scholarly communications issues

ULS E-Journal Publishinghttp://www.library.pitt.edu/e-journals

35 scholarly journals published by ULS

42 additional journals hosted by ULS (through Scholarly Exchange® hosting service)

Most are Open Access (CC-BY is standard)

Based on PKP Open Journal Systems (OJS)

Editorial teams are located around the world

Six journals have multilingual content

Hardware platform

ISSN registration

Assignment of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)

Consultation on editorial workflow and management

Advice on best practices in e-publishing

Graphic design services

Custom article template design

Added-Value Services beyond OJS

Web-based training for editorial staff

Hosting of back issues

Registration with major abstracting and indexing services

Web site usage statistics

Marketing and promotion

Archiving and preservation (LOCKSS)

Print on demand (Espresso Book Machine)

Added-Value Services beyond OJS (continued)

Journal Publishing Strategies

Maintain quality and academic integrity

Choose partners carefully

Rely on self-sufficient editors

Work smart, not hard

Keep costs low

Ongoing monitoring/evaluation of academic quality

Ensuring and Maintaining Quality

Selection Criteria

Publications Advisory Board– Advises on major policy decisions– Reviews journal proposals

Periodic Review of Journal Content

Periodic Review of Peer Review Process

Assessment of Research Impact

Journal proposal form

About our program (PowerPoint)

Service agreement

Author copyright agreement

Communication protocol

Web site design brief

Article template questionnaire

“Establishing your own domain name” setup guide

Google Analytics account setup documentation

Documentation to aid the process

Innovation in peer reviewDialogic Pedagogy: An International Online Journalhttp://dpj.pitt.edu

• 2 parallel OJS sites

• Initial check for scope by Editors

• Submission is posted immediately on community forum for public comment

• Simultaneous traditional peer review

• Peer reviewer comments are posted to the public comment forum for additional discussion for 4 weeks

• Final acceptance decision is made by the Editors

• Refereed content is formally published in a separate area.

Scholarly Exchange®

http://www.scholarlyexchange.org

42 additional Open Access journals

Acquired by the ULS on August 1, 2012

Hosting service only

ULS is NOT the publisher and does not provide full publishing services

Benefits small journals in low-resource settings

Open Access Monographs - an early experiment

Press Digital Editions– collaborative project between Press and

Library– 750 books digitized by ULS – includes both in-print and out-of-print

titles– all are Open Access– increased sales for some titles

Monographic publishing for new content

Based on PKP’s Open Monograph Press (OMP)

Pitt participating in early testing and software development

forthcoming titles:– Rescher, Nicholas. Leibniz and cryptography: an account

on the occasion of the initial exhibition of the reconstruction of Leibniz’s cipher machine

– Russell, Daniel S. The emblem and device in France

Author Self-archiving Repositories (Eprints)

2001 PhilSci Archive

2001 Electronic Theses & Dissertations

2002 Archive of European Integration

2003 Minority Health Archive

2003 Aphasiology Archive

2009 D-Scholarship@Pitt (general Institutional Repository)

2010 Industry Studies Working Papers

2012 Archive for Essential Limb Care

Conference Hosting

Based on PKP’s Open Conference Systems (OCS)

Complements other Open Access repositories

Offered to publishing partners only

Authors must agree to perpetual Open Access

Pennsylvania Digital Library

Based on PKP’s Open Harvester Systems

Uses OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

Includes digital collections from universities, public libraries, and cultural institutions

Content is by, for, or about Pennsylvania

Documents in repositories and journals

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Subject based archives and repositories

e-journals

Growth in number of titles published

Sustaining our publishing program

Since July 1, 2012, we charge fees for services to all new publishing partners

We incentivize Open Access through subsidies

We subsidize Pitt publications

Pitt student publications are still free!

Advocacy for OA publishing

First library publisher in North America to join the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)

Founding member of Library Publishing Coalition

Member of Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE)

Major Development Partner for Public Knowledge Project (PKP)

Learning and teaching about OA Pitt Open Access Web site (openaccess.pitt.edu)

Lunch and learn series for liaison librarians– Monthly series of informal talks– 24 topics on wide range of Open Access & scholarly

communications issues– Inform ourselves and strategize how we can best talk to our

patrons about the issues

Outreach to the university community– Faculty and student orientations– Elevator talks– Open Access Week activities

Measuring success: altmetrics

Aggregates dozens of traditional and new measures

Coming soon: article-level altmetrics widget imbedded in OJS journals

Altmetrics pilot project (PlumX by Plum Analytics)

http://www.library.pitt.edu/e-journals