Library Support for Journal Publishing Emphasis on multi-modal open peer review through Ada University of Victoria, July 7, 2015 Karen Estlund, [email protected]Based on: “Publishing Ada: A Retrospective Look at the First Three Years of an Open Peer Review Multi-Modal Journal” with Sarah Hamid and Bryce Peake. Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) spring meeting, Seattle, Washington, 2015.
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Library Support for Journal PublishingEmphasis on multi-modal open peer review through Ada
Based on:“Publishing Ada: A Retrospective Look at the First Three Years of an Open Peer Review Multi-Modal Journal” with Sarah Hamid and Bryce Peake. Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) spring meeting, Seattle, Washington, 2015.
Zylinska, J. (2014) iEarth. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, No.5. doi:10.7264/N36W98CF
Ruberg, B., (2015) Curating with a Click: The Art That Participatory Media Leaves Behind. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, No.7. doi:10.7264/N3PR7T8X
“I like that it’s mentorship focused. I get to ask myself ‘how can I help make this piece publishable,’ rather than acting as some kind of gatekeeper for a competition-driven scarcity that is traditional journals.”
Comments on Articles By the Numbers
2,405 Items
Preserving Ada
Digital Preservation Process• Backup Pro Plan purchased through Bluehost• Issue Preservation - after each issue is published:
• SQL data dumps• Copy public-html directory from webserver• Harvest entire site with ArchiveIt!
• Article Preservation• Harvesting through site• Harvesting articles hosted elsewhere with ArchiveIt!• Media files requested in highest resolution and sent via FTP to web team for integration into UO Libraries digital preservation processes
Preserving Multi-Modal
Harvesting Multi-Modal
Questions of Indexing
Scheduling Editorial & Production Team
Slide content by Sarah Hamid
Project Management & Documentation
Documentation & Manual Labor
Slide content by Sarah Hamid
Spam
Assessment
Some Metrics
Metric-driven writing + building● web is set up for articles about the web to succeed
○ 94k inbound links, 19k were originally pinged by our articles.
Slide content by Bryce Peake
Metric-driven writing + building● People who show up not for a specific article are going
to issues, but not in ‘lead article’ order○ We now randomize article order on front page.
Slide content by Bryce Peake
Comparators
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BenchmarksDigital Commons
Journals-Ave. Downloads per article
at end of 2013: 297
Ada-Not Downloadable!
-1691 Pageviews per article (eliminating quick exits) -1559 PageViews per article
for year 1 (eliminating quick exits)
“Library-led Publishing with bepress Digital Commons: Data and Benchmarks Report” (July 2014)http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=journals