Stop Press: Libraries' Role in the Future of Publishing

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Office of Scholarly Communication

Stop Press: Libraries' Role in the Future of Publishing

Dr Danny KingsleyHead, Office of Scholarly CommunicationUniversity of Cambridge@dannykay68

Assisted by: Niamh TumeltyLibrarian, Dept of EngineeringUniversity of Cambridge@niamhpage

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• The hashtag for this session is #SLA2016 #StopPress

• There will be a series of live tweets going out as the session runs so you don’t need to frantically note urls etc.

Join in!!

OSC Contents

• Who are we?• Changing role of libraries• What is publishing• Staffing implications: recruitment and skill sets• Software, hardware and hosting options• Business plans• Engaging the community and encouraging

uptake

OSC Who are we? – govote.at

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Aren’t libraries supposed to be curators?

Why are we doing this?

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Open Web Resources Published licensed materials

Research & learning outputs

Special Collections & locally digitised

materials

Many collections

Few collections

Low stewardship

High stewardship

Emphasis has been here

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• Science 28 April 2016 “Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone” – http

://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone

• Including people who have legal access. The interface is better than the one libraries offer.

Threats

OSCCorrelation between research hotspots and Sci-Hub use

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone

OSC Which do YOU think is easier?

1. Google article, first page of results is 100% likely to contain PubMed or journal page.

2. Click relevant site.3. Copy PubMed ID or DOI (digital

object identifier; the ‘serial number’ of published online documents) to Sci-Hub main page.

4. Push enter.5. Read the article.

Yes, that’s it.

1. Load library search page.2. Click ‘journals’ in the OPAC.3. Enter the name of the journal where the article

resides.4. Select a journal from the list presented.5. Select a form of access to the journal (often this is

provided from different databases, and you need to select the right once. For instance a “Legacy” collection may only access from 1977 to 2001, and a current collection may access from 1991 to present).

6. Insert your institutional login / password.7. Wait while the hamsters in the proxy server shake off

their sawdust, adjust their tiny, adorable trousers and start turning the wheels.

8. Insert the title name in the search bar of the journal, push enter.

9. Hope it works — these have a tendency to either a) reject queries for being too long b) reject queries for not being long enough (i.e. not recognising text you pasted into the search bar), c) throwing an error because you put in a ‘special’ character, such as a semi-colon, colon, question mark, hyphen etc.

10. Click the article if the search works. If not, browse through the journal tree (Year, Volume, Page Number) until you find the right research. Click. Science time.

Why Sci-Hub Will Winhttps://medium.com/@jamesheathers/why-sci-hub-will-win-595b53aae9fa#.s7lzv9flx

Finding a paper on Sci Hub Institutional library access

OSC And publishers are moving in on our territory

See: “Watch out, it's behind you: publishers' tactics and the challenge they pose for librarians”http://www.slideshare.net/DannyKingsley/watch-out-its-behind-you-publishers-tactics-and-the-challenge-they-pose-for-librarians

OSC We need to change if we want a future

Open Web Resources Published licensed materials

Research & learning outputs

Special Collections & locally digitised

materials

Many collections

Few collections

Low stewardship

High stewardship

Emphasis needs to be

here

OSC This can be seen as a threat or an opportunity

“In the digital-world supply chain, where the internet, and not the library, has become the first point of departure for researchers, libraries have been disintermediated, cut out not only of the distribution link in the supply chain but also of establishing what is trustworthy.”

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/12/16/the-knowledge-supply-chain-in-the-internet-age-who-decides-what-information-is-trustworthy/

OSC Let’s face it -

• We need to diversify to stay relevant–We know about managing content–We have access to material that is

generated by our organisations–We have expertise and something to say–We have a relationship with our

community

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• By moving into a publishing role– We can raise visibility and status of library/information services in

the organisation– We can regain control of academic discourse– We can continue the support role Libraries have traditionally

provided.

• We are in a good position– We can showcase hidden content from our organisation– We have a captive audience - in terms of researchers or staff

members– In an academic environment can co-opt the student population

Opportunity

Image: CC BY-SA 3.0 NY http://www.thebluediamondgallery.com/tablet/b/business-opportunity.html

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What are we talking about?• Social media • Newsletters• Journals• Bibliographies• Datasets• Others?

When you say publishing…

OSC Academic content derived by the library itself

https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?page_id=2

http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/darwin_mss

OSC Internal publications

OSC Social media content created by the libraryhttp://osc.cam.ac.uk/open-access/oa-newsletters

https://twitter.com/CamOpenData

https://twitter.com/CamOpenAccess

OSCInfographics and other library promotional material

https://infograph.venngage.com/p/104975/cambridge-open-access

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But you know what – that *is* real publishing. You are doing it already!

I thought this session was about *real* publishing

OSC Real publishing - theses and grey literature

https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/253562

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https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/255394

Real publishing – rescuing academic content

http://journal.acs-cam.org.uk/

From this:• No digital indexing• No preservation• Unstable webpage

To this:• Full digital indexing• Download statistics• DOIs for all items• Sustainable archiving

OSC Or super serious publishing

ANU scholarly information services 2015 annual report - http://anulib.anu.edu.au/files/document-collection/2015-sis-annual-report.pdf

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Spectrum running from providing:

Advice to authors

A platform for material produced elsewhere

Copyediting and indexing services

Full coordination of review and editorial

Publishing means many different things

OSC Time to vote again

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There are a few things to consider:Business Case

StaffingInfrastructure

Marketing

If you are considering setting up a full publishing

service

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• The hashtag for this session is #SLA2016 #StopPress

• We want to build some shared resources.– Tweet links to resources on ‘Library as Publisher’– Tweet links to some good examples you know

about (including your own!)• If you have examples you want to share

please come up to a microphone

Join in!!

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• You will need high level buy in• Business Plan – essential

– Mission, how will it benefit your institution– What are your plans what to publish over what period– What staff and resources might we need– What is the governance structure like? – Risk analysis – you may be up against established

publishers of long standing– What is the market and demand?

Considerations and Planning

Image: David Nicholas is licensed under CC BY 2.0

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• SPARC Europe: ‘Business Plan Toolkit - Publishing an Open Access Journal’ http://sparceurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/BusinessPLAN_OAJournals_0116.pdf

Helpful

OSC Money! – How sustainable is this?

• Costs– Staff– Production costs (copy

editing, typesetting and design)

– Marketing– Infrastructure– PoD – cost of sale for

retail discount or commission 

• Revenue– Print sales – Subscription– Membership– Grants/support from

organisation. Is this secure?

Image: CC-BY www.gotcredit.com

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Who and what do we need to make it happen?

But how do we go about this?

Image: Marc Wathieu (CC BY-NC 2.0) https://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/3024646907/

OSC Providing advice

• You can do this stuff right now:– Support with getting materials indexed– Abstracting services– Advice on third party copyright– Advice on legal deposit– Advice on licences e.g. Creative Commons– Advice on access models:

green/gold/hybrid/paywall

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• Someone has to do some of this at some stage:– Development editing– Copy editing– Typesetting– Proofing– Cover design– Freelance pool management – Working on budgets and schedules

• These are outside the usual set of skills in a Library.

The other skills may not exist in your current workforce

Image: Wilhei (Own work) [CC-BY 3.0] https://www.lib.utk.edu/tndp/2013/07/26/typesetting/

OSC Staffing

• Training vs Recruiting• What roles are needed and in what

numbers?• Technical/advocacy…

Image: CC-BY-SA Europeana Creative http://pro.europeana.eu/blogpost/a-journey-s-end-is-the-beginning-of-a-new-adventur

OSC Software and hardware

• Websites– Drupal, WordPress

• Repositories– DSpace, Eprints (open source)– bepress http://www.bepress.com/ (proprietary)

• Hosting publishing platforms– Open Journal Systems https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ (open source)

• External publishing platforms– Scholastica https://scholasticahq.com/ (low cost)– Digital Commons http://www.bepress.com/editors.html

• Partnerships– Ubiquity Press http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/publish/ – Partner with a university press

Open source vs proprietary?

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What are the other challenges?

Can we talk about some examples?

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• If you have academic and editorial boards at faculty levels. Getting people to publish with you is a challenge.

• Getting credibility is difficult. • Working through the peer review process

and finding experts and getting review• Managing the author collaboration and

response to those reviews.

Acquisitions and peer review

Image: Nic McPhee (flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)

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• Barcodes and ISBN• DOIs• CC-BY licences• Copyright• Legal deposit obligations• ONIX, Nielsen/Bowker• Metadata for other platforms and services• Third party aggregators (usually commercial)• Journal indexing

Dissemination

Image by flickr user C!... CC BY 2.0

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• Marketing– Often neglected but very important, digital and

traditional – How best to reach audiences efficiently and within

small budgets– Author contribution/care – the authors are your best

advertising• Work with your existing resources within the

institution – look internally as well as externally

Marketing

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• Association of American University Presses http://www.aaupnet.org/ • Coalition for Networked Information http://www.cni.org/ • CrossRef – http://www.crossref.org/• Directory of Open Access Journals - http://www.doaj.org/ • International Digital Publishing Forum - http://idpf.org/• Library Publishing Coalition - http://www.educopia.org/programs/lpc • National Digital Stewardship Alliance -

http://digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/index.html• National Information Standards Organization - http://www.niso.org/ • OAPEN Foundation - http://www.oapen.org/home • ORCID - http://about.orcid.org/ • SPARC - http://www.sparc.arl.org// • Text Encoding Initiative Consortium - http://www.tei-c.org/

Support organisations

Image: GotCredit, CC BY 2.0

OSC Thanks and questions

• Email:– [email protected]

• Web:– www.osc.cam.ac.uk – www.data.cam.ac.uk– www.openaccess.cam.ac.uk

• Unlocking Research blog:– https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/

• Twitter: – @dannykay68 – @CamOpenData– @CamOpenAccess