1. Walking the Walk: Starting Up and
Cultivating Two Different Open
Access Journals in LIS
Joseph Kraus, University of Denver
Marie Kennedy, Loyola Marymount University
March 18, 2014
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3. Walking the walk?
What do I mean by this?
• Libraries try to provide as much access to as much
information as possible as economically as possible
• Many librarians are encouraged to publish
• Many librarians subscribe to and provide content to
commercial publishers
• And yet librarians complain about those commercial
publishers
• We can support and build journals that do not rely on
those traditional publishers
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7. Gratis & Libre
• “From now on, Open Access means CC-BY.”
– Heather Joseph, SPARC OA Meeting, March 2012.
• “It is about time to stop calling anything Open Access
that is not covered by CC-BY, CC-zero, or equivalent.”
– Jan Velterop, LIBLICENSE, March 2012
• Some are proponents of this, some are not.
– http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/library_talks/89/
– Paul Royster, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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8. Case 1 – Gratis
• Collaborative Librarianship
• CC-BY-NC-ND
• How did the journal start?
• What is my role with the journal
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9. Case 1 – Economics
• Balance as of November 5, 2013
–About $7,000
Income
• Donations from institutions such as Regis
University, University of Colorado Boulder,
University of Denver, and others
• Nominal income from EBSCO and Gale for
providing content
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10. Case 1 – Economics
Expenses
• Lunch meetings every once in a while
–For example, $124.94
• Domain name registration
• Printing bookmarks and business cards
• Small stipend for a columnist
• Boosting a post on Facebook
• Website redesign fee
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11. Case 1 – Economics
Expenses not incurred
• Donated time of editors
• Donated time of peer-reviewers
• Donated server space at the Colorado Alliance
of Research Libraries
• Donated time of technical services folk
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12. Case 1 – Use Data
• Total article views: 273,428 as of January 29,
2014
• OJS provides this data to administrators
• 135 citations in Google Scholar
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15. Case 2 – Libre
• Journal of Creative Library Practice
• Discuss the history of this journal
• Why Libre?
• Platform for the journal
• What are some other CC-BY LIS journals?
– Practical Academic Librarianship
– The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly
Communication
– http://jlsc-pub.org/jlsc/vol1/iss1/5/
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19. Marketing of the journals
What kind of marketing do we currently do?
• Blog posts that feed into Twitter accounts
• Press Releases
• Post to library discussion lists
• Have the journal in DOAJ and/or Library
literature databases
• (Try to) get noticed by the traditional media
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28. Do you or your team have a creative technical solution to a problem,
creative social solution, or creative policy solutions? Do you have any
creative fundraising ideas? Can you make amazing creative signage for
your library? Have you creatively designed a website? Did you employ
out of the box thinking? What worked, and what didn’t work? The
Journal of Creative Library Practice will provide an
.
This journal intends to reach librarians and information professionals of all
types, including academic, public, school, special, medical, legal, and
others. We would also like to reach out to readers interested in libraries
as well as those interested in critical information studies. Other readers
may include teachers, parents, business people or college students. If a
reader is interested in learning more about the creative use of
technologies, policies or services to enhance the exchange of information
from one person to another (or from one computer to another), then they
may be interested in this journal.
--from the About page of The Journal of Creative Library Practice
33. Do you or your team have a creative technical solution to a problem,
creative social solution, or creative policy solutions? Do you have any
creative fundraising ideas? Can you make amazing creative signage for
your library? Have you creatively designed a website? Did you employ
out of the box thinking? What worked, and what didn’t work? The
Journal of Creative Library Practice will provide an
.
This journal intends to reach librarians and information professionals of all
types, including academic, public, school, special, medical, legal, and
others. We would also like to reach out to readers interested in libraries
as well as those interested in critical information studies. Other readers
may include teachers, parents, business people or college students. If a
reader is interested in learning more about the creative use of
technologies, policies or services to enhance the exchange of information
from one person to another (or from one computer to another), then they
may be interested in this journal.
--from the About page of The Journal of Creative Library Practice
42. Questions?
• Joseph Kraus
• @OAJoe
• Joseph.kraus@du.edu
• Marie Kennedy
• @orgmonkey
• marie.kennedy@lmu.edu
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43. Notes
Here are some URLs for some of the images used.
• Ministry of silly walks,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfllaw/42360471/ CC
BY-SA 2.0
• Not just rocket science,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/swanksalot/51203085
69/ CC BY-SA 2.0
• Gratis and Libre,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5755
171802/ CC BY-SA 2.0
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