2. Library Publishing Coalition
• Established in 2014 as a membership coalition of library publishers
after a dialogue between Educopia and 61 US academic libraries
• Aim to develop a library publishing community to foster best practice
and to promote developments
• First projects were the Library Publishing Directory (now supported by
the IFLA SIG on Library Publishing) and the Library Publishing Forum
(annual conference – not to be missed!)
4. Library Publishing Curriculum
• Developed by the Library Publishing Coalition in partnership with Educopia
• Released in 2018 as a set of teaching resources broken into four modules:
Content
Impact
Sustainability
Policies
• Became an official LPC resource in 2019
• Open and free for anyone to use or adapt under a Creative Commons Attribution
(CC BY) license
6. Module 2 – Impact
• Trends that are affecting scholarly publishing
• Strategic planning
• Assessment measures and strategies
• Strategies for enhancing discoverability and accessibility
• Outreach, engagement and collaboration
• Marketing, promotion and publicity
• Social media
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/libpubcurriculum/
7. Module 3 – Sustainability
• Business basics
• Financial basics
• Staffing and Governance
• Preservation
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/libpubcurriculum/
12. Jisc – New University Press Toolkit
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/new-university-press-toolkit#
https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/8384/
13. Library Publishing Education
MSc / MLIS
Library School Level
Library Association/
National Level
LPC / IFLA SIG
International Level
Editor's Notes
Are you going to be the institutional service provider or an editorially driven publisher of scholarly content, or both? systems, workflows, guidelines, and documentation are crucial for a program’s success. Monographs/books/series. Open textbooks/OERs. What kinds of files can you accept, publish, and preserve?
Strategic planning methods and tools to drive impact – crafting goals. assessment methods, tools, and metrics that help us measure the impact of individual publications and publishing programs. best practices in metadata management, common metadata standards and unique identifiers, journal indexing, and search engine optimization. the connection between a publisher’s social media activities and their strategic goals.
The need to understand key business and financial concepts in order to speak a common language with financial decision-makers and for robust reporting. types of staffing including external, outsourcing, contract workers, and employees. We need to ensure that our work is fully preserved and preservation is complex in the digital environment.
guidance on developing robust, legally sound author agreements and Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs). ways that library publishers can design and implement preservation policies to help them to ensure the longevity of the publications they issue in digital formats.
Self paced online course - possible to pay $99 for a completion certificate