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Matt Phillpott
(School of Advanced Study)
matt.Phillpott@sas.ac.uk
• What is digital publishing?
Areas I’ll cover:
• Research Data
• Articles
• Monographs and books
• Presentations
• Websites and Social Media

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Publishing, essentially, is the act of putting together written, visual or audio
materials and releasing them as a cohesive whole to the world at large.
Originally, publishing was done in the form of books, whether as papyrus scrolls
or bound in covers. Publishing continued in this form until paper was taken out
of the equation and replaced by digital files placed online.
- eHow Article: The Definition of Digital Publishing (Shawn M. Tomlinson
(http://www.ehow.com/about_5101062_definition-digital-publishing.html)
Electronic publishing (also referred to as e-
publishing or digital publishing) includes the digital
publication of e-books, digital magazines, and the
development of digital libraries and catalogues.
- Wikipedia definition

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Research
Article(s) Monograph/Book Presentation(s)
The Traditional Model

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Research
Dataset
E-repository
Article(s)
Open Access
version
Born Digital
Monograph/Book
E-book
Open Access
Monographs
Presentation(s)
Podcast
Video (YouTube)
Slide Show
Internet
Website
Blog
Social Media
The Digital Model

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Interactive: other media can be added to digital content such as images, videos, audio etc.
Accessible: Online content can be accessed from anywhere, anytime and by using different available
electronic devices.
Sharable: Digital content can be shared easily
Global Reach: Digital publishing makes it possible to give a global reach to the content in less time and
get the attention of the maximum targeted audience.
Benefits of digital publication

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'Open access' refers to unrestricted, online access to the published findings of
research. In our role as a national funding body for research, we are committed
to supporting successful approaches to open-access publishing and increasing
public access to research findings.
- HEFCE (2014)
Free and open access to publicly-funded research offers significant social and
economic benefits. The Government, in line with its overarching commitment
to transparency and open data, is committed to ensuring that such research
should be freely accessible.
- RCUK (2014)

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Statement on Open Access
The School of Advanced Study unites 10 institutes at the University of London to form the
UK’s national centre for the support of researchers and the promotion of research in the
humanities broadly defined. The School’s mission is to promote and facilitate research for
the benefit of the national and international research communities and for society at large.
The School is supportive of the move towards Open Access and would want to see the
broadest possible Open Access policy across the UK, to allow the best research to be made
widely available, to encourage mobility researchers, and to promote scholarly publishing in
the UK and abroad.
The School is committed to academic freedom of choice, and is equally committed to the
dissemination of research outputs for maximum impact. The School’s academic members
are free to publish in the form of their choice, whether in a journal, monograph or scholarly
edition, and the School has every confidence in its researchers’ ability to make sensible
decisions when considering the publication of their outputs.
The School recognises that major research funders in the UK encourage if not increasingly
demand Open Access, as do most international funding bodies, and therefore encourages
its researchers, wherever possible, to take account of Open Access when deciding where to
publish. In its willingness to comply with these mandates, the School is, now and for the
foreseeable future, in favour of Open Access by means of the Green Route.
The School will make available special allocations from its funders in those cases where
Article Processing Charges (or APCs) need to be paid. The School will also show its support
for Open Access by establishing an institutional fund, which will aim to help cover the cost of
APCs.
The School favours a sustainable approach to Open Access that supports researchers by
making the best use of its own resources. The School has three Open Access journals, and
plans to expand its range, notwithstanding the Reviews in History, which has been
publishing in OA since 1996. The School’s own e-repository SAS-Space, launched in 2006,
already provides a permanent and secure online archive of research materials for the
humanities and social sciences. The School intends to continue enhancing SAS-Space, both
to ensure institutional compliance with funders’ Open Access requirements and to provide a
means by which authors, including those without an institutional affiliation, may officially and
openly deposit all types of research outputs, subject to the conditions of any research
contracts with third parties and in keeping with discipline-specific conventions, thus providing
a national and international showcase for their research to the community at large.
“The School is committed to academic freedom of choice,
and is equally committed to the dissemination of research
outputs for maximum impact.
The School’s academic members are free to publish in the
form of their choice, whether in a journal, monograph or
scholarly edition, and the School has every confidence in
its researchers’ ability to make sensible decisions when
considering the publication of their outputs.”
- SAS Statement on Open Access, 2014

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•Deposit in an institutional repository
• Many institutions have institutional digital repositories, and many of these are being used for holding
research data and sharing this
•Deposit in a specialist data centre or archive
• The UK Data Archive has an established reputation for managing history datasets
•Submitting to a journal to support a publication
• Many journal publishers are now providing the scope to share data associated with publications
•Dissemination via a project or institutional website
• A special section or page for ‘data’ with documentation
•Informal peer-to-peer exchange
• An option commonly used by many areas of research

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E-repositories
What is SAS-Space?
• The institutional repository for
SAS and SHL
• a flexible dissemination
and preservation service for
research outputs
• For SAS/SHL academic staff and fellows,
cognate scholarly organisations, and
graduate students
A permanent online archive for
humanities research outputs,
including articles and data
http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/

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What types of data
does SAS-Space hold?
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• Pre-publication/born-digital journal articles
• Event presentations (papers presented)
• Reports and official documentation (staff papers)
• Research Datasets
• Audio/Video files related to research projects
• Digitised materials (books, images)
• Dissertations and Theses

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Journals and Articles
Where do journal articles go on the web?
• Journal website
• E-repositories (usually pre-print version or after an embargo period)
• Open access e-journal site

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SAS Open Journals
A system for editing, producing
and hosting Open Access journals
Who is it for?
(i) Academic staff (SAS & beyond)
(ii) Postgraduates (SAS & beyond)
(iii) Societies, other ‘academic groups
www.sas.ac.uk
http://journals.sas.ac.uk/

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Current Journals
• IALS Student Law Review
• Journal of Human Rights in the Commonwealth
• Amicus Curiae
• Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review
• History of Women in the Americas
www.sas.ac.uk

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Books and Monographs • E-books allow additional searching/links added [enhancements]
Progress on Open Access Monographs
HEFCE Monographs and Open Access report (2015)
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rereports/year/2015/monographs/

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Presentations
Slideshare
• Upload copies of slide shows
that you have created
• Embed slideshows alongside
podcasts of talk/text/abstract
• Embed into websites and blogs
• Promote on Twitter and
Facebook
http://www.slideshare.net/

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Websites and Social Media

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Wordpress
• Most popular blogging service in the world
• Plenty of themes to choose from
• Free although you might wish to pay for hosting
and upgrade to wordpress.org for more options
Blogger
• Google system so connects well with other Google services
• Free but limited themes to choose from
Others: Typepad (£££)

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What kind of Blog?
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Creating an online profile
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Images
Videos
Audio
Text (articles/books)
• Blog Posts
• CV
• Resources pages
Twitter
Facebook
Linked In
IMPACT Check stats on Dashboard (hootsuite/Buffer etc) Network
Slide Show

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Thank you for listening!
Matt Phillpott
Matt.phillpott@sas.ac.uk
@mphillpott