Alex and Conor introduce SAH Journal (sahjournal.com) as an open access academic journal project involving the collaborative efforts of emerging and established scholars as well as academic librarians. Conor explains the benefits of collaborating with research librarians through publishing. Alex asserts that librarians (libraries) are perfectly positioned to enter into direct competition with established commercial journal publishers. He explains the mechanics of electronic publishing from conceptional planning to implementation via, in this instance, Open Journal Systems (OJS).

1. Librarian as Publisher
Studies in Arts and Humanities
sahjournal.com

2. Initial Aims
• SAH Journal aims to be all-encompassing in terms of
subject, contribution and readership across the field
of Arts and Humanities.
• SAH Journal aims to facilitate a challenging but
accessible platform for a diverse range and lively mix
of critical analysis and informed opinion.
• SAH Journal aims to become an authoritative
teaching and learning resource.

3. Initial Aims
• While original academic content will be core, the
journal aims to reach out to a wider audience in a
broader manner than many existing journals.
• Divisions between academic disciplines within the
arts and humanities are increasingly blurred, SAH
Journal aims to create a space which can include a
wide range of disciplines aimed at AND beyond
those disciplines.

4. griffith.edu.au

5. Noises Off…
• Emerges from conversation between librarians and
teachers
– Where to publish, how to publish, what to publish?
• Emerges from conversation between teachers and
students
– Where to publish, how to publish, what to publish?
• Becomes a conversation between librarians, teachers
and students
– Where to publish, how to publish, what to publish?
• All informed by the ongoing question: WHY PUBLISH?

6. Structural Issues
• Publisher: The Editorial Team
• Editor-in-Chief / Managing Editor
• Editorial Board (ROI, UK)
– NUI Galway, University of Ulster, Bournemouth University ,
Dublin Business School, National College of Ireland, Maynooth
University
• Meets at key points during the publishing cycle
– pre-submission, completed review, copy-editing, issue launch
• Proposal to establish an Advisory Board to include a
larger number of members allowing for a smaller,
streamlined Editorial Board

7. Content of Issue No. 1
• History: UG article (5,800 words), French Resistance in
WWII
• Literature: Faculty-level article, (4,600 words), King Lear
• Psychology: UG article (4,700 words), Anxiety and
Depression

8. Content of Issue No. 1
• Literature: UG article (5,100 words), Elizabeth Bowen
and Anglo-Irish Identity
• Film: UG article (4,800 words), Female Roles in the Films
of Fellini
• Film: PG article (7,000 words), Sustainability and Film
Production

9. Future Plans
• To establish a sustainable structure allowing for two
issues per calendar year (June / December)
• To investigate a crowdsourced solution for ongoing
funding | www.fundit.ie
• To consider variations in the shape and content of future
issues
• Subject specific issues, special interest issues,
commemorative issues…

10. Library as Publisher
1. Opportunity
2. Journal
Subscription
Costs
3. Faculty
Attitudes
6. OA Journals
in Ireland
5. Every
Library’s
Challenge
4. Every
Scholar’s
Challenge
The Library

11. Our Opportunity!
Ever-increasing journal subscription prices continue
to stress the academic community in both
economic and intellectual terms. Deploying newly
available tools and approaches to article
production in a collaborative manner offer
dramatic reductions in cost. This level of cost saving
practically mandates a re-thinking of the entire
business model for scholarly publishing.
Julian H. Fisher, 2008 (co-founder of Scholarly Exchange)

12. Assertions
• Librarians are aware of both the economics and
technology of publishing
• Open Access (OA) is technologically viable
• OA is good for scholars and the public good
(Increased visibility and citations)
“Full text downloads were 89% higher, PDF downloads 42% higher,
and unique visitors 23% higher for open access articles than for
subscription access articles. Abstract downloads were 24% lower
for open access articles.“
Davis, PM et al. (2008). Open access publishing, article
downloads, and citations: randomised controlled trial
(11 journals / 1,600+ articles)

13. National Principles for Open Access
Policy Statement (Oct. 2012)
• Increase visibility of, and access to, publically funded
research outputs
• Support free flow of information
• Researchers are free to publish wherever they feel is
most appropriate

14. National Principles for Open Access
Policy Statement (Oct. 2012)
• ‘Green’ Open Access is mandated (“should be
deposited”)
• ‘Gold’ Open Access is complementary
(encouraged)

15. Journal Subscription Costs
• Steady increase in subscription prices for scholarly
journals (value for money?)
• 2015 Cost Projections by Broad Subject (U.S. and non-
U.S.)
– Arts and Humanities Index = + 5.3%
– Social Sciences Citation Index = + 7.0%
– Science Citation Index = + 5.9%
LJ Periodicals Price Survey, 2014

16. Journal Subscription Costs
What could the UK academic community do with £14.5
million? That is the same as the yearly tuition fees for
over 1600 undergraduates paying £9,000 fees. And
that is what just 19 Universities in the UK are spending
in total during a single year on journal subscriptions to
a single publisher.
THE COST OF ACADEMIC PUBLISHING
(Open Access Working Group, April 24, 2014)

17. Journal Subscription Costs
• Practice of publishers of mandatory journal
subscription bundling
• Steady decrease of publishing costs (supposition)
• Squeezed library space and budgets
• Does the publishing process need to cost what it
does?

18. Journal Subscription Costs
https://twitter.com/xor/status/552456370629672960

19. Faculty Attitude towards Librarians
• Librarians assist scholar’s research needs
• Librarians are information service providers
• Librarians are an instrumental means-to-an-end
• Some scholars see library open access publishing as
a threat to academic freedom

20. Every Scholar’s Challenge…
• Negative Liberty = academic freedom from external
constraint (“do what it takes”; “rational control”)
versus…
• Positive Liberty = academic freedom to pursue a
self-determined course of actions (“self-mastered
autonomy”)
Isaiah Berlin, 1958 Two Concepts of Liberty

21. Every Library’s Challenge…
• Requirement to add value to all publisher functions
– Strong quality control processes (led by academic review)
– Manage all publication and post-publication processes
• Example:
- Home to more than 30 e-journals…
- Journal web hosting
- Rights management
- Distribution and accessibility
- Sustainable business models
- Engage with emerging models of scholarly communication
- Digital preservation
- Etc… Michigan Journals, 2015

22. Ireland OA Journal Landscape
• Increases the visibility and ease of use of open access
scientific and scholarly journals
• Comprehensive one-stop shop for OA journal users
• World = 10,586 Journals / 134 countries / 1.9 Mio.+
Articles (as of May 2015)
• Ireland = Fourteen Journals (as of May 2015)

23. OA Journal Example in Ireland
• Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies
(Digital Commons / EdiKit )

24. SAH Journal
1. OJS
3. Infrastructure
Services
2. Transparency
& Best Practice
6. Indexing
7. Impact
8.
Preservation
9.
Going
forward…
5. Journal Statistics
4. Journal
Management

25. OJS
• Public Knowledge Project founded in 1998 by John
Willinsky / Simon Fraser University, Canada
• 2001 Open Journals Systems released as open source
software
• OJS is installed and controlled locally
• Online submission and management of all content
• Fully assists the refereed publishing process

26. OJS
https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ojs-usage/ojs-map/
Journals using Open Journals Systems

27. Transparency and Best Practice in
Scholarly Publishing
Commitment to a thorough and high-quality academic
review process!
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/f1/73/15/f173159490fd307eb357072336d06cd2.jpg

28. Transparency and Best Practice in
Scholarly Publishing

29. Transparency and Best Practice in
Scholarly Publishing
Who edits the journal?
What are people’s credentials?

30. Transparency and Best Practice in
Scholarly Publishing
Variable Approach
Author fees N/A
Copyright Attribution-NonCommercial-
NoDerivatives 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Identification of and dealing with
allegations of research
misconduct/ conflict of interest
COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION
ETHICS (COPE)
Ownership and management The Editorial Team
Access Full and immediate open access

31. Transparency and Best Practice in
Scholarly Publishing
Variable Approach
Revenue sources Clearly stated when applicable
Advertising N/A
Publishing schedule Two issues per year
Solicitation of manuscripts Appropriate; well targeted;
unobtrusive
Open Access Scholarly Publishers
Association (OASPA)
Membership application in
process

32. Transparency and Best Practice in
Scholarly Publishing
Explicit and full commitment to the philosophy of
Open Access
https://http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CHG2GRbeET8/TH_dYibPyZI/AAAAAAAAQSE/Ms26Cs1dbBg/s1600/dilbert

33. Infrastructure Services
• Web hosting:
– OS platform: Linux
– PHP version: 5.5.24
– Database driver: MySQL 5.1.73
• ISSN:
– NLI (minimum 5 articles for serial publication)
– Online (2009-7298) and Print (2009-728X)
• CrossRef:
– Durable links to reliably identify content
– DOI prefix 10.18193
• OJS supports OAI-PMH (service provider requests based on
HTTP; metadata encoded in XML)

34. Journal Management / Roles

35. Journal Management

36. Journal Statistics
• Google Analytics
• OJS inbuilt Stats & Report Plugins…
– Counter Stats
(Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources)
– View Report (readership for each article)
– Timed Views Report (readership for each article filtered by a user-
defined timespan)
– Articles Report (list of articles and their info)
– Review Report (list of review assignments for a journal)
– …

37. Indexing… a sample
Extensive stress testing | 50+
questions application form
self-deposit service to all publishers
in Ireland; content is discoverable
alongside TARA
Publisher's copyright & archiving
policies (JISC funded)
source of bibliographic and publisher
information on more than 300,000
periodicals of all types academic and
scholarly journals…
OIAster is a union catalogue of millions
of records representing open access
resources using OAI-PMH

38. Journal Impact
via SUSHI-Lite (Standardised Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative)
– Usage: clicks, downloads, views, library holdings, video plays
– Captures: bookmarks, code forks, favourites, readers, watchers
– Mentions: blog posts, comments, reviews, Wikipedia links
– Social media: +1s, likes, shares, Tweets
– Citations: PubMed Central, Scopus, USPatentOffice

39. Preservation…
• LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)
– Open Source digital preservation system
– Via dedicated LOCKSS box (“digital stacks”)
– Decentralised and distributed fort authentic and
perpetual preservation/access
• PKP Private LOCKSS Network
– Pilot phase until August 2015 (requires OJS 2.4.6 or
higher)
– Dark archive activated by trigger events
• Explicit notification by Journal Manager
• Cessation of deposits into PKP-PLN
http://www.lockss.org/

40. Going Forward… Getting Organised

41. Competencies… a sample
Document preparation system
for high-quality typesetting
XML flavour to mark up
texts for online research,
teaching, and preservation
https://geekysnippets.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/a-copyeditors-job-an-overview/http://www.tei-c.org/system/modules/org.tei.www/_common/images/banner.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/LaTeX_logo.svg

42. Competencies… a sample
Publishing Rights Management
http://www.accelbi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Program-Project-Management.jpg
Digitisation &
Digital Preservation
http://tech.firstpost.com/wp-
content/uploads/gallery/2012/aug/cable_final_coveer_301800037531_640x360.jpg
Communication & Coordination…
http://www.startupist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/communication.jpg

44. Alexander Kouker
Research Librarian| DBS Library
Conor Murphy
Lecturer | DBS School of Arts

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