Serialist as publisher - a great duet? Serialists’ lives at academic libraries revolve around publishing, publication patterns and terminology, and technology. Join us for a session with two serialists who use skills honed in their respective serials departments to see how those skills adapt to the world of e-publishing. In this session, the presenters will discuss their roles in e-publishing and their respective university presses and library publishing programs. How have their libraries reorganized to provide resources for supporting these new roles? The daily work of an e-publishing librarian will be reviewed, including an overview of working with Digital Commons and OJS (Open Journal Systems), two e-press platforms. The presenters will also discuss funding and sustainability of the programs and working with open access and subscription titles. Presenters: Char Simser, Kansas State University Libraries and Wendy Robertson, University of Iowa Libraries

1. Wendy Robertson, University of Iowa
Char Simser, Kansas State University

2. Our roots
o our organizations
o our e-presses - origins
Day-in-the-Life (the routine - troubleshooting)
o Open Journal Systems (OJS)
o Digital Commons
Future funding & sustainability
Serialist background & e-publishing
o a good match?
Not-quite-live demo

3. Iowa Kansas State

4. • choose a platform: Digital Commons, Open
Journal Systems (OJS), other?
additional options:
http://www.arl.org/sparc/publisher/journal_management.shtml
• considerations
o open access or subscription-based?
o staffing
o campus servers or commercial hosting
o software needs
o technical & production support
o other costs
o will you charge for your services?

5. Iowa
• Host journals, not the publisher
• No formal proposal process
• General information:
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/drp/ejournal.html
K-State
• under development- currently informal & addressed on
NPP's 'About page':
http://newprairiepress.org/journals/index/about

6. • the 'routine' stuff
o article DOIs
o works-cited DOIs
o DOAJ - for article metadata
• everything else...
o new journal set up, training & consultation
o Documentation
TROUBLE SHOOTING

7. Just a quick look at our current homepage
http://www.newprairiepress.org

11. depositer & registrant
requires updating

16. Journal set-up
Subscription controls
Retrospecitve content
Staying current with changes

20. KBART
http://www.uksg.org/kbart
PIE-J
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/piej/
Best Practice for Online Journal Editors
http://www.celj.org/files/downloads/CELJEjournalEditor
sGuidelines.pdf

24. • Scan
• Create PDFs
o OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
o Improve for accessibility & mobile access
• Article metadata
• ~4000 back articles
• DOIs for works cited yet to be done

29. • Shareable, consistent, interoperable
• Review new content
• Batch revise back content as needed
• Review OAI mapping
• Metadata in html page important for SEO

30. http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html

31. • For site administrator
• For editors
• For authors
• For institutional subscribers (no)
• Via Google Analytics
Should be clear what is counted – page access,
PDF download etc.

33. Decisions at Iowa & K-State
• central to Libraries' mission
• committed to open access
• no fees charged to journal editors or
authors
• software & staffing funded through library
budget

34. Knowledge of journals and the diverse skills of
a serialist are a great asset to a library
publisher.

35. The next few slides walk through the author
submission process and some of the editorial
workflow of New Prairie Press

48. ThThank You!
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