This is a presentation given by Dr Belinda Tiffen and Scott Abbott of the University of Technology Sydney (Library). Representing UTS ePRESS, the open access scholarly publishing arm of the University, Belinda and Scott presented at the Library Publishing Forum held in Portland, Oregon (USA) in March, 2015. The presentation was on the reinvention of the Press after the commissioning of a report by the Library-based Publisher into how to increase the reach and impact of the Press's content.

1. Keep Calm and Unlock Research
Reinventing UTS ePRESS
Belinda Tiffen
Director Library Resources
Scott Abbott
UTS ePRESS Officer

2. Unlocking Research
since
2004

3. platinum OA academic journals
11

4. ebooks
23

5. 2014
UTS ePRESS
review

6. Source: Roarmap
The number of OA mandates is increasing

7. academic community
There is a growing awareness of OA in the

8. How do we distinguish
UTS ePRESS
from
Predatory
publishers?

9. Research impact measures
still favour
traditional
and
bibliometric measures
modes of publication

10. 2014

11. 1. Branding
to increase visibility
and ‘saleability’

14. 2.Uniform CC-BY licences for libre OA

15. 3. HTML and PDF
to remove technical
barriers to reuse
formats

16. 4. DOI
to maximise impact
through increased
findability

17. Plagarism
11%
Duplicate Publication
16%
Fraud/Suspected Fraud
49%
Error
24%
5. iThenticate
to increase quality
and reduce editor
workload
Fang, FC, Grant Steen, R., Casadevall, A (2012) Misconduct Accounts for the majority of Retracted Scientific Publication. PNAS 109(42). doi:
10.1073/journal.pnas.1212247109
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/42/17028.full

18. Figure 3. Justifications for retraction stated in the notices consulted, which accounted for 4,232 retracted articles.
Grieneisen ML, Zhang M (2012) A Comprehensive Survey of Retracted Articles from the Scholarly Literature. PLoS ONE 7(10): e44118. doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0044118
http://127.0.0.1:8081/plosone/article?id=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0044118

19. Measuring Success

20. Measuring Success
qualitative measures

21. a case study
PORTALJournal of Multidisciplinary Studies

22. International Editorial Advisory Board
PORTALJournal of Multidisciplinary Studies

23. (Some) index locations
PORTALJournal of Multidisciplinary Studies

24. Measuring Success
quantitative measures

25. PORTALJournal of Multidisciplinary Studies
Traditional Citation Metrics and H-Index
Source: Google Scholar, February 2015

26. PORTALJournal of Multidisciplinary Studies
Article Downloads
Source: OJS COUNTER Statistics, February 2015

27. PORTALJournal of Multidisciplinary Studies
Article Downloads
Source: Google Analytics, Article Downloads, March 2014 - February 2015

28. PORTALJournal of Multidisciplinary Studies
International Reach
Source: Google Analytics, Visits by Country, Since January 2009

29. PORTALJournal of Multidisciplinary Studies
73.2% of Visitors are Non-Australian
Source: Google Analytics, Sessions by Country, Since January 2009

30. PORTALJournal of Multidisciplinary Studies
Global Distribution of Readers
Source: Google Analytics, Sessions by Country, Since January 2009

31. PORTALJournal of Multidisciplinary Studies
Global Authorship
ORIGIN OF AUTHOR NUMBER PERCENTAGE
Australian 190 27%
International 211 31%
Unknown 289 42%
TOTAL 690 100%

32. PORTALJournal of Multidisciplinary Studies
Alternative Metrics
Source: PLOS/OJS
52
discussions
17
discussions

33. PORTALJournal of Multidisciplinary Studies
Alternative Metrics
Source: Mendeley
3
article saves

34. Expanding our monograph publishing

36. Media Object explores….”the role of
experimentation with the languages of
media in the development of new modes
of communication and new ideas.
Necessarily then MediaObject is interested
in experiments in form both in book
publishing and in an expanded idea of the
possibilities of both the academic
monograph and the artist book.”

37. How can we
develop
sustainable
business
models for
monograph
publishing?

38. Exploring creative
models of
book design
marketing
&

42. New business
models exploring
the nature
of the book

43. Freemium models
retain open access
but
provide value-added services
to diversify business models

44. Freemium models
retain open access
but
provide value-added services
to diversify business models

45. Cecilia Heffer, 2010, Lace Narratives, Solo Exhibition, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney

46. Cecilia Heffer, 2010, Lace Narratives, Solo Exhibition, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney

47. Cecilia Heffer, 2010, Lace Narratives, Solo Exhibition, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney

48. Cecilia Heffer & Bert Bongers, 2014, Pattern Stations, Embracing Innovation Vol 4:
Craft ACT, Craft + Design Centre, Canberra

49. Cecilia Heffer & Bert Bongers, 2014, Pattern Stations, Embracing Innovation Vol 4:
Craft ACT, Craft + Design Centre, Canberra

50. Cecilia Heffer & Bert Bongers, 2014, Pattern Stations, Embracing Innovation Vol 4:
Craft ACT, Craft + Design Centre, Canberra

51. Cecilia Heffer & Bert Bongers, 2014, Pattern Stations, Embracing Innovation Vol 4:
Craft ACT, Craft + Design Centre, Canberra

52. Cecilia Heffer, 2010, Lace Narratives, Solo Exhibition, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney

53. Cecilia Heffer, 2013, India Embroidery Tour

54. Cecilia Heffer, 2013, India Embroidery Tour

55. Cecilia Heffer, 2013, India Embroidery Tour

56. Cecilia Heffer, 2013, India Embroidery Tour

57. Cecilia Heffer, 2011-2013, Love Lace, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

58. Cecilia Heffer, 2011-2013 Love Lace, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

59. Cecilia Heffer, 2011-2013, Love Lace, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

60. Cecilia Heffer, 2011-2013, Love Lace, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

61. secure basic open access
(no fee for users, no fee for publishing)
• Research output in shared
interoperable open access digital
repositories
– institutional
– national
– regional
– international
– Thematic
– Journal repositories (70% journals do not
charge APC´s)
payed&value*
added&
services&by&
repositories,&
overlay&
journals,&&
megajournals,&
epijournals,&
publishers,&
data&portals,&
peer*review&
services,&
impact&
services,&etc.&
Global Open Access
a collaborative freemium model
Source: Dominque Babini, CLACSO, 2014

62. “Open Access is an opportunity not a threat”
Paul Ayris, UCL Press, COASP at UNESCO 2014

65. All images from pixabay.com
used under CC0 licence
Except for:
Open For Business Sign: From
opensource.com used under CC-BY-
SA licence
Stopwatch: From Flickr user William
Warby used under CC-BY licence
Old TV: From Flickr user Kevin Smith,
used under CC-BY-SA licence
Libre Sign: From Flickr user Gisela
Giardino used under CC-BY-SA
licence
Images of Cecilia Heffer’s Work:
ceciliaheffer.com
UTS ePRESS Banner: By Mal Booth,
used under CC-BY-NC-SA licence
Image Credits

66. Thank You
epress.lib.uts.edu.au
utsepress@lib.uts.edu.au