Setting up a library published business journal - Marie o'Neill CCT College

1. Setting up an Open Access, Peer
Reviewed, Library Published Journal in
Business:
Ethos, Content, and Quality
Marie O’ Neill,
Head of Enhancement,
CCT College Dublin

2. • Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Studies, University College Dublin & MA in
Library and Information Management, Northumbria University
• Librarian of 30 years standing. I have worked in the libraries of King’s Inns, Technological
University Dublin, University College Dublin, South Eastern Health Board, Welsh Office, the
Oireachtas, Dublin Business School (Head Librarian). Now Head of Enhancement at CCT
College Dublin.
• Council Member Library Association of Ireland currently. Member - Library Association
of Ireland’s Library Publishing Group. Committee member - IFLA’s Library Publishing Group.
• Originator and Co-Founder of the MSc in Information and Library Management at
Dublin Business School
• Staff Profile: https://works.bepress.com/marie-oneill2/ Email: moneill@cct.ie
My Career to Date

3. DBS Business Review (dbsbusinessreview.ie)
Founded in 2017 by Marie O’ Neill and Jane Buggle. Annual journal.
Open access. Published using OJS software (open source). Authors retain
their own copyright. No APC charges.
Inspired by Institution wide audit of scholarly activity which revealed a
lower research output in the DBS Business School compared to the Arts
School.
Journal creation linked to both the College’s strategic plan and the Library’s
Strategic Plan – Enhancing the Intellectual Footprint of Dublin Business
School
Branding of DBS Business Review closely linked to the institution. Clear
message: Library publishing activities are now a key contributor to the
growth and showcasing of institutional research activity at DBS.

4. DBS Business Review:
Publishing Team
Marie O’ Neill and Jane Buggle,
Journal Co-founders and Managing
Editors (2017 and 2018 issues). Dave
Hughes, OJS Platform Manager.
In 2019, Marie moved to CCT College
and Robert Alfis took over as Joint
Editor with Jane, 2019 issue etc.
Joan Colvin, Senior Editor until her
retirement in 2021
Editor in Chief, Alan Morgan (2017
and 2018 issues). Alan subsequently
took up a new post in UCD and Garry
Prentice took over as Editor in Chief
in 2019.
Marie O’ Neill Jane Buggle Alan Morgan
Robert Alfis Joan Colvin Dr Garry Prentice

5. Ethos
DBS Business Review accepts:
Student submissions
Faculty submissions
Co-authored submissions between faculty and students
Submissions from business practitioners also accepted
The journal accepts research articles, case studies, interviews,
book reviews etc.
Submissions accepted from
external institutions as well as
DBS

6. Focus and Scope
https://dbsbusinessreview.ie/index.php/journal/about/editorialPolicies#focusAndScope

7. Quality Mechanisms
Robust Peer review process (double-blind). Reviewers = national academic experts
Focus on publication ethics. See COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) at:
https://publicationethics.org/. Ethical approval from respective institutions. Copyright
compliance.
Journal editorial and advisory boards
DBS Library listed in the Library Publishing Coalition’s Library Publishing Directory
Journal production compliant with the criteria for indexing in the Directory of Open
Access Journals
No APC charges. Use of DOIs etc. ISSN etc. Archiving with the National Library of
Ireland

8. Advisory Board – DBS Business Review
https://dbsbusinessreview.ie/index.php/journal/about/displayMembership/10
Details re Editorial
Board. See:
https://dbsbusinessrevi
ew.ie/index.php/journa
l/about/displayMember
ship/10

9. Criteria for Inclusion in the
DOAJ (https://doaj.org/apply/guide/ )
Jane Buggle
managed DOAJ
application.
Excellent Library
Publishing
Coalition guide to
DOAJ indexing at:
https://docs.googl
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to the DOAJ

10. Criteria for Inclusion in the DOAJ
To index a
journal with the
National Library
of Ireland, the
journal must
publish 5
research articles
per year

11. Criteria for Inclusion in the
DOAJ Continued

12. Discoverability of DBS Business Review Important:
DOAJ. DBS Business Review is also indexed on
EBSCO and ProQuest databases.

13. DBS Business Review: Entry on DOAJ

14. DBS Business Review, 2018 Issue

15. DBS Business Review, 2018 Issue Continued

16. DBS Business Review, 2018 Issue Continued

17. Library Publishing Communities of Practice
Library Association of Ireland’s
Library Publishing Group, Chaired by Jane Buggle
https://www.libraryassociation.ie/library-
publishing-group/
IFLA Lib Pub: https://www.ifla.org/library-
publishing, Ann Okerson, Convenor.
(Jane and I were involved in mid-term meetings
held at DBS and Oslo. See:
https://www.ifla.org/publications/92037)
Library Publishing Coalition:
https://librarypublishing.org/

18. Library Publishing Tips
 Keep quality considerations/publishing ethics to the fore.
 Open access with no APC charges
 Focus on sustainability and preservation. Library Publishing activities linked to institutional strategic
plan/Library’s strategic plan.
 Ensure that the journal is discoverable
 Employ a range of approaches to source content (call for papers, solicit academics and students directly,
calls circulated via Linkedin particularly effective etc.)
 Be innovative about journal promotion. Event launches are effective re promoting the journal.
 Measure impact. DBS Business Review increased quality and quantity of scholarly activity in the DBS
Business School. Staff and students also rated the experience as extremely positive.
 Engage in national and international communities of practice pertaining to library publishing.
 Educating library students and practitioners important. Educopia and Library Publishing Coalition’s Library
Publishing Curriculum taught as part of the Open Science Module on the MSc in Information and Library
Management at DBS.

19. Launch of DBS Business Review, 2018

20. Library Publishing at CCT College
 CCT has purchased Digital Commons including journal
publishing module. Our IR is available at arc.cct.ie
 CCT College is listed in the Library Publishing Coalition’s
Annual Directory and IFLA’s Global Library Publishing Map
 Plans for a library published journal approved by the
Executive Leadership Team
 Justin Smyth, Librarian at CCT and Marie O’ Neill recently
undertook training on Digital Common’s Journal Publishing
module with Stacey Vaugh (IT Support and Consulting,
Bepress)
 Justin Smyth, member of the LAI’s Open Scholarship Group
and Marie O’ Neill of the LAI’s Library Publishing Group
Justin Smyth, Librarian
CCT College Dublin

21. Library Publishing at CCT (Entry in the Library
Publishing Coalition’s Annual Directory 2021)
https://librarypublishing.org/directory/cct-college-
dublin-2021/

22. https://lib-pub.org/
IFLA’s Global Library Publishing Map

23. https://www.clir.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/pub166.pdf
“New Ways of Connecting with a Very Old Mission”

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25. Our Dedication.
Your Journey.