From: Doug Way <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:39:52 +0000

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ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group Meeting

Time: Saturday, January 31, 2015, 1:00-2:30
Location: McCormick Place West, W176a
http://alamw15.ala.org/node/25852

Please join us for three presentations on scholarly communications
services.

Supporting Open Access Publishing via Open Journal Systems – One Library’s
experience:  Beth Bernhardt, UNC-Greensboro

Academic libraries have traditionally purchased journals that hold content
created by their researchers. With the growing push for open access,
libraries now have opportunities to assist their faculty members in
creating and providing scholarly content directly to users. One such
endeavor is Open Journal Systems (OJS), a software system developed by the
Public Knowledge Project (PKP), and created specifically to facilitate
open access scholarly publishing.

In 2010, The UNC Greensboro University Libraries started providing support
for faculty who wished to publish open access journals through OJS. The
library currently hosts seven journals, with two more in development. This
presentation will discuss our experience in implementing OJS, training
faculty to use it, and issues and discoveries made along the way.

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Library Funding of Open Access Publication Fees: Effects on Faculty
Behavior and Attitude:  Jonathan Nabe and Andrea Imre, Southern Illinois
University Carbondale

As part of the effort to provide an alternative to unsustainably priced
subscription-based journals, some academic libraries have established
funds to cover article processing charges in open access journals for
faculty.  One of the aims of such funds is to increase awareness of and
participation in open access publishing, beyond the individual articles
funded.  There has been little or no reported analysis on the
effectiveness of such funds in changing faculty publishing patterns.  Our
presentation will provide an assessment of the effects of a library open
access fund on funded authors’ attitudes and subsequent publishing
behavior.  We will provide background information on the  SIU COPE (SIU
Carbondale Open-Access Publishing Equity) Fund, established in 2011, and
provide results from publication history and survey analysis.

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A For-Fee Scholarly Publishing Service Based in the Library:
Kevin S. Hawkins, University of North Texas

The University of North Texas is launching a new library-based service
to publish works of scholarship, both new and reissued, from the UNT
community. All publications, published under the Eagle Editions imprint,
are freely available to read online, and some are also be available in
print, e-books, or both.  The cost to publish varies by the services
chosen by the publishing partner; prices are based on fees charged by
freelancers and vendors that carry out editing and design tasks.
Libraries staff members advise on options for distribution in print and
e-book formats, partnering with the UNT Press on some projects but
generally leaving authors to make arrangements with distributors.  This
presentation will give an overview of this new service and its fee
structure.

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A brief business meeting will follow the presentations.

Doug Way
Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group
Associate University Librarian for Collections and Research Services
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Anneliese Taylor
Vice-Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group
Assistant Director, Scholarly Communications & Collections
University of California-San Francisco
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