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Exploring New Options in Digital Publishing
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Recent developments in technology are creating new, low-cost publishing opportunities for schools, small presses and archives. The practice of print-on-demand, which allows for single copies of books to be published, eliminates many of the costs of traditional publishing, making it possible to produce high quality publications in very small quantities.
Online journal systems, many of which are open source, bring the publication of peer-reviewed journals within easy reach of faculty and students. Some journal systems are integrating with online repositories to deliver text and media rich publications that take full advantage of being online.
Attendees will see examples of projects using these new technologies and should expect to leave with at least one idea of a project they can consider at their institution.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Marilyn Billings of University of Massachusetts Amherst and Dan Schnaidt of Wesleyan University
Date/Time:
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
UMASS Amherst
Campus Center
First Floor
Amherst, MA
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NERCOMP Members: $115
Non-Members: $240
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Event Schedule:
8:00am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee
9:00am – 9:15am Welcome and Introductions
9:15am – 10:15am Leveraging Repositories and Digital Scholarship
The growth in digital repositories is stimulating new ways of distributing scholarly work.
"Reading New England: Using Digital Technologies to Explore Landmark Texts"
Speaker: Susan Gallagher, Associate Professor Political Science Dept., University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Under the auspices of the University of Massachusetts Press, Reading New England will publish an ongoing series of digital critical editions of landmark works by our region's most important authors. Like paper-based critical editions of classic texts, each digital critical edition will include a comprehensive introduction, detailed annotations, and expert commentary. Unlike paper-based books, our editions will also feature a wealth of documentary images, historical newspaper and periodical articles, and, as appropriate, sound and video files. Our first three digital critical editions, Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren's "The Right to Privacy" (1890), Henry David Thoreau's "Resistance to Civil Government" (1849), and W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk (1903) will be made freely available to the public in 2010 and 2011. In producing and disseminating these landmark texts, we aim to take full advantage of the documentary potential of digital technologies while also preserving the exacting standards of evaluation that are generally associated with high-quality scholarly publications.
Transforming Scholarly Publishing: The Society of Architectural Historians in the 21st Century
Speaker: Ann Whiteside, Head, Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, Project Director, SAHARA
The Society of Architectural Historians is a scholarly society engaged in new digital publishing ventures. The Society’s online journal (JSAH Online) will launch March 1, 2010, and a new archive of visual content (SAHARA) launched one year ago. The goals of SAH’s online publishing are to transform change scholarly modes of analyzing architecture; to develop new online publication types that will help to make digital publishing equal to print publishing; and to create new kinds of editorial roles. Whiteside will discuss how SAH is approaching digital publishing in a scholarly society.
Making Teaching Visible: Using Repositories to Disseminate Gray Literature
Speaker: Jessica Adamick, Ethics Clearinghouse Librarian, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Over the past two decades, subject repositories have become a firmly established outlet for the dissemination of pre- and post-prints in the sciences, social sciences, and engineering. With WorldCat and Google Scholar gaining momentum, discovery of these materials has never been easier for users. Repository managers now have the opportunity to capitalize on this environment and share materials that have not been traditionally published and widely distributed, such as teaching modules, case studies, and syllabi. This presentation will discuss the need for such a service, and will give concrete strategies for collection development in this area, using the Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse Beta (ESENCe) as an example.
Panel Q&A
10:15am - 10:30am Break
10:30am – 12:20pm Online Journal Systems
Online journal systems make it possible to create peer-reviewed journals at very low cost
New Partnerships with Faculty: Creating and Publishing Open Access Journals
Speaker: Marilyn Billings, Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
This presentation explores new collaborations with faculty to create, manage, and distribute open access journals using UMass Amherst’s digital repository ScholarWorks as a case study. We will also touch on how we engaged with faculty to distribute conference proceedings and other scholarly materials.
Open Journal Systems: An Open Source Alternative to Commercial Online Journal Systems
Speaker – Jennifer Laherty, Digital Publishing Librarian, IUScholarWorks, Indiana University Bloomington Libraries
This presentation will explain the selection and decision process Indiana University Libraries’ followed for selecting a journal publishing platform and the Libraries’ current publishing vision will be explained. Various OJS features and functionality will be demonstrated using examples from IU and elsewhere.
Digital Publishing Services: Adding Value (and Success) to Repository Services
Speaker: Dave Stout, Sales Director, Digital Commons, The Berkeley Electronic Press
Universities and colleges of all types and sizes are engaging scholars and administration at their institution with services that are relevant to those stakeholders. But how do you achieve this?
Learn how librarians are using publishing services to attract faculty, students, campus administrators, and their scholarship to their Institutional Repository. See how integrated publishing services are becoming the cornerstone to campus-wide success in reclaiming publishing activities* within the academy.
*See the Call to Action issued by ARL, AAU, CNI, and NASULGC (now APLU): http://www.arl.org/news/pr/universities-12feb09.shtml
Panel Q&A
Lunch 12:20pm - 1:20pm
1:20pm – 3:00pm Print on Demand
Universities and vendors are taking advantage of this exciting new technology
Print on Demand and Changing Work Flows and Business Models at a Small University Press
Speaker: Suzanna Tamminen, Director and Editor-in-Chief, Wesleyan University Press
Wesleyan University Press is one of the smallest presses in the Association of American University Presses, publishing 25 titles annually and employing four full-time staff. Since 1995, we have been using digital print technology to print in smaller quantities than would be viable using conventional printing. Developments in both the technology and infrastructure supporting the digital print program mean it is now possible to support very rapid restocking of books in numbers as low as one, or even genuine print-to-demand where appropriate. It is an ongoing effort to make sure that the digital print program is integrated within our existing business, finance, and distribution systems. As our digital print program has developed, completely new publishing endeavors have emerged which have much more demanding production and set-up requirements. These include publishing new digital paperback versions of low-selling hardbacks, reviving titles from out-of-print, and publishing new titles as digital print and electronic from the beginning. I will discuss the impact, both positive and negative, on our work flows and business models of these increasingly important parts of our publishing program.
Short Run Digital Printing and Print On Demand at the UMass Press
Speaker: Bruce Wilcox, Director of University Press, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bruce will discuss the extent to which the UMass Press has switched from traditional offset printing to short run digital printing (SRDP) and print-on-demand (POD). He will also talk about new opportunities presented by POD technology.
On-demand Exhibition Catalogs: A Case Study – Remote Speaker
Speaker: Clifton Meador, Associate Professor and Director Interdisciplinary MFA in Book and Paper, Columbia College Chicago
Clifton will present the background, rationale, and experiences we encountered in producing a print-on-demand catalog for an exhibition at the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies and at Columbia College Chicago. He will cover the negative as well as the positive aspects of on-demand as a potential production method for exhibition catalogs.
Panel Q&A
3:00pm Evaluations and End
Speaker:
Ann Whiteside
Ann Whiteside is an architecture and visual images librarian, with particular foci on descriptive metadata and digital library collection building. Her experience includes the development of metadata element sets and guidelines, both nationally and at individual institutions; planning for production and delivery of digital images; and oversight and management of image collections. Ms. Whiteside has participated in the development of image cataloging databases, union catalogs for image collections, and digital image repositories, and writing cataloging guidelines for local use. She has chaired the Visual Resources Association Data Standards Committee, and as a member of that committee was involved in the development of the VRA Core Categories, a descriptive standard for cataloging images. Ann is co-chair of the Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Works and their Images (CCO) project, a data content standard. The project includes an American Library Association print publication, a web-site, and training activities. She is also a consultant for digital image projects, and is an advisory committee member for projects related to digital imaging and image management. Ann is currently Project Director for a grant funded project of the Society of Architectural Historians, which will develop a repository of visual content for research, publication, and teaching in architectural history.
Speaker:
Bruce Wilcox
Bruce Wilcox began his career in scholarly publishing in 1970 at the University of Washington Press. Since 1983 he has been director of the University of Massachusetts Press. He has also been active in the Association of American University Presses, serving on many AAUP committees, as well as two terms on the board of directors and one term as president.
Speaker:
Clifton Meador
Clifton Meador is an artist whose work combines photography, writing, printmaking, and design to explore how history, narrative, and place shape the space of the book. He has been the recipient of many grants and fellowships, most notably two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, and a Fulbright Scholar Award to the Republic of Georgia. His work is featured in many collections including the Library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Yale Art of the Book collection. He is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary MFA in Book and Paper at Columbia College Chicago.
Speaker:
David Stout
For 10 years Mr. Stout has excelled at building strong relationships and providing innovative and valuable technology-rich solutions and services for academic libraries.
After 6 years providing sales leadership for the SFX product line at Ex Libris, Dave joined the executive team at Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress). Dave has successfully translated the value of Digital Commons, established a growing community of customer-experts, and continues to grow the academic institutions customer base at bepress.
When asked, Dave describes the success of the Digital Commons platform in two parts:
1) "Digital Commons services help build very strong and mutually rewarding relationships between the library and the entire academic community served by that library—this is the quintessential differentiating value of Digital Commons."; and
2) "it simply works!"
Dave lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan with his wife and 10 year old son.
Speaker:
Jennifer Laherty
Jennifer Laherty is the Digital Publishing Librarian for IUScholarWorks (http://scholarworks.iu.edu/) at Indiana University, Bloomington. Since 2007 she has been managing the content in the open access institutional repository and supporting OA journal publishing endeavors by working with faculty who are editors of both newly conceived journals and established journals. Previously, Jennifer was at California State University, East Bay where she held the following positions: collection development officer, acquisitions coordinator, general reference and undergraduate instruction librarian, and collection manager in a variety of disciplines.
Speaker:
Jessica Adamick
Jessica Adamick is the Ethics Clearinghouse Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she provides primary support for the Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse Beta (ESENCe), an NSF-funded subject repository for the responsible conduct of research (http://www.ethicslibrary.org). Jessica received her MLS from Indiana University Bloomington with a specialization in Digital Libraries. She holds a B.A. in Women’s Studies from Earlham College.
Speaker:
Marilyn Billings
Marilyn Billings is the Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian
at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She provides campus-wide leadership and
education in alternative scholarly communication strategies and is frequently an invited
speaker at faculty department colloquia. She gives presentations on author rights, alternative digital publishing models and the role of digital repositories in today's research and scholarship endeavors at the regional, national, and international levels. As co-PI on an NSF funded grant to create an Ethics Clearinghouse in response to the America COMPETES Act, Marilyn works closely with faculty, researchers, and administrative staff and organizes programs on many new and emerging topics. Another key aspect of her responsibilities includes the oversight of the institutional repository ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst. Recent presentations include "The Academic Library as Publishing Agent: showcasing student, faculty, and campus scholarship and publications.” with Terri Fishel at the Association of College and Research Libraries in Seattle, WA in March 2009; “Exploring Ways That Institutional Repositories Facilitate New Roles and Partnerships for Libraries and the Academy” at the Czech and Slovak Library Information Network (CASLIN) conference in Prague, CZ in June and providing workshops at numerous institutions. Her presentation “Changing Scholarly Communications and the Role of an Institutional Repository in the Digital Landscape” appears in the ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit.
Speaker:
Susan Gallagher
Susan Gallagher is Associate Professor of Political Science at UMass Lowell. She is currently working in collaboration with faculty, librarians, and staff at UMass and other institutions to implement Reading New England, a new digital imprint at UMass Press that will publish multimedia documentary editions of landmark works by regional authors.
Speaker:
Suzanna Tamminen
Suzanna Tamminen is Director and Editor-in-Chief at Wesleyan University Press and has worked at the press since 1990. Her poems and essays have appeared in various journals including Prairie Schooner, Rattle and The Alembic. She received the “2008 Outstanding Service to Dance Research” award from the Congress on Research in Dance.
Related Media Files:
JenniferLahertyDigPublish.pdf
DigPub-Billings.pdf
stout_Digital Publish.pdf
WUP POD March 23.pdf
sales chart-Wesleyan.pdf
DigitalPubAdamick.pdf
Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
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