scholarly journals Exploring the University as an e-Textbook Provider of Scholarly Work

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Rennie ◽  
Keith Smyth ◽  
Gareth Davies ◽  
Scott Connor ◽  
Laurence Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Institution ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Publication Process ◽  
Scholarly Output ◽  
Global Space ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
The University ◽  
Storage Distribution

Despite the growth in the popularity of e-textbooks, there has yet to be adopted an effective model through which an academic institution can easily re-purpose the scholarly output of its staff to allow global and affordable access to students. This paper describes a research project designed to explore effective processes for the university to become a digital publisher of its own academic output. The project produced two e-textbooks, focusing on using Amazon Kindle for distribution, each book with a free companion website of open access learning resources. The use of the e-texts and the websites were then monitored for evaluation. The publication process was documented and will be made publicly available in the final report on the JISC website. In summary, the pre-publication tasks are almost identical to the production of a conventional printed book, but at publication, everything else changes. The e-textbook system minimises the problems of storage, distribution, pricing, and updating which is faced by the printed book. The companion websites provide a global space with resources complementary to the e-book, which can be updated without the requirement to amend the e-textbook. Several different categories of e-books have been identified, from short handbooks for internal course use, through open-access textbooks, to flagship commercial publications. It is recognised that these e-publications may replace or co-exist with both printed books and companion websites.

scholarly journals Editorial

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Greco
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Institution ◽  
Publication Process ◽  
Future Paper ◽  
The Future ◽  
Strong Commitment ◽  
The Moment ◽  
University Of Zurich ◽  
The University

We are excited to announce that, starting with this issue 17(1), our journal Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS) will be published Open Access on the HOPE platform of the Hauptbibliothek of the University of Zurich; you can access our new SComS at www.scoms.ch. HOPE refers to Hauptbibliothek Open Publishing Environment. Located in and managed by a Swiss academic institution, this platform provides full open access to SComS contents, with a strong commitment to a transparent and qualitatively excellent publication process, whilst guaranteeing no publishing fees for our authors. We are grateful to Elsevier for our collaboration, which lasted from 2012 to 2016; now the moment has come for us to be open to the future. Paper copies of our new SComS will still be available – for example, in the main libraries at Swiss universities; but all the contents will be also freely available for everybody to download from our website.

scholarly journals Open Access publication workflow for academic books

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Schrader ◽  
Alexander Grossmann ◽  
Michael Reiche ◽  
David Bohm
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Final Version ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
University Of Applied Sciences ◽  
University Presses ◽  
The University ◽  
Publication Workflow

A draft (final version) of an media-neutral as well as both cost-effective and personnel-efficient publications workflow for Open Access (OA) monograph publishing at university presses is presented. The workflow has been developed as a result of the research project Open-Access-Hochschulverlag at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Germany. The aim of the project is to develop a sustainable and adoptable workflow to enable universities to publish their publications as OA and printed books simultaneously in a state-of-the-art way and without any restrictions regarding the license, the variety of formats, print run etc. Up to now, we have defined 17 process groupswith up to 9processes,which a university press has to consider when publishing OA books state-of-the-art. These processes have been shown on the poster (it is the final version of the project, two preliminary versionswerealready published in April and June 2019). The arrangement and the arrows between the processes indicate in which order the processes should be ideally organised by the university presses. Since any university may adapt that workflow individually, it includes several possible ways by which an OA book can be published (see process group Ka or Qe at the poster). The visualisation of the publication workflow represents only a part of the results of our research project. In addition detailed descriptions for each process have been created, which explain a certain process in depth, e.g. who is responsible for it, what time it takes and what it may cost to complete the process. These detailed descriptions will be published elsewhere.

EScholarship at the University of California: a case study in sustainable innovation for open access

2004 ◽  
Vol 105 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 118-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Ann Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Joint Effort ◽  
Scholarly Output ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University

This paper describes the history of the University of California eScholarship program, a joint effort of the University of California Libraries in collaboration with the California Digital Library. It discusses the context that gave rise to the creation of the eScholarship Repository, the logistical issues involved in setting up a multi‐campus persistent repository for scholarly output, and future issues to be addressed in developing experimental reconfigurations of the components of scholarly communication in collaboration with communities of scholars.

scholarly journals Beyond Copyright and Technology: What Open Access Can Tell Us about Precarity, Authority, Innovation, and Automation in the University Today

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Kelty
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
The State ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Changing Practices ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

In this interview, we discuss what open access can teach us about the state of the university, as well as practices in scholarly publishing. In particular the focus is on issues of labor and precarity, the question of how open access enables or blocks other innovations in scholarship, the way open access might be changing practices of scholarship, and the role of technology and automation in the creation, evaluation, and circulation of scholarly work.

scholarly journals Towards an Open Access publication workflow for monographs for university presses

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Schrader ◽  
Alexander Grossmann ◽  
Michael Reiche ◽  
David Bohm
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
University Of Applied Sciences ◽  
University Presses ◽  
The University ◽  
Publication Workflow

Adraft (second version) of an media-neutral as well as both cost-effective and personnel-efficient publications workflow for Open Access (OA) monograph publishing at university presses is presented. The workflow has been developed as a result of the research project Open-Access-Hochschulverlag at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Germany. The aim of the project is to develop a sustainable and adoptable workflow to enable universities to publish their publications as OA and printed books simultaneously in a state-of-the-art way and without any restrictions regarding the license, the variety of formats, print run etc. Up to now, we have defined 18 main processes (in green) with up to 8 sub-processes (in orange) which a university press has to consider when publishing OA books state-of-the-art. These processes have been shown on the poster (it is the second veersion of the workflow draft - the first version was published on25th April 2019). The arrangement and the arrows between the processes indicate in which order the processes should be ideally organised by the university presses. Since any university may adapt that workflow individually, it includes several possible ways by which an OA book can be published (see process 1 or 3 at the poster). The visualisation of the publication workflow represents only a part of the results of our research project. In addition detailed descriptions for each process have been created, which explain a certain process in depth, e.g. who is responsible for it, what time it takes and what it may cost to complete the process. These detailed descriptions will be published elsewhere.

scholarly journals Towards an Open Access publication workflow for monographs for university presses

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Schrader ◽  
Alexander Grossmann ◽  
Michael Reiche ◽  
David Bohm
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
University Of Applied Sciences ◽  
University Presses ◽  
The University ◽  
Publication Workflow

A first draft of an media-neutral as well as both cost-effective and personnel-efficient publications workflow for Open Access (OA) monograph publishing at university presses is presented. The workflow has been developed as a result of the research project Open-Access-Hochschulverlag at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Germany. The aim of the project is to develop a sustainable and adoptable workflow to enable universities to publish their publications as OA and printed books simultaneously in a state-of-the-art way and without any restrictions regarding the license, the variety of formats, print run etc. Up to now, we have defined 20 main processes with up to 12 sub-processes which a university press has to consider when publishing OA books state-of-the-art. These processes have been shown on the poster. The arrangement and the arrows between the processes indicate in which order the processes should be ideally organised by the university presses. Since any university may adapt that workflow individually, it includes several possible ways by which an OA book can be published (see process 1 or 3 at the poster). The visualisation of the publication workflow represents only a part of the results of our research project. In addition detailed descriptions for each process have been created, which explain a certain process in depth, e.g. who is responsible for it, what time it takes and what it may cost to complete the process. These detailed descriptions will be published elsewhere.

scholarly journals Encounters in Theory and History of Education/Encuentros en Teoría e Historia de la Educación/Rencontres en Théorie et Histoire de l’Éducation

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen PJ Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Publication Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
Queen's University

Rosa Bruno-Jofré (Queen’s University, Canada) and Gonzalo Jover Olmeda (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) co-founded Encounters in Theory and History of Education in 2000. Encounters was created to support scholarly work on the theory and history of education and disseminate it to the widest audience possible. With this goal in mind, Encounters has always been completely open access, and publishes articles in English, French, and Spanish. This article explains the history, publication process, and future of Encounters. Résumé Rosa Bruno-Jofré (Queen’s University, Canada) et Gonzalo Jover Olmeda (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) ont co-fondé Rencontres en théorie et histoire de l’éducationen l’an 2000. Ils ont créé Rencontresafin d’appuyer la recherche sur la théorie et l’histoire de l’éducation et la disséminer au plus vaste public possible. Afin d’atteindre ce but, Rencontresa toujours été disponible en libre accès et publie des articles en anglais, français et espagnol. Cet article explique l’histoire, le processus éditorial et l’avenir de Rencontres.

First steps for a library publisher

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Somaly Kim Wu ◽  
Heather McCullough
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Electronic Publishing ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
Publishing Services ◽  
Communication Policies ◽  
The University

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to presents the very recent development of e-journal publishing services at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte. In 2011, the J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte created a new unit in the library, the Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL), which partners with faculty and graduate students in the use of digital and networked research tools to create, disseminate and store new knowledge. E-journal publishing and hosting are among the suite of services offered by the DSL, and we currently publish three journals (https://journals.uncc.edu/). Design/methodology/approach – This report provides an overview of the context of our library’s decision to begin publishing journals, including a discussion of our university’s becoming more research-intensive, our university system mandating increased efficiencies and sharing research with the state citizens, and the library’s own goals of raising awareness of and supporting open access. Also outlined are the technical and procedural choices made, important activities undertaken to develop, define and publicize the new services, campus response to the service and next steps. Findings – This report provides detailed accounting of how a large academic library implemented an electronic publishing service to support open access scholarship. Important activities such as marketing communication, policies development and technical/procedural activities are defined and results described. The report provides observation and lessons learned for academic libraries in development and support of electronic journals. Originality/value – Library as the publisher is a new concept. This report will be of interest to many libraries who are considering offering publishing services and to libraries that currently offer publishing services.

scholarly journals How do future publication plans affect theses availability in UiT’s open access research archive?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Larssen
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Document Management ◽  
Electronic Survey ◽  
Master Thesis ◽  
On Line ◽  
Future Publication ◽  
Phd Theses ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The University

Watch the VIDEO of the presentation.Open access to research results is a stated aim for the University of Tromsø – The artic university of Norway. The university’s research archive, Munin, has a well-developed system to make available the university’s own research, as well as master theses written by its students. Both master and PhD theses from UiT are delivered directly through Munin and can be made openly available on-line. Despite of this, many candidates choose not to have their theses made openly available through Munin. In my master thesis in document management, I examined why some candidates opt against, or postpone, making their theses openly available through Munin. What factors influence this decision, and are the given reasons based on actual issues or on misconceptions?From Munin I was given access to metadata from previously delivered, and passed, master and PhD theses where the candidate wanted to withhold their theses from being made openly available in Munin. The metadata contained the reasons provided by the candidates for their decision. I also conducted an electronic survey among, then, current master students where the goal was to examine current students’ attitudes towards making their thesis openly available in Munin, and compare the results from this survey with reasons stated by former master and PhD candidates.The main reason provided for postponing or refusing open access to their theses, given by both former master and PhD candidates, and current master students, where the fear that it would impair their chances for future publication. My study also showed that both master and PhD candidates from the faculty of health science are less likely to make their theses openly available in Munin, than candidates from other faculties. This faculty also had more candidates than other expressing concern over the possibilities for future publication.Why do candidates from different faculties within the same university show different attitudes towards having their work openly available? Are candidates right in their concerns regarding open availability and future publication, or are these concerns based on unfounded fears? Does it matter if master and PhD candidates choses not to make their work openly available, and can candidates be encouraged to make their work available?

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