scholarly journals Vega: An academic publishing system for the 21st century

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl E. Ball
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Digital Publishing ◽  
Structured Data ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Peer Reviews ◽  
Data Store ◽  
Open Source Data ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
Interactive Experience ◽  
Reader Experience

Watch the VIDEO.Vega is a new, open-source academic publishing system, built as a collaboration between US-based library publishers and an Oslo-based design studio, Sanity (nee Bengler). Vega was built with a $1m Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to fill a need in academic publishing for open-source, easy-to-use editorial management system that could highlight the publication of multimedia artifacts in a born-digital publishing workflow. Vega facilitates authoring, editing, and publishing academic content as reusable structured data and facilitates innovation in indexing and presentation of this content. This short presentation will focus on the design goals underpinning Vega, specifically the goal of providing an intuitive, scholar-friendly way of editing academic documents as semantically clear, structured data while also featuring the inclusion of multimedia assets as part of the scholarly record.The Vega publishing platform incorporates collaborative digital authoring and editing platforms and a fully customizable front end for a branded reader experience. Vega is built on an open source data store and includes strong, yet flexible, editorial workflows that train editors in digital publishing best practices, especially with multimedia. For instance, the editorial dashboard features peer review options for different tracks/sections in publications, including the traditional double anonymous review process as well as collaborative reviews and fully open peer reviews, depending on each venue's and each text's needs. The UX in Vega also allows editors to see what's going on in their venues at a glance -- through a visualization that tracks each text in each stage of the editorial and production process and allows for editors to engage directly with that text with a double click regardless of where it is in the process.This presentation will highlight how Vega facilitates multiple workflows for multimodal publications (i.e. pdf, website, data, interactive experience), and how it facilitates archivability and indexability. Vega will change the scholarly communications landscape and is now available for use through free download or hosting options.

Critical Pedagogy In Libraries: A Unified Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa M. Gustafson
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Literacy Instruction ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Unified Approach ◽  
Information Literacy Instruction ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
Paolo Friere ◽  
Foundational Work

Critical pedagogy originated in the social sciences during the mid-twentieth century with the foundational work of Paolo Friere. More recently in information science, James Elmborg and others have framed critical pedagogy through the lens of information literacy instruction. As a whole the philosophy is one which considers economic, political, and societal systems which influence the entire information life cycle from creation to consumption. Central to the adoption was the incorporation of learners as equals with valid and highly individualized experiences in academic discourse. Beyond information literacy instruction, critical pedagogy has the potential to also benefit and define the librarian's outreach and support role for the scholarly communications process. Scholarly communications encompasses both traditional academic publishing models (peer reviewed journals, conference presentations, etc.) and nontraditional channels (social media, open access, etc.) and is concerned with the information lifecycle as it relates to teaching research and scholarly work. In consideration of scholarly communications processes, issues of critical pedagogy including external market forces, privilege of information, systems of access, and consumption all play a defining role. A move to a more unified approach of critical pedagogy in libraries would highlight crucial issues of information literacy and scholarly communications while simultaneously augmenting the library's role across campus. The evolution of critical pedagogy in libraries is briefly discussed. Current scholarly communications practices in academic libraries as seen through the literature and by examining U.S. library websites is also reviewed. The author makes suggestions for meaningful inclusion of critical pedagogy in libraries through a unified approach to scholarly communications and information literacy programs.

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