The Open Access publishing landscape: why academic libraries are entering the Open Access publishing space.

This report summarizes the work of an investigation at Duke University into how libraries can embrace their role in the maturing space of digital humanities publishing, particularly as they seek to support what we call “expansive digital publishing.”

Creating a brand new journal with OJS? Challenging, but doable.  Creating every element of a student-run journal to publish student research with people who have little to no previous experience in scholarly publishing: At times seemingly impossible.  Learning the processes of creating and running an OJS journal at the same time as developing criteria and documentation for what a journal should even publish has been a complex, but incredibly rewarding experience. We've dealt with challenges related to sustainability (a high turnover rate in editors and contributors as most students are only at the school for approximately two years), responsibility (who does what, why they do it, when the deadlines are, and how come you've missed them?), and not having any idea of what we're doing.  Despite all of these problems the first, and hopefully not last, issue of See Also: The SLAIS Student Journal was published in 2015. You can (or will soon be able to) find the first issue at: http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/seealso/

Berkeley Electronic Press Selected Works

Background: At the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) Membership Meeting at the 2017 Library Publishing Forum in Baltimore, Maryland, the community discussed how the LPC can respond to the current political climate. The discussion was wide-ranging, but kept coming back to the importance of library values and our responsibility as library publishers to center our publishing practice around them. A number of those present offered to devise a way for the conversation to continue beyond the Forum. That group included Marilyn Billings, Jason Boczar, Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Harrison W. Inefuku, Joshua Neds-Fox, Matt Ruen, Emily Stenberg, and Monica Westin, who proposed a task force to tackle the issues raised. This task force was charged with creating an Ethical Framework for Library Publishing . From July of 2017 to June of 2018, the task force members (listed on the title page as authors of this document) identified the topics to be covered in the framework, and then worked in subgroups to review the literature on those topics and identify existing resources of particular relevance to the community of library publishers. The subgroups then drafted the sections you see in this document. Throughout this process, they worked iteratively to devise a structure and format for the framework—a challenging task, and one for which there were many inspirations, but no clear models. In the end, they decided that the most effective structure for the document would break each section into an introduction , a scope statement , a review of existing resources , and a set of recommendations for library publishers. Some sections also include a note about new resources that are needed and/or further readings on the topic. Context: library publishing and ethics: Academic libraries have entered the publishing space due to changes in ways of disseminating information and in response to faculty members’ desire to control their own publishing destiny. This work has been enabled by the emergence of open source or low-cost technologies for publishing, but the motivations for it are broad and deep—for example, library publishers are also deeply engaged with emerging forms of scholarship (and emerging disciplines) that do not yet have a voice within the traditional publishing environment. These motivations often include a desire for increased openness and sustainability in the scholarly communication landscape. Unlike commercial publishers and traditional presses, the work of library publishers is largely funded through existing library budgets without a profit motive. The goal is

As local news outlets disappear in America, some libraries are gaining new relevance.

... library as not-publisher?