More than 50 academic libraries, in collaboration with the Educopia Institute, founded the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) this January. The project initially emerged from conversations between Purdue University, the University of North Texas, and Virginia Tech. LJ caught up with the co-authors of the LPC’s founding documents—Julie G. Speer, Associate Dean for Research and Informatics, University Libraries Virginia Tech, and Charles Watkinson, Director and Head of Purdue Libraries' Scholarly Publishing Services and the Purdue University Press—to find out how the LPC is progressing.

Traditionally, when our library customers wanted to make something, we'd send them to the craft section or to the "how to write a poem" section of the library.…

The Provincetown Public Library will soon launch their own imprint, the Provincetown Public Press. From the Cape Cod Times: Under the new Provincetown Public Press digital publishing imprint, a dozen or so writers and artists will learn this year how to create a digital book of their work and market...

For the past year, representatives of some of the most influential university libraries in the country have been meeting and exploring the potential for library/press partnerships for scholarly publishing in the future. In the next 2 years, representatives of more than 50 academic libraries will consider their roles in the future of access to scholarly literature. Called the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC), the group is being led by Educopia Institute, an Atlanta-based consultancy that has experience working on other library digital efforts.

H2O is a suite of online classroom tools developed and provided by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society in collaboration with the Harvard Law School Library. H2O allows professors to freely develop, remix, and share online textbooks under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License (per the Terms of Service).

More on micropublishing; aimed at serials (magazines) rather than books.

Website of the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, featuring information about the online publishing platform Scalar.

Good example of scenario planning!

Prefatory note (2016) Please note that I receive several email requests per week from individuals asking for help or detailed guidance in how to setup an OA journal. With my deepest regrets, I am afraid my time is simply insufficient to provide such guidance beyond what is here on these pages.

My chunk of a four-part panel at SXSW Interactive 2012: Making Stories: Libraries & Community Publishing (with Amy Buckland, Nate Hill, and Michael Porter). Fo…

Together with the HathiTrust team, MPublishing is developing a new modular, open source platform for open access journal publishing. jPach (pronounced “jay-pack”) will replace our current digital publishing system, and will hopefully serve as a model for comparable tools for other HathiTrust partner institutions. jPach will allow MPublishing to publish journal content directly into the HathiTrust repository, and it will offer a number of benefits. First, it will be modular and extensible, so we will...  Read the full post »

This report briefly presents the findings and recommendations of the "Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success" project which investigated the extent to which publishing has now become a core activity of North American academic libraries and suggested ways in which further capacity could be built. The research described (consisting of a survey, some case studies, three workshops, and a set of further reading recommendations) was mainly conducted between October 1, 2010, and September 30, 2011. It was supported by a grant from the Institute for Museum and Libraries Studies, made to Purdue University Libraries in collaboration with the Libraries of the Georgia Institute of Technology and the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. Related resources to this document are the preliminary report of November 2011 which contains appendices that describe the research activities in general and an HTML version hosted on Comment Press that allows community comments to be posted.