Transcript How to Create Your Own Scholarly Journal in Partnership

How to Create Your Own
Scholarly Journal in Partnership
with Your Campus Faculty
Eulália Roël
Digital Projects & Copyright Librarian
University of Arizona Library
insectscience.org
JIS as it exists now
JIS beta
our relationship with
www.arl.org/sparc
as a SPARC Leading Edge Partner, we are
defined as a project that represent(s) a
paradigm shift in technology use, introduce(s) an
innovative business model, and/or meet(s) the
scholarly and research information needs of an
emerging or fast-growing STM field.
[www.arl.org/sparc/index.asp?page=3]
journal of insect science
collaborators
• digital library initiatives group (dlig)
[digital.library.arizona.edu]
• Henry Hagedorn, entomology faculty
[ag.arizona.edu/ENTO/faculty/hagedorn.html] and his
Call for Change in Academic Publishing
[insectscience.org/about/callforchange.htm]
• Jeanne Phander, library’s entomology liaison
[dizzy.library.arizona.edu/users/jpfander/jpfander.html]
library acquisitions costs
• Florida Atlantic University’s Dollars & $ense: The Price
of Information [www.library.fau.edu/depts/ref/infocost.htm]
• electronic serials acquisitions-specific: Faxon Library
Services (10.4% domestic increase in costs for 2002)
[www.faxon.com/proj/up2002.htm]
one method to gain submitters: be
as inclusionary as is possible
• logo
• advisory and editorial boards:
[insectscience.org/about/editors.htm]
call for change in academic
publishing
• Henry Hagedorn’s Call for Change in Academic
Publishing [insectscience.org/about/callforchange.htm]
4.2 produce archival copies of the article for long term
preservation in appropriate formats.
5. In the event that the article is not published, these terms and
conditions shall cease to apply and neither I / we nor the University of
Arizona Library shall have any further obligations towards the other in
respect of the article or these terms and conditions.
copyright: not a source of costrecovery
• free
access to users
Author____________________________________________________
• copyright
retained with authors
Date______________________________________________________
• JIS copyright agreement:
solicit input from authors and users
building confidence in the journal
• editorial board
• expanding journal publicity
– 1st step: ISBN
– 2nd step: inclusion into portals and aggregating
services
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Biosis: www.biosis.org/about
Agricola: www.nalusda.gov/general_info/agricola/agricola.html
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts: ww.csa.com
Commonwealth Agriculture Bureaux: library.massey.ac.nz/db/cababstracts.htm
Chemical Abstracts: www.cas.org/about.html
access issues & systems
administration
• access issues
– perennial access (digital preservation)
– pdf
• retain format that is familiar
• count printed published pages for tenure calculations
• systems administration
– back-up
– refreshment of hardware
=>educating the non-technical about these issues
costs
• first and foremost: think of
your costs-benefits for
reinventing the wheel:
packages out there tailored
to journal-content
management
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BEPress
EPress
Rapid Review
Xpress Track
• what features we looked at:
– adherence to digital
preservation best practices
– how well can content be
extracted from software as a
criteria for digital preservation
best practices?
– what relationship dissolution
agreements exist?
– what software structures store
and serve their content?
– is content locally housed?
– what happens to computer
code we modify? do we own
it?
so how have we been received?
• 50 external (non-University of Arizona) websites link to
us
• 51 libraries have catalogued JIS using our OCLC record
(number 46820266)
• cited reference search turned up two articles that have
been cited by ISI titles
• over 5000 hits to home page
• 2175 downloads of the PDF versions of our papers
between 29 October 2000 & 01 February 2002
• first published paper has been downloaded about 25
times per week
next steps
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project planning for our future DTD requirements
conversion to XML
publicize and distribute
long-term systems administration
JIS having its own dedicated server
back-up, redundancy, preservation
costs shifts
publicity: new learnings for library staff
cost-recovery structure