Transcript Sam Kalb Scholarly Communications Services Coordinator Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada Synergies Canada's SSH Research Infrastructure  A not-for-profit platform for the publication and the dissemination.

Sam Kalb
Scholarly Communications Services Coordinator
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Synergies
Canada's SSH Research Infrastructure
 A not-for-profit platform for the publication and the
dissemination of research results in social sciences and
humanities published in Canada.
 A Canadian consortium founded on a national grant to
build electronic scholarly publishing and
dissemination support for Canadian social science and
humanities.
 21 participating universities & 4 university presses
http://www.synergiescanada.org/
Who is Queen’s?
 ARL-member public university, founded in 1841, with
approx. 20,000 students and 1,300 faculty. One of the
top ranked universities in Canada.
5 campus
libraries
135 staff, incl.
43 librarians
Library
budget: $18
million, incl.
$9.75 million
acquisition
budget
Forging New Directions in Scholarly Communications
Background
The complexity of research in the 21st century,
coupled with the transformation of information
technology and the heightened scrutiny of
responsible conduct of research issues, has
presented challenges with effective knowledge
management.
A series of resources and services were
identified to provide support for library users on
campus in the creation, access, dissemination
and preservation of knowledge in accordance
with responsible conduct of research practices.
Scholarly Communication Services
Greater Visibility, Greater Access
Queen’s University Research & Learning Repository
Publish and Manage Your Journal Online
 Increased visibility and citation counts for published and
unpublished research.
 Timely distribution of research results.
 Organized access and long-term preservation of scholarly work.
 Easy information distribution and management.
Partnerships & Collaboration
School of Graduate Studies
E-thesis Service
Office of Research Services
Queen’s IT Services
Faculty of Education – E-Journals
Historical Studies in Education Journal
Encounters on Education
Education Letter
Open Access
Queen’s University Library is committed to the
principles of Open Access (OA) to all research
results and educational resources. The Library
includes OA resources in its collection and believes
in the importance of promoting modes of scholarly
communication that enable people to share
knowledge as broadly as possible.
BioMed Central
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
membership
Open Medicine
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic
Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Social Science Research Network
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
More Information
Library Scholarly Communications web
site
http://library.queensu.ca/services/scholcomm
Sam Kalb, Assessment & Scholarly
Communications Services Coordinator
[email protected]
Queen’s Scholarly Communication
Business Models
Based on pilot projects. Served to identify community needs, appropriate
technologies, staffing and infrastructure requirements
QSpace
Digital repository
• Software: DSpace
• Dedicated Server
• Tech support:
Dedicated staff
• Admin: Schol. Comm.
Coord.
OJS @ Queen’s
Journal publishing
• Software: OJS
• Library web server
• Tech Support: Library
Systems staff
• Admin: Schol. Comm.
Coord.
IR Business Model - Sustainability
 Integration in ongoing Library and IT services
 Dedicated technical staffing
 Align services with available resources
 Focus on identified, demonstrated needs from
interested client departments, faculty or research
centers (based on pilot studies).
 Excluded from our current business plan: aiming for
large-scale buy-in (requires staff to collect, copyright
clearance, and ingesting articles on behalf of faculty)
 Partnerships
• 10 published open access titles
• 2 hidden titles in preparation
• 1 title permanently hidden Queen’s Law Journal*
* a student pub that uses our service to manage
their journal but publishes issues in own site
Elements of the Queen’s business
plan
 Vision & Objectives
 Literature review & findings from pilot project
 Projected benefits
 Service definition and scope
 Governance & organizational structure
 Financial model
 Communications & marketing
 Evaluation and ongoing review
OJS business plan for
sustainable journal publishing
 Realistic goals & services
 Software & Infrastructure matched to service goals
 In-kind support
 Internal subsidy
 Manage promotion & growth
 Statistical data / support for grant funding
 No charge to journal for base services
OJS Services at Queen's
 Queen's University Library (QUL) endeavours to support journal publishers at
Queen's in bringing their new and existing journals to the web. Using Open Journal
Systems (OJS) software, journal creators are able to publish their journals online
quickly and easily.
 What is the role of QUL with respect to Open Journal Systems?
 QUL is committed to promoting the dissemination of Queen's scholarly information
to a global audience.
 QUL is not a publisher. We provide the storage, the software and the
expertise/training required for journals to help them publish and sustain their
journal online.
 How will QUL help me put my journal online?
 QUL will provide the server space to host your journal.
 We will create your journal using OJS software, and help you with some basic
design. You will be given complete access to control the look and content of your
journal.
 We will train you and your editors in the use of OJS software. The goal is that
eventually you will be self sufficient and will be able to publish future issues
independently.
 We will provide advice & resources to help you make your journal sustainable.
Help for OJS Users
Statistical Support – Custom Statistics
Statistical
Support:
issue &
article
level
Journal Models at Queen’s - 1
 New, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal
 Open access
 Start-up funding from Office of Research Services
($5,000)
 Paid journal manager – grad student (start-up funding
+ faculty grants)
 Authors pays submissions accepted for publication
 Reviewers paid
Journal Models at Queen’s - 2
 Established peer-reviewed, scholarly journal of the
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Canadian History of Education Association
Migrated from print-only (1989) to electronic
Subscription-based (current issue) + open access for later
issues to 2010. Completely open Access from 2011.
Canadian federal grant from Social Science, Humanities
Research Council (SSHRC). Will be completely open
access in 2011.
Paid managing editor
Department in-kind support (general management,
subscription manager and tech support to migrate issues to
OJS)
Challenges to Sustainability
 Infrastructure staffing – finding & retaining key
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expertise for library tech staff + journal management
Managing service demands & expectations
Balancing resource needs with the needs of “core”
library service in times of tight finances
National funding agencies cutting back on grants
Difficulty for open access journals to be indexed by key
sources whose impact factor is used by funding bodies,
e.g. ISI Web of Knowledge.