4. Library scholarly publishing

“It’s time for libraries to begin producing for themselves what they can no longer afford to purchase and what they can no longer count on university presses to produce,”

Amherst College Librarian Bryn Geffert

One outcome of the rise of the open access movement is the establishment of small scale university presses, particularly in the United States and UK. Some, such as Amherst College, Mass., have launched new ventures to publish peer reviewed books in the humanities and the social sciences. Elsewhere there have been a number of library led projects to establish scholarly open access journals and conference proceedings. Many of these journals use OJS, however, there are also a number of projects that have used their Institutional Repositories as the journal platform.

This section draws on some case studies in the UK, such as the HOAP project at Huddersfield and the SAS journals project at the School of Advance Studies in London and also from a series of mini case studies published as an editorial in Serials Review

Maughan Perry, A., Borchert, C. A., Deliyannides, T. S., Kosavic, A., Kennison, R., & Dyas-Correia, S. (2011). Libraries as journal publishers. Serials Review, 37(3), 196-204.

4.1. The new university presses
4.2 Hosting
4.3 Librarian expertise
4.4 Publishing
4.5 Challenges
4.6 Sustainability

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