This is a role that many Journals and E-resources Librarians and Repository managers fulfil on a daily basis and is arguably library publishing at its most basic level. A quick look at TERMS shows that librarians know more about publishing than they realise, for example:

• Licensing
• Copyright consultation
• Knowledge of open access
• Scholarly communication issues
• Publishing issues, such as the importance of metadata, ISSNs, DOIs and A&I indexing. Librarians are experts at metadata and therefore understand completely the role of the correct metadata and adoption of standards in order to aid discoverability
• Author rights, repository managers often advise authors of their rights regarding open access and commercial publishing, so they are well placed to offer the same guidance to university presses who wish to adopt an open access approach
• Discovery including abstracting and indexing services and webscale management services. For example, many ‘in house’ journals are not at all discoverable. Getting the library involved at this level could help to move them from a departmental website to the repository
• Advise on digitization of print back issues
• Integration of blogs and wikis
• Marketing, E-resources managers are often involved in the marketing of new resources, they are also on the receiving end of many publisher communications.
• Preservation

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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