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The Open Access Advantage For American Law Reviews, Carol Watson, James M. Donovan, Caroline Osborne
The Open Access Advantage For American Law Reviews, Carol Watson, James M. Donovan, Caroline Osborne
Caroline L. Osborne
Open access within legal academia provides a case study for the effective use of digital formats to promote scholarship. The presenters review the background historical developments in this field, and consider the benefits and rationales for providing open access to legal scholarship, including the special faculty concerns arising from SSRN and its relationship to the institutional repository. Results from the presenters’ recent empirical study of the citation advantage for open access scholarship in American law reviews will be discussed and placed in broader context of the benefits of open access scholarship.
What Is "Library Publishing" At A Liberal Arts College?, Janelle L. Wertzberger
What Is "Library Publishing" At A Liberal Arts College?, Janelle L. Wertzberger
Janelle Wertzberger
Panel title Cultivating Sustainable Library Publishing Services: Perspectives from a Range of Academic Libraries Discover how three institutions - a liberal arts college, a comprehensive university, and a research university - provide library-led publishing services to their campuses. The panelists will share how their respective institutions have developed and aligned policies, infrastructure, staffing, outreach, and strategic partnerships in order to provide sustainable publishing services. This presentation will also explore the risks and rewards in establishing innovative library publishing services in ways that support institutional missions.
A Small Library Launches A Publishing Program, Janelle L. Wertzberger
A Small Library Launches A Publishing Program, Janelle L. Wertzberger
Janelle Wertzberger
Panel title: Staffing a Library Publishing Program: The Whos, Hows, and Whens Panel abstract: This session aims to address one of the most frequently raised concerns about library-led publishing: how to plan for staffing this new endeavor? The panel will discuss two inflection points in staff planning for library publishing: what it takes to get started (for a library that is just beginning to think about publishing), and what it takes to grow (for a library that has a few years of experience and wants to do more). It will also shed light on one of the least understood, and …