The Genesis of a Successful Library Publishing Program – Aisling Coyne, TUD

The Genesis of a Successful Library Publishing Program – Aisling Coyne, TUD

1. The Genesis of a Successful Library Publishing Program  Aisling Coyne Open Scholarship Librarian Technological University Dublin [email protected]

2. Brief Overview Background and Context

3. Facts about Library Publishing at TU Dublin TU Dublin is a first-of-its-kind university in Ireland, thanks in part to a first-of-its-kind open access journal publishing program that supports and amplifies the culture of research at the university Publishing since 2008 Publish 11 Open Access Journals, all 2+ years old, indexed in DOAJ No formal policy All free to read and free to publish Variety of publishing – student journals, academic journals, symposium, OERs, Brainstorm. Sustainable Academic-lead, library as support

4. Arrow@TUDublin: A brief background Arrow, our Institutional Repository is hosted on Digital Commons  https://arrow.tudublin.ie/   Digital Commons is a best-in-class hosted solution to openly publish, manage and showcase the full spectrum of your institution’s research and scholarship. It also features a professional grade publishing platform for journals, conference proceedings, open educational resources, books, campus newsletters and magazines.  Established Arrow@DIT in 2008 (now Arrow@TUDublin). Most of our publications and other material freely available to the world since 2008 and our research has been downloaded by people from 84,083 organisations in 237 countries. Arrow achieved the milestone of 10 million downloads in March and is now fast approaching 10.5 million!

5. Genesis

6. Story of our first journal 2008 lightbulb moment! Open Access Conference for the university sector. Speaker from Digital Commons (Tim Taminga) on Journal publishing.  Dr. Kevin Lalor (Head of Social Science) was in the audience, who was also the Editor of the Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies. The International Journal of Applied Social Studies (IJASS) had just lost it's funding. Arrow to the rescue!

7. Our first OA Journal: IJASS Founded in 1998  Peer-reviewed, academic, open access journal published annually IJASS is a member of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) There are no charges for authors at any stage in the process and the journal is published through Arrow@TUDublin The full text of this publication can be found on EBSCO Publishing’s databases Very important in the Irish context Uploaded back issues and moved it online Learning curve for academic editors/library Very positive feedback - Demonstrated what we could do together

8. Library Set-up, testing Design, upload back issues Develop Process Faculty Editors Editorial Board Peer review On-going Support Digital Commons  Library  Editor(s) https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijass/  

9. Publishing

10. Partnership and Roles   Academics Librarians Digital Commons Generate material and ideas Develop contacts, connections, networks Manage the Journal process Guidance Support (technical and academic) Technical support Standards and Procedures Friendly advice Listening Ear ENCOURAGEMENT

11. Library Roles Facilitation: willing to be flexible, innovative. A journal has never not happened. Can always take it down. Make it happen! Training: Synthesizing information, creating guides and guiding academics through the process Guidelines and Standards: We use  COPE  publication ethics, library sets the standards, ethics. Support: technical and academic Encouragement : pumping-up, hand-holding, you can do this! TLC: Academics are busy people, make it easy! Love and support <3 Proactive: observe trends, needs emerging, give information sessions, discussion sessions etc.

12. Publishing Diversity Student publishing – e.g Sure-J undergraduate student journal, PhD students publish in IJAP to go through peer-review here first, Masters students required to publish in IJAP. What is publishing? Outputs of the university. Ask questions, meet the needs. Niche journals – hot topics, new areas emerging all the time. E.g Event Management, different outputs. Promotion of the University – share with the world. Open to the World (our Strategic Plan) Dublin Gastronomy Symposium – led to more Open Educational Resources

13. Open Educational Resources Diversity! Another format. Creating a space for exemplars - high quality, peer-reviewed OERs.  Plan to have  'living' OERs with excellent metadata records. Archive established for all manner of OER Staff training in 'How to Upload to Arrow', and 'OERs' Competition for most uploaded by deadline with great prize Library -> creating demand , outreach Guides for academics to turn COVID-19 outputs into OERs and publish them Set up, design, training – Library roles Need Editorial Board, Peer Reviewers, Editors Library will not peer-review, proof-read or manage content

14. Dublin Gastronomy Symposium Diversity! Another format. Built out of need – like everything else Interesting format – conference papers are published in advance, audience comes to discuss Better discussion, better conference.  15 Minute presentations, promotes intellectual discussion of topics https://arrow.tudublin.ie/dgs/   Led to the creation of the European Journal of Food, Drink and Society in 2019 ( https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ejfds/)

15. Darwin's Journals Survival of the most sustainable

16. Case Study: IJRTP 5 star journal The  International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage  is a high-quality, international, open access, online, double blind reviewed publication which deals with all aspects of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage. Founded in 2013  by an international group of researchers (the Institute for Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage) The journal takes an interdisciplinary international approach and includes all aspects of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage. It is inclusive of all denominations, religions, faiths and spiritual practices. Papers can include a variety of media elements including audio and visual files, a range of image formats and hyperlinks to websites and other online resources. Member of the DOAJ Free for authors, variety of CC licenses on offer, fully OA. Indexed in Scopus 2x Editors & Book Review Editor Editorial Board (35) Industry Advisory Board https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijrtp/  

17. Case Study: Student Journal of Energy Research An example of one that did not survive Could have continued Lack of commitment from Editorial Board https://arrow.tudublin.ie/sjer/  

18. Current OA Journal Situation

19. Looking towards the future Publishing is changing! RTÉ Brainstorm – expert opinion pieces EUt+ project will have an academic press – free textbooks Peer-reviewed OERs Island Research Journal in the works Small Irish Publishers and a National Academic Press? Hot topics and emerging areas. Discussion pieces, drive conversation. Ready for it! Videos for practical skills Academic publishing is not the only way! Play with formats. We're not Elsevier, never will be! Don't have a Team.  High quality > just producing Have guides, recordings, posters at point-of-need. Give training as required. Create the demand! 

20. Top Tips from TU Dublin Work with academics – think sustainability. Get committed editors! Assess your institution to see what will work Good enough > Perfect Partnership and Content are key Set out a template and GO FOR IT! Set high standards Guidelines for authors, guidelines for Editors - make it seem less intimidating Don't publish in areas that exist – pick new areas or niche topics, niche interests. Where is a desire? Get a user-friendly system – if it's hard to use they won't use it Endless benefits! GOOD LUCK! 

21. Go raibh maith agaibh! Thank You Aisling Coyne [email protected] [phone]