From University Press to the University's Press

Against the Grain, Dec 2014

By Gary Dunham and Carolyn Walters, Published on 01/01/14

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From University Press to the University's Press

From University Press to the University 's Press Gary Dunham 0 1 2 0 Indiana University Press and Digital Publishing , USA 1 Carolyn Walters Indiana University , USA 2 by Isaac Gilman, Associate Professor/Scholarly Communication and Publishing Services Librarian, Pacific University Libraries Follow this and additional works at: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/atg Part of the Library and Information Science Commons - noted above, a project like this aligns very well with the missions of university presses and research libraries. By constructing a sustainable publishing and archiving workflow, we expect to support the research, teaching, and outreach of our parent institution while providing an example and expertise to the broader academic publishing community. Toby: I am particularly excited about the prospects for undergraduate and graduate research and creative activity at our university. Through teaching and research services, academic libraries contribute significantly to students’ success in finding, evaluating, and using recorded knowledge. Our support of digital scholarship as a teaching method, however, allows us to go beyond this by expanding the opportunities for our students to contribute to the creation of new knowledge rather than just to consume it. Potential funders like Mellon are increasingly looking to sustainability in terms of both infrastructure and institutional or other support when evaluating fundable projects. What are your thoughts on sustainability for the Georgia project, both short- and long-term? Steve: The whole point of our new project is to weave it into broad, established infrastructures — the Lab, the Press, the Library—and into every aspect of university life — research, teaching, and service. This helps ensure long-term sustainability because it means our constituencies and audiences are truly broad, including university administrators, an interdisciplinary faculty, librarians and Press personnel, and a diverse range of students from both the humanities and STEM disciplines. Once something is stitched into the fabric of university life and into the university’s mission, sustainability becomes a little easier. Mick: Faculty, university presses, and research libraries all require institutional support (infrastructure and funding) to do their work, and that work supports the core activities and mission of the university while extending the reach and visibility of the university’s accomplishments. This project is no different. University presses, as the publishing component of this venture, are unique to the extent they can cover portions of their expenses through business expertise (selling content). But there is also high interest in new digital publications being made available at little or no cost to consumers (faculty, students, a broader reading community). With that open access expectation, costs need to be recovered at other stages of the process. Variations of this “flipped” cost recovery model are part of what we hope to explore with DiGA. So, for DiGA, support will need to come from the university and outside funding agencies for the initial phase. If the project is given time to develop, the goal would be to see how much of the operating cost could be recovered through alternate funding and monetizing options. From University Press to the University’s Press: Building a One-Stop Campus Resource for Scholarly Publishing by Gary Dunham (Director, Indiana University Press and Digital Publishing) <> and Carolyn Walters (Executive Director, Indiana University, Office of Scholarly Publishing) <> Twas established in 2012 by Indiana he Office of Scholarly Publishing (OSP) University in order to strengthen its central missions of scholarship and teaching, and to create a model of effective, sustainable 21st-century academic publishing. Units of the OSP include Indiana University Press (IU Press), its premier imprint, and IUScholarWorks (IUSW), the open access publishing program of the IU Libraries. The creation of the OSP is an important step in the evolution of scholarly publishing, as it shifts the engine of content dissemination on campus from the university press to the university itself. It signals the University’s strong and ongoing commitment to academic publishing during a time when the sustainability and even relevance of the traditional university press are questioned frequently. The Office of Scholarly Publishing also reflects the University’s recognition of scholarly publishing in all the forms and processes emerging from rapidly changing digital communication technologies. As a centralizing publishing portal, the OSP supports a model of academic publishing that is intrinsically holistic and singular — many campus stakeholders participate in an integrated process of content development, enrichment, dissemination, curation, and knowledge transfer. Indiana University Press is playing a key role in bringing to fruition this new model by realigning with t (...truncated)


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Gary Dunham, Carolyn Walters. From University Press to the University's Press, Against the Grain, 2014, Volume 26, Issue 6,