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
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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)
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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)