Adjunct No More: Promoting Scholarly Publishing as a Core Service of Academic Libraries

Against the Grain, Nov 2017

By Isaac Gilman, Published on 01/01/14

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Adjunct No More: Promoting Scholarly Publishing as a Core Service of Academic Libraries

Adjunct No More: Promoting Scholarly Publishing as a Core Ser vice of Academic Libraries Isaac Gilman Pacific U niversity Libraries - turning your dissertation into a book, writing a proposal (the most requested topic), what you need to know before signing a contract, manuscript preparation, getting permissions, how to create an index, and marketing your book. Other feedback recommended clearly defining the intended audience for all workshops as well as the discipline focus. Many appreciated the expert advice but wanted to hear directly from faculty who had recently published their first book. Samples of good proposals were also requested. All of these ideas will be incorporated into planning future events. The robust workshop program offered in the Scholars’ Commons is divided into four tracks. OSP programs are offered in the “Surviving and Thriving in Academia” and “Tools in Context” tracks.3 Attendees at workshops, including those offered by OSP staff, are from a wide variety of disciplines. Attendees at the session on publishing a first book were from education, telecommunications, Jewish studies, religious studies, theatre, communication and culture, law, music, informatics, fine arts, political science, applied health science, speech and hearing, English, and more. “Before Signing a Book Contract” (waitlisted) and “Getting Permissions for Your Book” have been added to the workshop series based on feedback and the faculty advisory committee report. Programs on open access publishing and using Open Journal Systems for peer review are also popular. OSP staff also participated in Open Access Week programs on student publishing and the basics of publishing agreements. IU Press staff (alternating among marketing, editorial, and journals), the copyright program librarian, and the open access publishing manager offer weekly consultation services in the Scholars’ Commons for two hour blocks of time for a total of six hours a week. In addition to OSP, partners in providing consultation services include University Information Technology Services, Center for Survey Research, Office of Research Administration, Office of Vice-Provost for Research, HathiTrust Research Center, and Indiana Statistical Consulting Services.4 Consultations services and workshops are publicized through faculty newsletters, blogs, Websites, departmental listservs, email to Graduate and Professional Student organization members, and via email to previous workshop attendees. So far, IU Press has amassed a mailing list of close to 300 previous workshop attendees to use when announcing new programs. In today’s increasingly complex publishing environment, it is difficult for experienced faculty, and even more difficult for recently appointed tenure-track faculty, to determine the best publication option for their research. Sharing publishing knowledge and expertise within our own institution is an invaluable service OSP staff can provide and one that is greatly appreciated by administrators, faculty, and graduate students. By developing the Office of Scholarly Publishing, Indiana University seeks to offer a more encompassing, sustainable, and relevant model of academic publishing on campus. Leveraging the strengths of the Libraries and Office of Scholarly Publishing visibly demonstrates the important roles that each have in supporting the research process. In doing so, both will be stronger for working together to fulfill the campus mission to “create, disseminate, preserve, and apply knowledge” and be active participants in the intellectual life of the university. (Endnotes) 1. Scholarly Publishing Advisory Committee Report to the Provost, June 25, 2013: http://provost.indiana.edu/docs/Scholarly_ Publishing_Advisory_Committee_2013.pdf. 2. Scholars’ Commons: http://libraries.iub. edu/scholars-commons 3. For information on the workshop series: http://libraries.iub.edu/tools/workshops/. 4. For consulting schedule see: http:// libraries.iub.edu/services/scholars-commons#n60085. Adjunct No More: Promoting Scholarly Publishing as a Core Service of Academic Libraries by Isaac Gilman (Associate Professor/Scholarly Communication and Publishing Services Librarian, Pacific University Libraries) <> TCoalition (LPC) in 2013 appears to he founding of the Library Publishing substantiate earlier claims from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) that “[t]here is an emerging consensus that some sort of basic publishing services will become a core service for research libraries.”1 However, even with a growing LPC membership — and calls for digital publishing to be considered a new “core competency” for librarians2 — complete consensus among library leaders about publishing has not yet been reached.3 The lack of agreement is hardly surprising: if publishing services do become part of the core identity of academic libraries, it will represent a fundamental shift in the role of libraries within the scholarly community. Beyond this philosophical (...truncated)


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Isaac Gilman. Adjunct No More: Promoting Scholarly Publishing as a Core Service of Academic Libraries, Against the Grain, 2017, Volume 26, Issue 6,