New models of publishing: Libraries as publishers | Research Information

peter.suber's bookmarks 2022-12-07

Summary:

"oday marks the launch of Research Information Live, a three-day series of webcasts, sponsored by The MIT Press. Proceedings started with a great line-up of expert speakers who all centred their discussions around the evolving business models that libraries can engage with to strengthen publishing research.

First, we heard from Simon Bains, university librarian at the University of Aberdeen, who gave a brief overview of the history of university presses to begin with, as they are not a new phenomenon, but rather have had something of a re-emergence in recent years. Some of the challenges that Bains highlighted, taken from his experience at the University of Aberdeen, were that of culture alignment and sustainably shifting from a more established model to the new era of open access research. Further to this, the existing model of traditional journal publishing and the reliance on impact factor metrics was interrogated, leading to Bains concluding that publishing models need to be more inclusive and diverse if supporting open research is to become a reality.

This was echoed in Tracey Stanley’s presentation where she gave the perspective of Cardiff University Press, which was established in 2014. We heard about hos the mission of Cardiff University press is to create ‘academic capital’ and foster a research community – and this is evidenced by their recent research excellence framework (REF) submission results. Stanley advised those seeking to build open access presses to create and build networks of researchers and other stakeholders, but also to raise the profile and visibility of the work being built. The REF is a key lever for this according to Stanley because as she aptly put it “it’s more about the quality of research rather than the quantity of a press’ output”. All of this will tie into the academic mission of the university...."

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Date tagged:

12/07/2022, 10:07

Date published:

12/07/2022, 05:07