Academic Writing Librarian: DBS Business Review: A New Open Access Journal

"SPARC (2016) describes open access as the ‘free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment.’  The Library of Dublin Business School (DBS) has a proven commitment to open access publishing.  DBS Library publishes Studies in Arts and Humanities, a cross institutional, peer-reviewed, open access journal which is indexed on the Directory of Open Access Journals and on an international EBSCO research database. The journal is published on the OJS publishing platform. The Library also recently launched a new open access journal called DBS Business Review. SAH Journal accepts high quality submissions from students as well as faculty. A particularly rewarding aspect of this publishing endeavour is the partnership between faculty and librarians. The Editor in Chief of the journal is Conor Murphy, lecturer in film at DBS; the Managing Editor is Alex Kouker, Subject Librarian at Dublin City University. Jane Buggle, Deputy Librarian at DBS and myself are senior editors.  In a recent issue of SAH, Jane Buggle (2016) explores the benefits of the librarian-faculty publishing phenomenon in the editorial that she authored. Jane quotes Vandergrift and Bolick (2014) who state that: “the core library value of access supports the great opportunity to share knowledge and push innovation, thus driving our entry into publishing…as libraries invest more in this space, we must uphold our values and principles of access and discoverability.”"