What Does “Brand” Mean for Library-based Presses? | The Scholarly Kitchen

"Roxanne Missingham at the Australian National University recently pointed me to a blog post sharing the results of a survey by the Library Publishing Advisory Committee of CAUL (the Council of Australian University Librarians). The survey sheds light on the 'wide variety of practices and activity' that make up today’s library publishing scene in Australia and New Zealand. The key findings of the survey (to quote from Roxanne’s post) are: [1] One in four university libraries in Australia is publishing original scholarly works in some form (mostly journals) [2] Most are available online and are open access [3] The publications are read widely (over 3.4 million downloads this year) and internationally [4] New skills and services have been developed that support innovative publishing and scholarly communication [5] Australian university publishing undertaken by libraries is world leading in terms of new forms of publishing, reaching wide audiences and innovation in practice ..."