Towards new modes of
publishing and informationsharing among researchers
at Pitt and internationally
Timothy S. Deliyannides
Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing
and Head, Information Technology
University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
131st RCKC Colloquium, Research Center for Knowledge
Communities, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
March 1, 2016
THE OPEN SHARING OF SCHOLARLY RESEARCH:
A COMPREHENSIVE
PROGRAM
A Comprehensive Program for OA
 Support for Gold Open Access:
– Publishing journals, books, ETDs, conference proceedings
– Open Access Author Fee Fund; COPE
 Support for Green Open Access:
– 6 global, subject-based repositories
– Local institutional repository and OA Policy
 Learning and teaching about OA
 Measuring and marking research impact
 Advocacy and support for our OA partners
Strategic Goals of the ULS
Innovation in Scholarly Communication
 Support researchers in
– efficient knowledge production
– rapid dissemination of new research
– open access to scholarly information
 Build collaborative partnerships
around the world
 Improve the production and sharing of scholarly
research
 Support innovative publishing services
 Establish trusted repositories for the research output of
the University
OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS AND REPOSITORIES:
THE ULS
PUBLISHING PROGRAM
Author Self-archiving Repositories (Eprints)
 2001 PhilSci Archive
 2001 Electronic Theses & Dissertations
 2002 Archive of European Integration
 2003 Minority Health Archive
 2003 Aphasiology Archive
 2009 D-Scholarship@Pitt
(general Institutional Repository)
 2010 Industry Studies Working Papers
ULS E-Journal Publishing
 Rapid growth to 40 journals since 2007
 50 additional journals hosted by Scholarly Exchange
 Most are Open Access and electronic-only
 Based on PKP Open Journal Systems (OJS)
 Editorial teams are located around the world
 Six journals have multilingual content
Documents in Pitt repositories and journals
FY2000-FY2015
90,000
80,000
70,000
60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
FY2000 FY2001 FY2002 FY2003 FY2004 FY2005 FY2006 FY2007 FY2008 FY2009 FY2010 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015
Repository administration and
publishing: two different roles
 ‘Dissemination’ vs. ‘Publishing’
 Author self-archiving vs. editorial control
 Institutional promotion vs. unbiased selection
 The value proposition:
– Service to the institution
– Service to the profession
– Service to the world
Why become a Publisher?
 Provide services that scholars understand, need
and value
 Transform the unsustainable commercial
subscription pricing system
 Take direct action to support Open Access
 Deepen our understanding of scholarly
communications issues
 Take on new roles more relevant to researchers
Journal publishing goals
 Propel scholarship at the
University of Pittsburgh
 Extend service beyond the home
institution
 Save ‘at-risk’ journals that lack
the infrastructure or expertise to
convert to electronic
 Incentivize Open Access
Publishing worldwide
Journal Publishing Strategies
 Maintain quality and
academic integrity
 Choose partners carefully
 Rely on self-sufficient
editors
 Work smart, not hard
 Keep costs low
Journal publishing services:
• Hardware and software hosting services
• Advice on best practices in e-publishing
• Web-based training for editorial staff
• Graphic design services
• ISSN Registration
• Assignment of DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers)
• Improve discovery through abstracting and indexing
• Digital preservation through LOCKSS
• Demonstrate impact through alternative metrics
Ensuring and Maintaining Quality
 Selection criteria
 Publications Advisory Board
– Advises on major policy decisions
– Reviews journal proposals
 Ongoing review of editorial practices
 Assessment of research impact
Selection Criteria
 Original scholarly content
 Rigorous blind review process
 Open call for papers
 Commitment to Open Access for
content (CC BY 4.0 License)
 Editorial Board of internationally
recognized scholars
 Adherence to best practices
Scholarly Exchange® Hosting Service
 http://www.scholarlyexchange.org
 Approximately 55 additional Open Access journals
 Acquired by the ULS on August 1, 2012
 Hosting service only
 ULS is NOT the publisher and does not provide
publishing services
 Less rigorous selection process
Sustaining Our Publishing Program
 Since July 1, 2012, we charge fees for services
to all new publishing partners
 Cost is only $1,000 USD per year
 Partial cost recovery only
 We incentivize Open Access by subsidizing the
costs
 Pitt publications receive a 50% discount
THE OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION & PUBLISHING
LEARNING AND TEACHING
ABOUT OPEN ACCESS
Learning and teaching about OA
 Pitt Open Access Web site (openaccess.pitt.edu)
 Lunch and learn series for liaison librarians
– Monthly series of informal talks
– 24 topics on wide range of Open Access & scholarly
communications issues
– Inform ourselves and strategize how we can best talk to our
patrons about the issues
 Outreach to the university community
– Faculty and student orientations
– Elevator talks
– Open Access Week activities
OSCP Consulting Services
 Copyright law
 Fair use
 Public performance rights
 Authors’ rights
 Best practices for publishing
 Advice on sharing work and demonstrating impact
 Academic integrity & publishing ethics
SUPPORTING FACULTY IN PUBLISHING VIA OPEN ACCESS
THE OPEN ACCESS AUTHOR
FEE FUND
The Open Access Author Fee Fund
 A program that pays publishing fees on behalf of
authors at Pitt who wish to publish in Open Access
journals
 Open to faculty, graduate students, undergraduate
students, staff & post-doc researchers
BUT:
 Only eligible authors are awarded funding
 Only eligible journals are covered
Why do authors need funding for OA
publishing?
 Open Access journals cannot rely on subscription
revenues
 Many OA journals are funded through article
processing charges (APCs)
 APCs are more common in STEM journals
 The burden is on the author to find funding
(personal funds, grant funds, institutional funding)
What is the library’s role?
 Incentivize authors to publish in OA journals
 Encourage good choices for OA publishing
– Use standards to screen for quality
– Support fair business models for OA (no hybrid OA)
 Support the efforts of OA publishers
 Experiment with a sustainable cost model for OA
 Collaborate with other academic libraries to help
transform the publishing landscape
MEASURING THE IMPACT OF RESEARCH:
ALTERNATIVE METRICS
Measuring scholarly impact
 Increasingly, scholars work on the Web
 Growing pressure from institutions and funders to
demonstrate impact and return on investment
 Altmetrics combine traditional impact measures
(citation counts) with non-traditional measures:
– online references in gray literature
– online links to published and unpublished works
– measures of impact through social networking
Why Altmetrics?
 More comprehensive
– Traditional citations PLUS usage, social media
 Covers impact of online behavior
– scholars increasingly work online
 Measures impact immediately
– citation counts take years to appear in literature
Plum Analytics at Pitt
http://plu.mx/pitt
 Pitt was PlumX’s first partner (2012)
 Integrated with IR, 4 subject
repositories and 37 journals
 Aggregates dozens of metrics:
– Scopus, CrossRef, PubMed
– Central, USPTO
– Twitter, Facebook
– Wikipedia
– Mendeley
SUPPORTING THE OPEN ACCESS MOVEMENT
ADVOCACY FOR OPEN
ACCESS PUBLISHING
Advocacy for OA publishing
 Founding member of the Library
Publishing Coalition
 Member of Compact for Open-Access
Publishing Equity (COPE)
 Major Development Partner for Public
Knowledge Project (PKP)
 First library publisher in North America to
join the Open Access Scholarly Publishers
Association (OASPA)
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http://www.library.pitt.edu/OSCP/
Please contact me with questions or comments
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