CANADIAN UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING IN A DIGITAL AGE: A Symposium
Case Studies in New Models of Collaboration:
CANADA’S UNIVERSITY
LIBRARIES
Carole Moore
Chief Librarian, University of Toronto
March 21, 2010
Context
2007 ITHAKA Report recommended:
Universities take a more active role in publishing
Develop effective strategies for scholarly communications
A transformative strategy would be a powerful service and
marketing platform to serve as a catalyst for collaboration and
shared capital investment in university based publishing, possibly
through JSTOR.
Invited discussion.
2008 UBC Scholarly Communications Roundtable
To build foundations for a new dialogue among stakeholders
“While the world of the journal has already been transformed, that of
the scholarly book is still in the early stages of change, and the path
ahead is unclear.”
UBC discussions raised questions:
1.
How do we participate effectively in today’s and tomorrow’s
communication systems to make scholarship more accessible?
2.
How can we market the value of university scholarship?
3.
How do we maintain the critical elements of assessment and
preservation of scholarship?
4.
With the current business model threatened, what will replace it?
5.
How can we avoid unintended consequences as we face external
pressures for change?
What has happened since then?
Great deal of discussion and among stakeholders in North America:
Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing –
Association of Research Libraries, 2008
The University’s Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship – Association of
American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, Coalition for Networked
Information, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, 2009
Digital Publishing in the AAUP Community, Survey Report – Association of American
University Presses, 2009-2010
Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies Across the
Federal Government – U.S. Office of Science and Technology, 2009-2010
Scholarly Publishing Roundtable Report – January 2010
Open Journal Systems Survey – Edgar & Willinsky 2010
Economic implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models – JISC, 2009
Broad public policy issues considered by governments, granting
agencies, academy
Current Scholarship Program launched by JSTOR and University of
California Press in 2009 to make current and historical scholarly
content available on a single, integrated platform starting 2011.
By March 2010 with U of Chicago Press, total of 150 journals.
Developments in Canada: Collaborative
Initiatives in University Libraries
Journal transformation continuing
Several important projects involving ebooks and other formats
Examples:
Synergies
Open Access
Other new business model experiments
Synergies
Open Access Initiatives
Institutional Repositories
Dissertations, articles, some books, data, unpublished material
Subject Repositories – PubMed Central Canada, CISTI, CIHR, NLM
Long term preservation
Funds to support author fees
Collaborative platforms for integrated access
CARL Open Archives Metadata Harvester
Canadiana.org
Collaboration with Presses
Book platforms
New media experiments
Print on demand
Scholars Portal Books
Issues being explored:
Peer review critical – can it be improved?
Preservation – long term archiving crucial
Role of research libraries
Cost – sustainable economic models
Age of Attention – Integrated platform/Multiple channels
Tim O’Reilly – enemy of the author is obscurity
Conclusion
Tremendous opportunities in the transformation of publishing
Creative ideas to improve visibility of Canadian university research
Thank you!
carole.moore@utoronto.ca