Open Access publishing at Pitt: alignment with local and global OA policies

Timothy S. DeliyannidesDirector, Office of Scholarly Communication and PublishingUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh

Library Publishing Forum 2014Kansas City, MO, March 6, 2014

Overview

Open Access program aligned with institutional mission

Journal publishing program – central to advocacy for Open Access

Challenges: – Maintaining quality – Promoting reuse rights

Intentional alignment with partners whose mission and policies support our goals

Open Access: key to strategic plan for Innovation in Scholarly Communication

Support researchers in – efficient knowledge production– rapid dissemination of new research– open access to scholarly information

Build collaborative partnershipsaround the world

Improve the production and sharing of scholarly research

Support innovative publishing services

Establish trusted repositories for the research output of the University

A Comprehensive Program for OA

Support for Gold Open Access: – Publishing journals, books and conference proceedings– Open Access Author Fee Fund; COPE

Support for Green Open Access:– 6 global, subject-based repositories– Local institutional repository and OA Mandate

Learning and teaching about OA

Advocacy and support for our OA partners

Measuring and marking success

Why become a Publisher?

Incentivize Open Access

Transform the subscription pricing system that punishes libraries and scholars

Provide services that scholars understand, need and value

Deepen our understanding of scholarly communications issues

OA publishing/dissemination activities

Institutional repository (EPrints)

6 global subject-based author self-archiving repositories (EPrints)

Conference proceedings (PKP OCS)

Monographs – new, e-only books (PKP OMP)

OA digital editions of Pitt Press backlist titles

Pennsylvania Digital Library (PKP Open Harvester)

ULS E-Journal Publishinghttp://www.library.pitt.edu/e-journals

35 scholarly journals published by ULS

45 additional journals hosted by ULS (through Scholarly Exchange® hosting service)

Most are Open Access (standard license: CC BY)

Based on PKP Open Journal Systems (OJS)

Editorial teams are located around the world

Six journals have multilingual content

Production hosting environment with 24/7 support

ISSN registration

Assignment of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)

Consultation on editorial workflow

Advice on best practices in e-publishing

Graphic design services

Custom article template design

Web-based training for editorial staff

Base package services

Hosting of back issues

Registration with abstracting and indexing services

Web site usage statistics

Marketing and promotion

Archiving and preservation (LOCKSS)

Print on demand (Espresso Book Machine)

Altmetrics at article level (Plum Analytics)

Base package services (continued)

Journal Publishing Strategies

Maintain quality and academic integrity

Choose partners carefully

Rely on self-sufficient editors

Work smart, not hard

Keep costs low

Ongoing monitoring/evaluation of academic quality

Ensuring and Maintaining Quality

Journal Proposal Form

Selection criteria

Publications Advisory Board– Advises on major policy decisions– Reviews journal proposals

Periodic audits of journal content and peer review processes

Assessment of research impact

Innovation in journal publishing

Open Peer review– Dialogic Pedagogy: http://dpj.pitt.edu– Dual OJS sites– simultaneous open and traditional peer review

Harvard Dataverse integration– Research data deposited along with manuscript submission– Based on OJS plugin

Alternative metrics (PlumX)– Article-level altmetrics on every article abstract page

Measuring success: altmetrics

Aggregates dozens of traditional and new measures

article-level altmetrics widget imbedded in OJS journals and Eprints repositories

Altmetrics pilot project (PlumX by Plum Analytics)

Scholarly Exchange®

http://www.scholarlyexchange.org

45 additional Open Access journals

Acquired by the ULS in 2012

Hosting service only

ULS is NOT the publisher and does not provide full publishing services

Benefits small journals in low-resource settings

Low-barrier entry to OA publishing

Sustaining our publishing program

Since 2012, we charge fees for services to publishing partners

We incentivize Open Access through subsidies

We subsidize Pitt publications

Pitt student publications are still free!

Partners may charge APCs; no examples yet

Alignments to support OA publishing

Founding member of Library Publishing Coalition

Member, Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE)

Major Development Partner for Public Knowledge Project (PKP)

Member, Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)

Member, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

OASPA’s mission

Exchange Information

Set Standards– uniform definition of OA publishing – best practices for OA scholarly communications– ethical standards

Advance OA business & process models

Advocate for Gold OA

Educate the research community and public on OA

Promote Innovation

How does membership benefit us as a library publisher?

STANDARDS help maintain and defend quality

Provide tools for advocacy and teaching about OA

Forum for discussion of key issues and trends

Keeps us connected with current information

Inspires confidence in potential publishing partners

OASPA Code of Conduct

Maintain rigorous peer review process for published content

Editorial boards with recognized experts

Transparency for:– Peer review process and policies– Author fees and policies (if any)– Author copyright/licensing policies– Author submission instructions

OASPA Membership Criteria

At least one gold OA journal with original research

Articles must be peer-reviewed

No reader registration required to access content

OA policy equivalent to CC BY, however use of the CC BY-NC license also permitted

Desirable: DOIs for articles, indexing/discoverability, COPE membership, archiving policy

Compliance with OASPA Code of Conduct

Membership led to changes for us

clarified our policies

improved our transparency

improved our Web site

adopted well-articulated code of conduct

changed to more open definition of OA, encouraging downstream reuse

CC BY - our standard license

Renegotiated with all publishing partners in 2012

Successfully converted more than half

20 journals now use CC BY

Pushback in some disciplines

All new journals since the change are CC BY

Our three subscription-based journals remain at CC BY-NC-ND

Coming soon: DOAJ Seal criteria archival arrangement with an external party

permanent identifiers (handles, DOIs, etc) for articles

article level metadata provided to DOAJ

machine-readable licensing information embedded in article level metadata

allow reuse and remixing of its content in accordance with a CC-BY or CC-BY-NC license

deposit policy registered in a deposit policy directory (like SHERPA/RoMEO)

http://www.library.pitt.edu/e-journals