Library as Scholarly Publishing Partner: Keys to Success

Many academic libraries are looking at new ways to add value when they deliver services to faculty, and one potential area where the library can provide new services is in partnering with academic staff to support the dissemination of faculty research. Librarians have traditionally helped faculty re...

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Main Authors: McIntyre, Gordon, Chan, Janice, Gross, Julia
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80181
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Chan, Janice
Gross, Julia
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Gross, Julia
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description Many academic libraries are looking at new ways to add value when they deliver services to faculty, and one potential area where the library can provide new services is in partnering with academic staff to support the dissemination of faculty research. Librarians have traditionally helped faculty researchers at the beginning of the research cycle, with the discovery and delivery of information sources. However, they are now playing a role at the end of the research cycle, providing services that support scholarly publishing. This paper examines library participation in faculty-led publishing ventures. In particular, it explores the value that smaller research libraries can provide to faculty editors through journal hosting, which will be analysed through an examination of the successful migration of the Australian Journal of Teacher Education, a faculty-administered journal at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, to the University’s institutional repository. This transition provided library staff members at Edith Cowan University opportunities to develop new knowledge and skills in journal publishing, while meeting the journal’s need for a better way to manage a growing influx of article submissions. The resultant faculty-library partnership enabled more effective management of the journal and has contributed to its growing success. The evaluative framework developed to enable assessment of the success of this journal’s transition can help other libraries demonstrate the success of their own journal hosting ventures.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-801812021-01-05T08:07:08Z Library as Scholarly Publishing Partner: Keys to Success McIntyre, Gordon Chan, Janice Gross, Julia Many academic libraries are looking at new ways to add value when they deliver services to faculty, and one potential area where the library can provide new services is in partnering with academic staff to support the dissemination of faculty research. Librarians have traditionally helped faculty researchers at the beginning of the research cycle, with the discovery and delivery of information sources. However, they are now playing a role at the end of the research cycle, providing services that support scholarly publishing. This paper examines library participation in faculty-led publishing ventures. In particular, it explores the value that smaller research libraries can provide to faculty editors through journal hosting, which will be analysed through an examination of the successful migration of the Australian Journal of Teacher Education, a faculty-administered journal at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, to the University’s institutional repository. This transition provided library staff members at Edith Cowan University opportunities to develop new knowledge and skills in journal publishing, while meeting the journal’s need for a better way to manage a growing influx of article submissions. The resultant faculty-library partnership enabled more effective management of the journal and has contributed to its growing success. The evaluative framework developed to enable assessment of the success of this journal’s transition can help other libraries demonstrate the success of their own journal hosting ventures. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80181 10.7710/2162-3309.1091 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ fulltext
spellingShingle McIntyre, Gordon
Chan, Janice
Gross, Julia
Library as Scholarly Publishing Partner: Keys to Success
title Library as Scholarly Publishing Partner: Keys to Success
title_full Library as Scholarly Publishing Partner: Keys to Success
title_fullStr Library as Scholarly Publishing Partner: Keys to Success
title_full_unstemmed Library as Scholarly Publishing Partner: Keys to Success
title_short Library as Scholarly Publishing Partner: Keys to Success
title_sort library as scholarly publishing partner: keys to success
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80181