Digital Digital Electronic Library Library Publishing: Trends and Innovations in the 21st Century

• Both public and academic libraries are invested in the creation and distribution of information and digital content. They have morphed from keepers of content into content creators and curators, and seek best practices and efficient workflows with emerging publishing platforms and services. The Library Publishing Toolkit looks at the broad and varied landscape of library publishing through discussions, case studies, and shared resources. From supporting writers and authors in the public library setting to hosting open access journals and books, this collection examines opportunities for libraries to leverage their position and resources to create and provide access to content.The Library Publishing Toolkit is a project funded partially by Bibliographic Databases and Interlibrary Resources Sharing Program funds which are administered and supported by the Rochester Regional Library Council. The toolkit is a united effort between Milne Library at SUNY Geneseo and the Monroe County Library System to identify trends in library publishing, seek out best practices to implement and support such programs, and share the best tools and resources. Our goals include to: Develop strategies libraries can use to identify types of publishing services and content that can be created and curated by libraries.

• Assess trends in digital content creation and publishing that can be useful in libraries and suggesting potential future projects.

• Identify efficient workflows for distributing content for free online and with potential for some cost-recovery in print on demand markets.

We support a variety of software platforms to publish content in different formats, and can assist with moving traditional print journal and monograph content to an online environment, as well as with publishing "born-digital" scholarship designed specifically for online publication. We also offer tools to help manage and streamline the production and editorial work involved in producing scholarly journals.

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KU ScholarWorks is a digital repository for scholarly work created by the faculty, staff and students of the University of Kansas. KU ScholarWorks makes important research available to a wider audience and helps assure its long-term preservation.

Most libraries are translating traditional library services into digital ones by providing storage and tools for discovering scholarship that is still largely shaped and processed by research faculty. Some library/university collaborations are beginning to push the envelope of their services and becoming involved in scholarly communication activities such as: Facilitating author/publisher rights determination, assembling editorial boards for newly formed journals, developing alternative peer review mechanisms, experimenting with alternative scholarly products such as remix and reuse of textbook-like content, providing integral support in academic conference management (including proceeding publication) through systems such as the Open Conference System, and developing systems for dataset archive and publication.

Journals are the most common type of publication in library programs. Libraries can offer small scholarly and scientific societies an alternative to contracting with large commercial publishers.There are also a growing number of partnerships between university libraries and presses, as university presses seek to provide a way for scholars to publish the traditional monograph while facing budget pressures and a reduced market for the narrowly focused monograph still required for tenure and promotion. There are innovative ways of achieving these partnerships, many of which cross traditional boundaries and go far beyond monographs.

Gleeson Library staff collaborate with departments and scholars across the university to facilitate publication of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). We also digitize USF print publications, migrate existing content to the USF Scholarship Repository, and publish work online. We would be happy to consult with you regarding your digital publishing needs.

The Library Publishing Forum is an annual conference bringing together representatives from libraries engaged in (or considering) publishing initiatives to define and address major questions and challenges; to identify and document collaborative opportunities; and to strengthen and promote this community of practice. The Forum includes representatives from a broad, international spectrum of academic library backgrounds, as well as groups that collaborate with libraries to publish scholarly works, including publishing vendors, university presses, and scholars. The Forum is sponsored by the Library Publishing Coalition, but you do not need to be a member of the LPC to attend.

Our team offers workshops, tutorials, and consultations to increase awareness, proficiency and adoption of digital technologies that are essential to scholarly communication, publishing, research collaboration, data management, & bibliometrics.

Our goal is to provide expert services and support to the Harvard community in efforts that foster participation in Open Science initiatives, and share Harvard's scholarly outputs and unique digital collections with researchers throughout the world.

You can think of digital scholarship as encompassing scholarly activities that make heavy use of digital tools in multiple realms and stages of the research process, including publishing, data management, teaching, pedagogy, and more. Our team is ready to collaborate you with finding innovative and creative ways to incorporate digital tools into your workflows, intentionally making your research open and accessible, and more effectively demonstrating the impact of your work.

DLPS is currently developing new services to support digital scholarship and digital projects. If you have a digital project or research needs related to digital scholarship, please contact us for a consultation. We can consult and provide referrals for various services.

Some publishers are worried that the ease of borrowing a digital book from a library is hurting sales and have decided to limit how and when libraries can access digital books. Now, libraries in Massachusetts and nationwide are vowing to fight back. They say the practices are not just unfair and unethical, but they might be illegal.

That means when a new release hits bookstores, a library is permitted to purchase one digital copy, but then they must wait until two months have passed before purchasing more copies. This is true regardless of the size of the library. For the first two months, Boston Public Library and New York Public Library each get one copy of the most recent best-sellers.

She argued that publishers have the wrong target. Libraries have played a critical role in introducing the public to digital books, she argues, and creating buzz about new releases. We embraced the technology, we showed people how to use it, we made it accessible," Green said.

Others have voiced this theory, too. Bibliotheca, which works with libraries on various projects including a digital content app, wrote a letter arguing Amazon is behind publishers changing their policies. Bibliotheca urged libraries to stop sharing their data with Amazon.

So, as libraries figure out what to do, some library systems are boycotting Macmillan. A petition has garnered more than 230,000 signatures. But Green said she is most hopeful about a legal strategy.

D-Scribe Digital Publishing is an open access electronic publishing program of the University Library System (ULS) of the University of Pittsburgh. It comprises over 100 thematic collections that together contain over 100,000 digital objects. This content, most of which is available through open access, includes both digitized versions of materials from the collections of the University of Pittsburgh and other local institutions as well as original 'born-electronic' content actively contributed by scholars worldwide.[1][2] D-Scribe includes such items as photographs, maps, books, journal articles, dissertations, government documents, and technical reports, along with over 745 previously out-of-print titles published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.[3][4][5] The digital publishing efforts of the University Library System began in 1998[6] and have won praise for their innovation from the leadership at the Association of Research Libraries and peer institutions.[7]

The University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh has created various digital collections through its D-Scribe Digital Publishing program and has made them available to the public via the Internet. The following is a selection of the more prominent or larger collections available online.

A digitized repository and archive of material dealing with European integration that focuses on the normalization of relations of Eastern and Western Europe following the Cold War and the integration movements in West Europe that resulted in the European Community.[10] Nearly 30 universities throughout Europe and America contribute content to the AEI.[11] The AEI collects both independently produced research materials and official European Community/European Union documents.[12] Many of the digitized documents in the AEI are drawn from the University Library System's collection of EU documents received in 2007 when the library of the Delegation of the European Commission to the US in Washington, D.C. was donated to the University of Pittsburgh.[13][14]

This digital collection includes digitized historical resources on the history of Western Pennsylvania including texts, videos, maps, images, census records, and archival finding aids.[21] Included are over 25,000 images from multiple photographic collections that originated from a digitization project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and completed in 2004.[22] The presentation represents a collaboration between Pittsburgh-area libraries, museums, and universities and includes historic material derived from those held by the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh; the Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center; Chatham University Archives; Oakmont Carnegie Library; Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation; and Point Park University Archives.[23][24] 2ff7e9595c