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Building Content and Community:
Digital Publishing Servicesat the University of Kansas
Brian Rosenblum & Scott HanrathUniversity of KansasInformation Services
PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2009Vancouver, Canada
July 10, 2009
University of KansasDigital Publishing Services
http://kudiglib.ku.edu/epublishing.shtml
https://journals.ku.edu
Building our Program: First Steps
Survey Publishing Activity on Campus
Explore how we can support scholarly publishing
Evaluate Software Platforms
Identify Campus Partners
Some Journals at KU
New Roles for Libraries
Providing stewardship over locally produced scholarship and ensuring that it is accessible to an external, worldwide audience
Working directly with faculty and research units before and during the creation and pre-publication stage of research.
Digital Publishing Services provides support to the KU community for the design, management and distribution of online publications, including journals, conference proceedings, monographs, and other scholarly content.
We help scholars explore new and emerging publishing models in our changing scholarly communication environment, and help monitor and address campus concerns and questions about electronic publishing.
These services are intended to enable online publishing for campus publications, and help make their content available in a manner that promotes increased visibility and access, and ensures long-term stewardship of the materials.
Software Platforms
•Journals@KU (OJS)• http://journals.ku.edu
•KU ScholarWorks (D-Space)• http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu
•eXtensible Text Framework (XTF)Supports indexing, querying, display of XML documents (TEI and EAD)
http://etext.ku.edu
KU ScholarWorkshttp://kuscholarworks.ku.edu
JOURNALS AND SERIAL
PUBLICATIONS
American Studies* Biodiversity Informatics* Center for East Asian Studies
Publication Series Journal of Dramatic Theory
and Criticism* Kansas Working Papers in
Linguistics Latin American Theatre
Review* Slovene Linguistic Studies Social Thought and Research KU Paleontological
Contributions*=OJS journal
MONOGRAPHS
Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists
Cartobibliography of Maps in 18th Century British and American Geographical Works
Greetings from the Teklimakan: A Handbook of Modern Uyghur
Pontificalia: A Repertory of Latin Manuscript Pontificals and Benedictionals
Niccolò Perotti's Rudimenta Grammatices
Jesuatti Book of Remedies
Some statistics
Title # of Articles Downloads(June 2009)
American Studies 1111 14,546
Latin American Theater Review
1614 45,454
Biodiversity Informatics 22 982
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
612 8321
Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists
(monograph inKU ScholarWorks)
11,190 (Since Aug 2006)
Education, Outreach, Advocacy
Advise faculty in their roles as editors, instructors and authors
Shape campus discussions of NIH and other funding agency policies
Maintain scholarly communication website Organize workshops on copyright issues and digital scholarship
Advocate through university governance and administrative channels
** KU Open Access Policy ** (June 2009)https://documents.ku.edu/policies/governance/OpenAccess.htm
Technical Implementation
PlatformsRed Hat LinuxVirtual (OJS, XTF) and physical (DSpace) servers
StaffingRoles distributed across organizational and departmental boundaries
OJS at KU
Ideally: OJS is out-of-the box
In practice: some modifications requiredSiteJournals
But: new releases make OJS increasingly configurableUpgrades via vendor tags in our CVS repository
Importing Process
Most of our journals have significant archives of back issues Import in chunks via web interface (2-4 years
worth or < 100 articles at a time) Small tools
XSL to select chunks for master XML and add location of files
XSL “diagnostics” Clean up scripts to clear uploads dir Wanted: a way to package up and move an entire
journal from one OJS instance to another
Some next steps…
Establishing workflows and policies, organizational funding to sustain program
Improve OJS training
Editorial advisory board meeting
Host an “editors’ forum” in September
Expand website with more resources on publishing issues
Seek to participate in info literacy and educational opportunities on campus.
KU Scholar Serviceshttp://scholarservices.ku.edu
Thank you!
Questions?
Brian Rosenblum
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Scott Hanrath
Senior Programmer, Technical Lead
