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Start Date
19-5-2016 1:15 PM
Keywords
Collaborative, California Digital Library, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, monograph, publishing, prototypes, mock-ups, Michigan Publishing, presentation, Nancy Maron, author
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Streamlining Monograph Production with Collaborative Knowledge Framework Tools
Justin Gonder, California Digital Library
University of California Press and California Digital Library (CDL) are currently in year two of a grant project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop an open source, end-to-end workflow and authoring tool aimed at streamlining activities related to the production of scholarly monographs.
At the 2015 LPC Forum, Catherine Mitchell, Director of Access and Publishing at CDL, described both the current state of scholarly monograph publication, as well as the need for tools to streamline both workflow and production activities in order to minimize costs and sustain these vital publishing ventures.
This year, in our continued effort to engage the larger publishing community in our development project, we will report on progress made toward development thus far, including a basic overview of requirements gathering findings, the formation of a cooperative development partnership with the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation, and a brief demonstration of current functional prototypes and static mock-ups. We will also describe opportunities for the publishing community to provide feedback and input as we move toward our initial release.
Building a Hosted Platform for Managing Monographic Source Materials and Born Digital Publications
Jonathan McGlone, University of Michigan
In April 2014, Michigan Publishing (home of the University of Michigan Press and a division of the University of Michigan Library) began development of a publishing platform to give authors, publishers, and presses a way to present and store monographic source materials connected to book publications. Working with press and library colleagues at Indiana, Minnesota, Northwestern, and Penn State universities, the platform will accept (ingest) and present the digital source materials that are typically included in humanities monographs using stable URLs or digital object identifiers (DOIs). The platform will support a structured publishing workflow in ways that institutional repositories and other solutions currently do not address.The end result will be a hosted platform offering a publishing workflow that includes ingestion, presentation and interactive capabilities. This solution will be offered to other library publishers and presses on a fee-for-service basis.
The project runs through March 2018 and is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Five university press projects will serve as case studies in a proof of concept to launch in the summer of 2016.This panel session will give an update of the project in terms of design, development, and defining services for the platform.
The Costs of Publishing OA Monographs: Results from a Study of 20 University Presses
Nancy Maron, BlueSky to BluePrint
What does it actually cost university presses to create a high-quality digital monograph today? The question was addressed in a Mellon-funded study in 2015, as researchers from Ithaka S+R gathered data from titles at each of 20 AAUP member presses to take a close look at not just the out-of-pocket expenses like hiring a freelance designer, but the staff costs and organizational overhead involved as well.
This study employed several novel approaches, including gathering time-estimates from staffers, and accounting for work spent over the lifetime of a title. In addition to the quantitative data, participating presses engaged in departmental roundtables to discuss current workflow processes, the elements of their work they feel are most vital to the publication process, and the types of books (and authors!) most likely to drive costs.
Nancy Maron, lead author of the study, will present the findings and share highlights from related studies that explored implications for university-funded OA publishing efforts. The results, recently published by Ithaka S+R, will be useful to all those already involved in or considering peer-reviewed monograph publishing.
Recommended Citation
Gonder, Justin; McGlone, Jonathan; and Maron, Nancy (2016). "Mellon Project Updates," Library Publishing Forum - Recorded Sessions. https://newprairiepress.org/lpforum/2016/concurrents/9
Mellon Project Updates
Streamlining Monograph Production with Collaborative Knowledge Framework Tools
Justin Gonder, California Digital Library
University of California Press and California Digital Library (CDL) are currently in year two of a grant project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop an open source, end-to-end workflow and authoring tool aimed at streamlining activities related to the production of scholarly monographs.
At the 2015 LPC Forum, Catherine Mitchell, Director of Access and Publishing at CDL, described both the current state of scholarly monograph publication, as well as the need for tools to streamline both workflow and production activities in order to minimize costs and sustain these vital publishing ventures.
This year, in our continued effort to engage the larger publishing community in our development project, we will report on progress made toward development thus far, including a basic overview of requirements gathering findings, the formation of a cooperative development partnership with the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation, and a brief demonstration of current functional prototypes and static mock-ups. We will also describe opportunities for the publishing community to provide feedback and input as we move toward our initial release.
Building a Hosted Platform for Managing Monographic Source Materials and Born Digital Publications
Jonathan McGlone, University of Michigan
In April 2014, Michigan Publishing (home of the University of Michigan Press and a division of the University of Michigan Library) began development of a publishing platform to give authors, publishers, and presses a way to present and store monographic source materials connected to book publications. Working with press and library colleagues at Indiana, Minnesota, Northwestern, and Penn State universities, the platform will accept (ingest) and present the digital source materials that are typically included in humanities monographs using stable URLs or digital object identifiers (DOIs). The platform will support a structured publishing workflow in ways that institutional repositories and other solutions currently do not address.The end result will be a hosted platform offering a publishing workflow that includes ingestion, presentation and interactive capabilities. This solution will be offered to other library publishers and presses on a fee-for-service basis.
The project runs through March 2018 and is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Five university press projects will serve as case studies in a proof of concept to launch in the summer of 2016.This panel session will give an update of the project in terms of design, development, and defining services for the platform.
The Costs of Publishing OA Monographs: Results from a Study of 20 University Presses
Nancy Maron, BlueSky to BluePrint
What does it actually cost university presses to create a high-quality digital monograph today? The question was addressed in a Mellon-funded study in 2015, as researchers from Ithaka S+R gathered data from titles at each of 20 AAUP member presses to take a close look at not just the out-of-pocket expenses like hiring a freelance designer, but the staff costs and organizational overhead involved as well.
This study employed several novel approaches, including gathering time-estimates from staffers, and accounting for work spent over the lifetime of a title. In addition to the quantitative data, participating presses engaged in departmental roundtables to discuss current workflow processes, the elements of their work they feel are most vital to the publication process, and the types of books (and authors!) most likely to drive costs.
Nancy Maron, lead author of the study, will present the findings and share highlights from related studies that explored implications for university-funded OA publishing efforts. The results, recently published by Ithaka S+R, will be useful to all those already involved in or considering peer-reviewed monograph publishing.
