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Welcome to the Campus-based Publishing Resource Center

 

Welcome! This site provides information for libraries, presses, and other academic units interested in launching and maintaining campus-based publishing partnerships. The resource is maintained by an editorial board representing library and university press staff actively engaged in creating and managing publishing partnerships. It reflects their practical experience and provides information on current developments, as well as guidance on best practices.

We encourage your participation and contributions to help build this resource. To receive updates as the site grows, send us your email address.

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November 1, 2011
Publishing Services a Major Growth Area for Academic Libraries, Suggests New Research Report
Publishing services provided by libraries are expanding and professionalizing, suggests a new report released for comment today by SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, on behalf of a team of researchers from the libraries of Purdue University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Utah. The report is the result of a year-long study of library publishing services made possible by a collaborative planning grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), with additional support from Berkeley Electronic Press and Microsoft Research.

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Campus-based publishing partnerships: A guide to critical issues

The SPARC guide, by Raym Crow, helps libraries, presses, and academic units to define effective partnerships capable of supporting innovative approaches to campus-based publishing.

Open-access journal publishing resource index

This section offers sample partnership support documentation, such as project proposals and other initial planning documents, feasibility and sustainability plans, rights agreements and contracts, and other support documents. We encourage publishing partnerships to contribute the plans they create for their projects.

SPARC is pleased to host an open discussion of the “Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success” research report. The final report, incorporating comments received, will be released at this URL and as a download in 2012.

Bibliography & resource list

This page provides a list of resources relevant to defining, launching, and maintaining a campus-based publishing partnership. It includes resources on strategic planning, business planning, product development, and collaboration issues. We invite contributions to expand the bibliography, especially primary research papers on collaboration issues (for example, local faculty needs studies and other research).

 

 

Online discussion forum

LIBPRESS is a listserv to facilitate discussion among academic libraries and presses about the opportunities and challenges of collaborative digital publishing projects and models. To subscribe, visit http://listserv.ucop.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A0=LIBPRESS-L.

Index of collaborative initiatives

The Scholarly Communication Program, based at Columbia University Libraries/Information Services' Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, hosts an index of campus-based publishing partnerships on behalf of this Resource Center.  The index is a growing resource, allowing users to learn how libraries and presses are currently collaborating. The index employs framework and data from "Campus-based publishing partnerships: A guide to critical issues" by Raym Crow.

Case studies

This section features case studies describing established and evolving partnerships. We invite publishing partnerships to submit descriptions of their own initiatives that illustrate specific aspects of partnering (for example, communication processes, financial arrangements, management and governance structures, etc.).