This is a DRAFT charter to be submitted to STIM for approval
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Note: All of the content below should be considered in DRAFT. This can be finalized prior to STIM approval or as the first task of the IG.
Domain
Several CSU institutions have expressed interest creating journals through establishing a centrally supported journal publishing platform. Additionally, some institutions are already publishing through locally maintained or hosted platforms. This interest group aims to identify the best tool(s) to offer, best-practices for publishing workflows, and a roadmap for both getting a new journal off the ground and migrate existing journals to a new platform when necessary.
Shared Needs and Requirement
Interest group participants should have some experience setting up a journal, be in the process of setting up a journal, or in the initial phases of investigating publishing.
Use Cases
Setting up a new journal
Moving an existing journal from one platform to another (or from one campus to another)
Defining publishing roles
Deliverables & Timeline
- Recommendations for an open source publishing platform (i.e. OJS - Open Journal System)
- Documentation for setting up a journal
- Assisting with planning the CSU IR meeting
- Best practices for managing journal workflows
- Draft charge for a publishing working group
The target for these deliverables should be the LibIT/ScholarWorks meeting during the Summer of 2018. Library publishing services are becoming more widespread and provide institutions an opportunity to participate meaningfully in the development and dissemination of open access scholarly communication. This group endeavors to initiate a program for system-wide publishing support through the identification of a suite of practical, open source platforms and tools, and best-practices and workflows for support services for programs including open access online journals, online exhibitions, and other forms of digital scholarship as yet to be defined.
Shared Needs and Requirements
Interest group participants should have an interest in the creation and maintenance of digital scholarship and baseline knowledge of trends and developments in online publication platforms. Additionally, every interested campus should
- Use and develop, when possible, the Open Journal Systems test instance provided and supported by the Chancellor’s Office
- Compile existing digital publishing documentation for campus education around supported platforms
- Establish and share workflow for ingest of online journals and other digital scholarship into the local IR
- Ideally, provide support for indexing and persistence of journals and digital scholarship built on platforms other than OJS
The shared needs of this group will, by nature of the content, evolve and the working group will endeavor to respond to the needs of our campus communities through the evaluation and recommendation of appropriate open source platforms and tools.
Use Cases
- Support for the creation of online, peer-reviewed, open access faculty journals
- Support for the creation of online, peer-reviewed, open access student journals
- Support for the creation of course or co-curricular online exhibits
- Support for some forms of digital scholarship
Deliverables and Timeline
- Conduct a CSU-wide survey to identify current publishing programs and practices, and to learn about aspirational projects
- Identify a suite of recommended open source platforms, tools, and support guidelines. The interest group will share our findings with the ScholarWorks community, with the hope of assisting additional CSU libraries to support online journals and other forms of digital scholarship
- Create documentation for workflow processes and best practices for journal publishing within the CSU.
Participating
Facilitator: Dana Ospina,
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Dominguez Hills
Participating Institutions/Members
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(This should be no less
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that 3
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and no more than 6 institutions)
- Mark Bilby, Fullerton
- April Gilbert, San Jose
- Ryan Rush, Pomona
- Rita Premo, Sonoma
- Marco Ruiz , Channel Islands
- Kyle Morgan, Humboldt