2021-09-21 Publishing Interest Group Agenda and Meeting Notes

Intro Song

• https://youtu.be/s_-QRNVbNM8

Announcements

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Scholastica Presentation at 11:15am

Erin from Scholastica (ealonso@scholasticahq.com)

“Empower journal providers” - a platform, which is modular for three products:

1. Peer Review

2. Typesetting

3. Open Journal Accessing

Open

Open

Q&As:

1. Print modes? - just send the digital PDF, and then there would be a separate send to the printers, if that’s what you wanted.

2. $10/submission - authors create an account, and it’s by the author’s submission.

3. Customizable metadata? - not yet. (Local campus related, additional files, potentially would be necessary. Department can be asked for, but must be asked.)

4. Set up of submissions for example, would be set up by tech folks? Or personal 1:1s. - chores, some will be in settings.

5. Faculty journal, for peer review options with integration with OJS? - not seamless right now.

6. What kind of materials? Law reviews? - 600/1100 are law reviews. (Law libraries are well funded, so each submission was covered. Standard.)
   
   
   (A model for 3rd party vendor for publishing ideas? Solution is APCs for authors, usually because of the costs.)

From former conversations:

1. Here is a video with additional details about Scholastica and more of an in-depth look at the back end of the platform.

2. Attached are our two PDF templates.

3. Examples of journals hosted on Scholastica:

   • Spartan Medical Research Journal

   • RTI Press

   • Journal of Health Economics and Outcomes Research
     
     

1. You can watch a 1-minute video about Scholastica peer review platform here and a 3 -minute video about our publishing and typesetting platform here

2. Open Access Publishing

    on Scholastica includes:

   1. Responsive design that works across all devices: mobile, tablets, and desktop

   2. Google Scholar inclusion

   3. Metadata included to help with discoverability

   4. Blogging available to help journals build an online profile

   5. Publishing analytics to track journals most viewed and downloaded articles, where your readers are coming from, etc.

3. Scholastica's Typesetting Service

    includes:

   1. Beautiful HTML + PDF articles + XML (for indexing)

   2. Embedded videos & equations are supported

   3. 1 week turnaround time

   4. View an example article here

4. Also, you might be interested in some of the built in analytics for peer review and OA publishing.

Pricing:

• Peer review submission platform - $10 USD per new submission with a yearly fee of $250 USD. You can learn more about pricing at https://scholasticahq.com/pricing

• Open Access Publishing - $99 USD a month billed annually ($1188 USD)

  • Examples: 

    • Survey Practice

    • Internet Mathematics

    • Houston Law Review

    • The Open Journal of Astrophysics

    • Bond Law Review

• Typesetting - $5 per 500 words and $7 per table/figure

Website Demo

Facilitators

• https://spaces.calstate.edu/

  • Thoughts/feedback so far?

    • Documentation vs. Projects (Creative Commons licensing - local campus specific documentation, within the spotlight on models/staging area)

      • General place for links out

      • Support people for OJS contact list is on OJS.

    • Environmental Scan; local contacts for network for the ‘digital projects.'

    • COLD approval is in October potential, to use the current library site.

Open Access Documentation

Facilitators

• What more documentation is of interest? What materials do people want to work on/need to have as support materials?

• https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/ might be a model (get faculty involved in transformative agreements - ….!

  • Documentation for transformative agreements: for who? “Start a Committee to start Discussing This.” For faculty education.)

  • Always find this page first before the CSU’s material.

  • Chancellors office material, can be a place for this information to live.

  • However, the UCs have a lot of control over publishing, and not necessarily can be generalized for the CSUs.

• Collaboration of local documentation: libguides for scholcomm material. (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18jcHv9M11xVUsXIVbNeNC_OdNOe03My0NtABQYAAkcY/edit#gid=0 ) to be mashed together.

• Maybe look at both links and then see what the most pertinent information is.