creation and distribution of an open-access e-journal
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Creation and distribution of an open-access e-journalTRANSCRIPT
Creation and Distribution of
an Open Access e-Journal
Dr. Stacy Creel
Dr. Teresa S. [email protected]
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Digital Commons2
1. Planned for an e-newsletter
2. Expanded to an e-journal
3. SLIS Connecting Connecting people,
technology, libraries, history & learning
‘to share news, info, and research.… through selected faculty publications, student publications, refereed papers, columns’
aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting/
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Literature: Print to Digital
‘The transformation from print to digital media for scientific communication, driven in part by the growth of the Internet and the tremendous explosion in the amount of information now available to everybody, is creating fundamental changes in institutions such as publishers, libraries, and universities’ (Davidson, 2005)
‘Web has changed the way academics share, promote, and locate information’ (Calise et al., 2010)
‘In the use of electronic journals by academics, convenience, including free access, is important’ (Tenopir & Wolverton, 2005)
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Bepress Founded in 1999 because….
‘academic journals were plagued by slow turnaround times, limited access, and unreasonable prices’(bepress.com )
Developed online editorial management system that supports peer-review process
Developed Digital Commons for institutional repositories to... ‘support faculty in creating and editing sustainable
scholarly journals, as well as a variety of other publishing initiatives like e-only press imprints, conference proceedings, student research, and more’ (bepress.com)
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Bepress (cont’d)
License w/Digital Commons entitles institution to: Setup, training, technical support, upgrades, hosting 5 free e-journals, includes set-up design
Digital Commons Includes EdiKit™ professional-grade ,
peer-review/editorial management system
Supports social networking: Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Pinterest, RSS, etc.
Tracks usage data including page views and downloads by geographic location
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SLIS Connecting7
First e-journal in USM Aquila Digital Community 1st issue – February 2012
Most downloaded Aquila e-journal (Online Journal of Health Ethics is second)
Top Digital Commons e-journal in archival science
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Downloads
How many items have been downloaded since spring 2012?
24,723 downloads
Which items were downloaded most?
‘An Analysis of Little Red Riding Hood Storybooks in the de Grummond Collection’ by Cheryl Pittman, (Issue 2), 4,395 downloads (18%)
‘A Content Analysis of Cinderella Illustrated StorybooksHoused in the de Grummond Collection’ by Kimberly Smith (Issue 1), 3,354 downloads (14%)
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SLIS Connecting is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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ISSN: 2330-2917
International Standard Serial Number
8-digit code used to identify newspapers, journals, magazines and periodicals of all kinds (worldwide) and on all media–print and electronic.
http://www.issn.org/services/requesting-an-issn/
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http://www.issn.org/understanding-the-issn/what-is-an-issn/#
Increase the visibility
Increase ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals
Comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals
Standard of quality to guarantee the content
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Open Access Journal: right to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles"
Quality Control: peer-review or editorial quality control
Research Journal: report primary results or overviews of research
Periodical: regular interval serial without end
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56 questions from the simple (like your name) to more complex (like digital archiving policy)
Can take 3 to 6 months
Journal's ISSN(s) number(s), country of publisher, and title registered at issn.org matches the application
An editorial board with identifiable members (plus their contacts).
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Full text of articles is free and immediately available upon publication (no embargo)
Open Access policy is clearly stated and easily findable on Web site
Uses some form of peer review Is open access according to BOAI definition
(http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/)
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My Account/Author Dashboard
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Google Analytics: Page Views20
According to Google Analytics, how many page views have there been for SLIS Connecting and what was the geographic distribution within the U.S. and abroad?
From first issue in February 2012 through October 2014, there were 13,281 page views in Google
Most, 11,000 (83%), were from within US
Greatest number in SE region, then NE, SW, NW
Spatial pattern similar to alumni location
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Google Page Views 2012 - 2014
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Page Views outside U.S.
What was the geographic distribution of page views internationally, outside the U.S.?
2,201 (Google) page views in 101 countries
Top 7 countries: Iran (283), UK (232), Canada (216), Nigeria (134), India (127), Australia (117), China (82)
Greatest number to least by continent: North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, South America
Spatial pattern indicates much wider audience than SLIS students and alums
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Page View Locations outside U.S. (Google Maps, 2014)
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Discussion Patterns in U.S. similar to alumni distribution
Unexpected international reach: Open-access Indexed in Google and Google Scholar Announcements of new issues posted on listservs,
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Mix of refereed student research, essays, and columns
with news of SLIS courses, faculty, alums, students
Great tool for recruitment, outreach to students and alums
Promotes connectivity and community-building among SLIS faculty, students, alums.
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References25
Davidson, L.A. (2005). The end of print: Digitization and its consequence – revolutionary changes in scholarly and social communication in scientific research. International Journal of Toxicology 24, 25-34.
Calise, M, de Rosa, R., & Fernandez i Marin, X (2010). Electronic publishing, knowledge sharing and open access: A new environment for political science, European Political Science 9, S50-S60.
Tenopir, C. & Wolverton, R.E. (2005). Conference report: Discovering the magic: Faculty and student use of electronic journals, The Serials Librarian 49, 159-164.
Welsh, T.S. & Creel, S. (2013). Geographic distribution of an open access e-journal. Information Services & Use 33(3/4), 103-111.
Thank you for your attention….
Questions? Dr. Stacy Creel
Dr. Teresa S. [email protected] aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting/