Publishing Without Walls, Digital Publishing and Global Studies

A presentation on the Mellon-funded Publishing Without Walls project and digital publishing for the University of Illinois Center for Global Studies' Chai War seminar series.

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1. PW W Publishing Without Walls Understanding Scholarly Needs for Digital Publishing and Scholarship Harriett Green Chai Wai: Digital Humanities January 30, 2018
2. PW W Introduction § Head of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, Scholarly Communication and Publishing Librarian § Editor-in-Chief of the Illinois Open Publishing Network § Project and Publications Manager for “Publishing Without Walls” https://iopn.library.Illinois.edu http://publishingwithoutwalls.Illinois.edu https://www.library.Illinois.edu/scp/
3. PW W Why Digital Publishing and Open Access? “Open-access scholarship has the potential to reach a broad spectrum of potentially interested publics. We in the humanities often resist opening our work to these publics, however, fearing the consequences of such openness…. “Increasing the discoverability of scholarly work on the web, making it available to a broader readership, is a good thing, not just for the individual scholar but for the entirety of the field in which he or she works.” Kathleen Fitzpatrick (2013)
4. PW W Openness in the international context § Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association: https://oaspa.org/ § Berlin Declaration: https://openaccess.mpg.de/Berlin-Declaration § The Hague Declaration: http://thehaguedeclaration.com/ § Cape Town Open Education Declaration: http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/ “Whether your mission is to tackle critical problems like climate change or ending poverty or to capitalize on the enormous opportunities that having the world’s knowledge at your fingertips presents, Open Access practices and policies can help you speed up progress towards achieving your goals—and that’s a very powerful, very appealing prospect.” Heather Joseph, executive director of SPARC
5. PW W Scholarly Communication and Publishing Copyright Authors’ Rights Fair Use Open Access and Creative Commons IDEALS Open Access Mandate deposit of faculty articles Theses and Dissertations Illinois Experts Illinois faculty research profiles ORCiD Global sharing of Illinois research Illinois Open Publishing Network Digital Publishing Scholarly Communications Open Educational Resources https://www.library.Illinois.edu/scp
6. PW W Illinois Open Publishing Network https://iopn.library.Illinois.edu
7. PW W Illinois Open Publishing Network •Library-based Open Access publishing of journals and long form digital publications •What we can do for you: • Help you plan your ideas and content • Help you choose tools and determine the workflow needed for building a digital publication •Disseminate your publication with IOPN •Help you gather metrics and impact •What we can’t do for you: • Create your publication • Host your personal website
8. PW W PUBLISHING WITHOUT WALLS § Build capacity for participation in innovative publishing initiatives § Conduct research and assessment of how emerging technologies align with the expressed needs of participating scholars § Create a new model for the conceptual development of scholarly communication A new digital scholarly publishing initiative from the University of Illinois
9. PW W African American Studies Humanities Without Walls Series
10. PW W African American Studies § Black Diaspora § Global South § Forthcoming Projects: ­ Digitizing Diaspora Dance Identities ­ Langston Hughes’ “A Negro Looks at Central Soviet Asia” Humanities Without Walls § Global Midwest and Changing Climate initiatives § Forthcoming projects: ­ Music in Conflict ­ Insurgent Midwest Global Inflections
11. PW W Digital Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem Publishing Without Walls Advantages • Open access • Experimental Drawbacks • Small • Low profile University Presses Advantages • Academic • Prestigious Drawbacks • Traditional • Under-resourced Commercial Presses Advantages • Well-resourced • Market preparation Drawbacks • Market-driven • Non-academic
12. PW W Our Tools Open Journal Systems Scalar Omeka Pressbooks Commons in a Box PWW
13. PW W Primary Modes of Representation § Pressbooks: Long-form linear narratives § Omeka: Exhibitions § Scalar: Multi-linear narratives § OJS: Born-digital, open access journals § Commons in a Box: Collaborative creation and discussion
14. PW W Digital Publishing and International Studies Pressbooks § Araba Sey, Chris Coward, et al., “Connecting People for Development”: http://tascha.uw.edu/publications/ebook-connecting-people-for- development/ Omeka § Museums & Community Collaborations Abroad, “Identities: Understanding Islam in a Cross Cultural Context”: http://marb.kennesaw.edu/identities/ Scalar § Minoo Moallem, “Nation on the Move”: http://vectors.usc.edu/issues/5/nationonthemove/index.html
15. PW W OJS Community of Users
16. PW W Helping scholars engage in digital publishing § Content creation (e.g., developing or gathering text, images, multi-media or other resources that you intend to include in your publication) § Content management (e.g., loading content into the tool or platform of your choice, developing metadata as needed, establishing relationships between digital objects) § Design and presentation (e.g., determining layout of content and augmenting provided templates with any additional design features)
17. PW W Publications (January 2018) Initial Consultation Development Production Publication
18. PW W Opening and innovating scholarship § Course syllabi and student projects § Blog to book publishing § Immersive storytelling § Crowdsourcing and community contributions § Exploiting digital affordances to expose competing interpretations § Maps, timelines, and alternative visualizations
19. PW W Digital Scholarship @ Illinois Digital Services Media Commons Publishing / IOPN IDEA Lab Scholarly Commons Research Data Service http://www.library.Illinois.edu
20. PW W Our Thanks for PWW
21. PW W Questions? Harriett Green Head of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, University Library green19@illinois.edu Publishing Without Walls http://publishingwithoutwalls.Illinois.edu Illinois Open Publishing Network https://iopn.library.Illinois.edu scp@library.Illinois.edu