The Library as Publisher: Increasing Library Relevance through Institutional Repository Services Richard W. Clement Dean of Libraries ALA Midwinter 2010
Utah’s land-grant university, founded in ,000 students; 850 faculty; four campuses 200 undergraduate, 90 masters, and 35 doctoral programs Utah’s land-grant university, founded in ,000 students; 850 faculty; four campuses 200 undergraduate, 90 masters, and 35 doctoral programs Utah State University
Merrill-Cazier Library Merrill-Cazier Library New facility completed in 2005, 305,000 ft 2, nearly 2 million volumes, nearly 200 databases Automated storage and retrieval system with the capacity for over 1.5 million new volumes Information Commons with 150 workstations and 35 group study rooms
launched in November 2008
University Scholarly Publishing Technical Reports Conference Proceedings Journals Monographs = University Press
Technical Reports
Conference Proceedings
Scholarly Journals Open Access – Born digital Open Access – Converted and digitized Traditional, restricted digital access Traditional, no digital access
Open Access – Born digital
Open Access – Converted and digitized
Traditional, restricted digital access
Traditional, restricted digital access
Scholarly monographs
Traditional Publication
eBook Options
Open Access imprints
Open Access backlist
A New Publishing Model for Scholarly Monographs Concentration on the University’s own authors in all fields and disciplines Open Access using Digital Commons Print on Demand option Minimal marketing Distribution via the Internet
Next Steps Continue to assist in the conversion of the University’s journals, technical reports, and conference proceedings to Open Access in Digital Commons Continue to help new Open Access publications startup and flourish in Digital Commons Continue to put the Press’ backlist into Digital Commons as Open Access publications Launch a publicity program to inform faculty authors that the Press now publishes Open Access books in all disciplines Move most current Press books and future projects to Open Access, with a Print on Demand option
Our long-term goal at Utah State University is to create a scholarly publishing system based on Digital Commons to provide open and free access to all of the University’s publications.