Open Access Publishing: an editor’s perspective Dr Open Access Publishing: an editor’s perspective Dr. Kevin lalor, DIT Past Editor, irish journal of applied social studies ‘Open access – open action’, 26th October 2016, dr. steevens library and the health research board

Origins: 1998, Emphasis on low-cost, non-profit, ease of access for practitioners (first published by the Irish Association of Social Care Educators; now a journal of Social Care Ireland) Print run continued until 2011 Moved on-line in 2009 (http://arrow.dit.ie/ijass/), with Digital Commons (Berkeley Electronic Press)

Digital Commons services On-line manuscript/review processing platform Automated communications with reviewers/authors Most popular papers; Special Issues; RSS feed; Download count (incl to all contributors) 178 papers generated 177,011 downloads

Challenges Marketing/awareness (eg, LinkedIn group, n=400; fliers at conferences etc.) Lack of impact factor; not included in Scopus etc. & consequent profile of submissions Resisting ‘practice’ or ‘student’ submissions Continuity of quality submissions (eg, approach from Sage)

Support Importance of support from DIT Library and Digital Commons Importance of active Editorial Board Importance of Managing Editor Importance of ‘ownership’ by IASCE and then SCI.

Future … Place of small, non-profit OA publications in landscape dominated by giants such as Elsevier and Thomson Reuters … ?