Open Access publishing at Pitt: alignment with local and global OA policies Timothy S. Deliyannides Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing University Library System, University of Pittsburgh Library Publishing Forum 2014 Kansas City, MO, March 6, 2014

Overview  Open Access program aligned with institutional mission  Journal publishing program – central to advocacy for Open Access  Challenges: –Maintaining quality –Promoting reuse rights  Intentional alignment with partners whose mission and policies support our goals

Open Access: key to strategic plan for Innovation in Scholarly Communication  Support researchers in –efficient knowledge production –rapid dissemination of new research –open access to scholarly information  Build collaborative partnerships around the world  Improve the production and sharing of scholarly research  Support innovative publishing services  Establish trusted repositories for the research output of the University

A Comprehensive Program for OA  Support for Gold Open Access: –Publishing journals, books and conference proceedings –Open Access Author Fee Fund; COPE  Support for Green Open Access: –6 global, subject-based repositories –Local institutional repository and OA Mandate  Learning and teaching about OA  Advocacy and support for our OA partners  Measuring and marking success

Why become a Publisher?  Incentivize Open Access  Transform the subscription pricing system that punishes libraries and scholars  Provide services that scholars understand, need and value  Deepen our understanding of scholarly communications issues

OA publishing/dissemination activities  Institutional repository (EPrints)  6 global subject-based author self-archiving repositories (EPrints)  Conference proceedings (PKP OCS)  Monographs – new, e-only books (PKP OMP)  OA digital editions of Pitt Press backlist titles  Pennsylvania Digital Library (PKP Open Harvester)

ULS E-Journal Publishing  35 scholarly journals published by ULS  45 additional journals hosted by ULS (through Scholarly Exchange ® hosting service)  Most are Open Access (standard license: CC BY)  Based on PKP Open Journal Systems (OJS)  Editorial teams are located around the world  Six journals have multilingual content

 Production hosting environment with 24/7 support  ISSN registration  Assignment of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)  Consultation on editorial workflow  Advice on best practices in e-publishing  Graphic design services  Custom article template design  Web-based training for editorial staff Base package services

 Hosting of back issues  Registration with abstracting and indexing services  Web site usage statistics  Marketing and promotion  Archiving and preservation (LOCKSS)  Print on demand (Espresso Book Machine)  Altmetrics at article level (Plum Analytics) Base package services (continued)

Journal Publishing Strategies  Maintain quality and academic integrity  Choose partners carefully  Rely on self-sufficient editors  Work smart, not hard  Keep costs low  Ongoing monitoring/evaluation of academic quality

Ensuring and Maintaining Quality  Journal Proposal Form  Selection criteria  Publications Advisory Board –Advises on major policy decisions –Reviews journal proposals  Periodic audits of journal content and peer review processes  Assessment of research impact

Innovation in journal publishing  Open Peer review –Dialogic Pedagogy: –Dual OJS sites –simultaneous open and traditional peer review  Harvard Dataverse integration –Research data deposited along with manuscript submission –Based on OJS plugin  Alternative metrics (PlumX) –Article-level altmetrics on every article abstract page

Measuring success: altmetrics  Aggregates dozens of traditional and new measures  article-level altmetrics widget imbedded in OJS journals and Eprints repositories  Altmetrics pilot project (PlumX by Plum Analytics)

Scholarly Exchange ®   45 additional Open Access journals  Acquired by the ULS in 2012  Hosting service only  ULS is NOT the publisher and does not provide full publishing services  Benefits small journals in low-resource settings  Low-barrier entry to OA publishing

Sustaining our publishing program  Since 2012, we charge fees for services to publishing partners  We incentivize Open Access through subsidies  We subsidize Pitt publications  Pitt student publications are still free!  Partners may charge APCs; no examples yet

Alignments to support OA publishing  Founding member of Library Publishing Coalition  Member, Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE)  Major Development Partner for Public Knowledge Project (PKP)  Member, Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)  Member, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

OASPA’s mission  Exchange Information  Set Standards –uniform definition of OA publishing –best practices for OA scholarly communications –ethical standards  Advance OA business & process models  Advocate for Gold OA  Educate the research community and public on OA  Promote Innovation

How does membership benefit us as a library publisher?  STANDARDS help maintain and defend quality  Provide tools for advocacy and teaching about OA  Forum for discussion of key issues and trends  Keeps us connected with current information  Inspires confidence in potential publishing partners

OASPA Code of Conduct  Maintain rigorous peer review process for published content  Editorial boards with recognized experts  Transparency for: –Peer review process and policies –Author fees and policies (if any) –Author copyright/licensing policies –Author submission instructions

OASPA Membership Criteria  At least one gold OA journal with original research  Articles must be peer-reviewed  No reader registration required to access content  OA policy equivalent to CC BY, however use of the CC BY-NC license also permittedCC BYCC BY-NC  Desirable: DOIs for articles, indexing/discoverability, COPE membership, archiving policy  Compliance with OASPA Code of Conduct

Membership led to changes for us  clarified our policies  improved our transparency  improved our Web site  adopted well-articulated code of conduct  changed to more open definition of OA, encouraging downstream reuse

CC BY - our standard license  Renegotiated with all publishing partners in 2012  Successfully converted more than half  20 journals now use CC BY  Pushback in some disciplines  All new journals since the change are CC BY  Our three subscription-based journals remain at CC BY-NC-ND

Coming soon: DOAJ Seal criteria  archival arrangement with an external party  permanent identifiers (handles, DOIs, etc) for articles  article level metadata provided to DOAJ  machine-readable licensing information embedded in article level metadata  allow reuse and remixing of its content in accordance with a CC-BY or CC-BY-NC license  deposit policy registered in a deposit policy directory (like SHERPA/RoMEO)