1. Publishing Solutions for Contemporary Scholars: The Library as Innovator and Partner
Sarah E. Thomas
University Librarian
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY USA

2. The Library as Publisher
Some history
Some examples
Some lessons

3. Redefining the Mission of the Library?
The mission of the University of Delaware Library is to gather, organize, preserve, and provide access to the information resources necessary for the University of Delaware to achieve its educational, research, and service goals. .
The mission of the MIT libraries is to create and sustain an intuitive, trusted information environment that enables learning and the advancement of knowledge at MIT. We are committed to developing strategies and systems that promote discovery and facilitate worldwide scholarly communication.

4. The Library as Publisher-- Not a Recent Concept…
First University Librarian, 1868
First Director,
Cornell University Press, 1868
D. Willard Fiske,

6. arXiv
DSpace
Project Euclid
DPubS
DCAPS

9. The World’s Most Successful Open Access Disciplinary Repository: arXiv
> 4000 submissions monthly
355,000 e-prints
$200,000 annual operating subsidy provided by Cornell University Library
300 million searches annually on arXiv server at Cornell
Growth

12. 44 Math and Statistics Journals

13. Functionality Developed for Euclid
Full-text format neutral
Full-text indexing
Flexible access control options for publishers
Open Access
Society members
E-Commerce (pay-per-view)
OAI 2.0 compliance
Usage statistics for subscribers/publishers
Reference linking
DOI registration
Referral Service

14. Project Euclid Noteworthy Numbers
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Contribution to Start-up:
ca. $1,250,000 ( )
Annual cost to operate: $400,000 (in the black!)
Total number of articles: 35,000 (February 2006)
2/3 Open Access
300+% increase in titles in 3 years
~ 600,000 download requests (2005)
16% growth in articles in 2005
100% growth in subscribers in between 2005 and 2006

15. The top-impact journal in math appears first in Project Euclid

17. DPubS Development and Partners
Cornell University Library
Pennsylvania State Libraries
Penn State Press
Australian National University
Universität Bielefeld
University of Kansas
University of Utah
University of Wisconsin
Generalize and enhance the Euclid software and release as Open Source (Summer 2006)
DPubS Corporate Sponsor: Sun Microsystems

18. DPubs Features Focused distribution & controlled access
Subscription control
Support for multiple pricing models
Reference linking capabilities
Forward and backward linking
DOI registration at Cross Ref
Distinctive presentation styles and branding

19. Interoperate with repository systems
Identified IRs: DSpace, Fedora
DPubS becomes an application layer on top of IR

20. How Will DPubS Be Used? Grey Literature

21. How Will DPubS Be Used? Conference Proceedings

22. How Will DPubS Be Used? Journal Publication

23. How Will DPubS Be Used? Online Books

24. Who Will Use DPubS? University Presses

25. Who Will Use DPubS? Universities and Libraries

26. Who Will Use DPubS? Institutional Repositories

27. Who Will Use DPubS? Scholarly Societies

28. Who will use DPubS? Libraries as Service Providers

29. Are Publishing Endeavors a Core Mission of the Library?
Trend for directors of libraries to oversee university presses
Rising importance of scholarly communication in library activities
Library as change agent

30. What Does the Library Bring to the Table?
Knowledge of systems (imaging, metadata, copyright)
Experience with end users of scholarly information
Deep infrastructure
24/7/365 service orientation
Subject specialists
Ability to link authors and readers
Incentive to contain or reduce costs of scholarly publishing
Commitment to preservation of scholarly record
Willingness to take risks

31. What Publishing Core Competencies Are New to Libraries?
Content acquisition via authors and editors
Contract negotiation
Editorial management and peer review
Printing
Marketing
Distribution and Fulfillment
Business modeling
Cost analysis
Time to market ( urgency)
Competition

32. What are the Opportunities?
Collaborate with authors, scholarly societies, technologists, and other stakeholders to create a 21st century process for communicating and using scholarly research and information.
Develop a closer partnership with scholars in the act of knowledge creation.
Create economical tools and services that improve distribution and use.
Reduce the costs to the academy and society of sharing scholarly information and data.
Lower the barriers to access to scholarly information and data

33. Libraries are Important Partners in the Scholarly Communications Process

34. Center for Innovative Publishing
DPubS
Center for Innovative Publishing