DLF Forum 2017

Presentations
 
Ecologies of Mutuality: How Journals, Libraries, and Scholarly Societies Can Move Open Forward
Jon Dunn(1), Marcel LaFlamme(2)
1: Indiana University, United States of America; 2: Rice University, United States of America
 
This presentation reflects on the emerging relationship between the Avalon Media System, the Indiana University Libraries, and the open-access journal Cultural Anthropology, which we describe as an ecology of mutuality. Such ecologies, we argue, stand to drive innovations in open platforms and the very forms that scholarly communication can take.
 
 
Publishing Pedagogy with Students in a Library Publishing Unit
Cheryl Ball, Demi Fuentes Ramirez
West Virgnia University, United States of America
 
This multivocal presentation shares strategies for collaborating with faculty and teaching undergraduate and graduate students about digital publishing practices in the library through classes and internships they take. The presenters include a faculty member/library publishing director and a graduate student.
 
 
Using an ethnographic study to better understand the campus scholarly publishing environment
Shannon Kipphut-Smith
Fondren Library, Rice University, United States of America
 
Increasingly, academic libraries are pursuing “library as publisher” activities, and are seeking out opportunities to support scholarly publishing on their campuses. However, identifying campus publishing needs can be challenging. This snapshot will explore Fondren Library’s efforts to better understand the current scholarly publishing environment on campus using ethnographic interviews.
 
 
Project Update: Developing A Curriculum to Advance Library-Based Publishing
Melanie Schlosser, Katherine Skinner
Educopia Institute
 
We will give an update on an in-progress, IMLS-funded project to design and implement a competency-based curriculum for library publishing. The project will provide much-needed training for the growing community of librarians engaged in publishing, with an additional focus on creating a more diverse scholarly publishing landscape.
 
 
Introducing Humanities Commons: Open Access, Open Source, and Open to All
Anne Donlon
Modern Language Association, United States of America
 
Imagine a network with the sharing power of Academia.edu, the dedication to preservation of an institutional repository, and a commitment to using and contributing to open source software. Now imagine that this network is not-for-profit. It doesn’t want to sell user data or profit from intellectual property. That’s Humanities Commons.