Scholarly Communication
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Item Stronger Together at the Big Ten: Library Publishing Collective Action([Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2025-05-07) McCready, Kate; Laird, Ally; Vaughn, MatthewTasked with serving extremely large populations, with limited resources and little chance of realizing increased capacities, the Big Ten Academic Alliance libraries are realizing opportunities to work together through collective action. With a goal of strengthening our work, and expanding our capacity, the library publishers of the Big Ten Academic Alliance have aligned our resources in order to build a cooperative, aggregated collection of BTAA-published works on the Next Generation Library Publishing’s Meru platform. The short term goal of this project is to evaluate Meru’s capacity to support the display of a variety of publication types, regardless of the platform they were created on. The longer term goals are to determine Meru’s capacity to produce metadata for all publications (or selected publications) for use in discovery systems and preservation systems, and to identify options for the Alliance to work at scale. At this presentation, members of the project team will share information about the functionality of Meru and the process used to ingest content from Janeway, OJS, DSpace, and Pressbooks into a unified, structured display layer. The interactive, community engaged process used to identify the common product requirements, and to evaluate the implemented multi-publisher display platform will also be explored. We will also outline our efforts to assess the potential for reusing the newly compiled, aggregated publication data for discovery (via third party vendors such as ExLibris, EBSCO, and OAPEN), preservation (via third party vendors, Portico and CLOCKSS), and accessibility testing. These activities will be shared within the context of the challenges and opportunities present when bringing together disparate programs; We aim to identify our differences in order to strengthen all our publishing programs and see what synergy comes from working together.Item Automating JATS XML Tagging With ChatGPT([Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2024-05-15) Vaughn, MatthewWhile significant progress has been made in streamlining JATS XML publication workflows, efficiently converting article submission files into JATS XML galleys remains challenging for smaller publishers. The Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) is a global standard for scholarly journal publishing, indexing, sharing, and archiving. Motivated by the advantages of XML publishing, the Indiana University open access journal publishing program has explored a number of options to expand our use of JATS. In 2023, we began experimenting with the generative AI tool ChatGPT to assess its potential in automating the JATS conversion step in our publishing workflow. Our results demonstrated that ChatGPT can effectively tag plain-text research article content in accurate, publishable JATS. In an effort to automate XML tagging for the journal Studies in Digital Heritage (SDH), we designed several prompts to direct ChatGPT in tagging each section of a research article in our specific JATS format. Guided by prompts that provided relevant XML examples, ChatGPT was able to produce JATS-compliant tagging from plain-text article content. At the section level, the JATS produced by ChatGPT was comparable in accuracy to our vendor-produced JATS. Eventually, this approach along with several additional steps was able to produce a publication-ready JATS galley which we then posted to SDH. While our experiment with automating JATS XML tagging demonstrates that large language models like ChatGPT are capable of performing this type of work with high accuracy, the current token limitations of ChatGPT 3.5 necessitate a piecemeal approach which makes this method too unwieldy for large scale adoption at this point. Nevertheless, if the token limit were substantially increased, and if we could input all our prompts simultaneously, fully automated JATS tagging may be within reach.Item Embracing Open Access: Self-Archiving with IUScholarWorks(2024-03-01) Cooke, RivkahThis session will introduce attendees to the benefits of open scholarship and show them how they can make their research open access by self-archiving in an institutional archive. Goals: Participants will be able to describe different types of open access, understand the different versions of scholarly articles, research publisher self-archiving policies, and deposit an article into IUScholarWorks. Audience: The intended audience for this session is faculty and graduate students.Item A Fresh Take on JATS: Book Reviews as a Simple, Immediate, and Accessible Gateway to Full-Text Publishing([Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2023-05-09) Vaughn, Matthew; Higgins, RichardEven as JATS XML has become the standard format for academic publishing, the challenges involved in implementing a JATS XML-based publishing workflow have prevented many library publishers from moving beyond PDF-based publishing. The complicated apparatus of even the most basic scholarly articles complicates XML production considerably. In addition, most existing workflows are reliant on XML conversion tools or paid vendors to convert author submission documents into JATS XML. In either case, these XML documents are time-consuming to produce and often require additional editing and correction before publication. Book reviews, on the other hand, provide a less burdensome format for library publishers who wish to transition to XML publishing. With minimal training, editorial teams can format JATS XML book reviews in-house without resorting to paid vendors or conversion tools. This presentation outlines the successful onboarding of a JATS-only book review journal to the Open Journal Systems platform. To facilitate this, we created a simplified JATS XML template using the DAR tag subset specification to optimize machine readability, avoid redundancy, and ensure reusability. The onboarding process also required customization of the OJS interface and the creation of detailed documentation and training materials for the editorial team. Although the editorial team had no prior experience with OJS or JATS XML, they are now publishing full-text, machine-readable books reviews. As the result of our work, these book reviews will now be more easily indexed and permanently stored as markup in a digital preservation archive. The semantically tagged content will facilitate keyword searches and increase discoverability over the long term. Finally, as a machine-readable format, JATS XML is inherently accessible and includes elements that allow for accessibility tagging and for the creation of interfaces that are both Section 508 and WCAG compliant.Item Building a Publishing Platform Crosswalk: A Documentation Month Case Study([Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2023-05-09) Guimont, Corinne; Ball, Cheryl E.; Vaughn, MatthewOne of the challenges library publishers face is, with so many new academy-owned publishing platforms available, which one is right for their services or their author needs? We identified several common publishing/digital scholarship platforms — Fulcrum, Manifold, Scalar, OJS, Janeway, and a few others — and researched basic documentation on each of them across a specific set of user-needs criteria. Criteria included publication and content types, what’s possible to ingest or embed, hosting services, preservation and export options, and a few others. We also identified, when possible, what makes one platform stand out from another when they fell into similar publishing realms (i.e., books vs. journals vs. collections). Our presentation covers which platforms we chose, what documentation we looked for for each and why, and how we decided to design the final crosswalk. It also highlights how much we were able to accomplish with one hour a week during LPC’s documentation month.Item Text Mining “Re-” in Victorian Poetry(2023-11-11) Mazel, AdamItem Time for Change: Transforming Library Instruction for Transformative Learning(ACRL, 2023) Mazel, Adam; Bush, LindsayItem Exploring the Advantages of Book Review Publishing as an Introduction to JATS XML Production([Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2022-11) Vaughn, MatthewWhile the JATS XML format is widely used in scholarly publishing, many library publishers have been slow to implement this standard in their article production workflows. Due to the challenges involved in converting, editing, and rendering conventional article submission files into full-text XML galleys, library publishers often lack the resources and experience to adopt JATS as a publishing format. The complicated apparatus of even the most basic scholarly articles, such as abstracts, images, graphs, footnotes, and references, complicate XML production considerably. Book reviews, however, provide a less complex format for library publishers who wish to gain experience publishing in XML. Drawing on a recent experience onboarding an online book review journal to the Open Journal Systems platform, this presentation offers a practical guide to developing a JATS publishing workflow that is accessible for both library publishers and editorial teams with minimal prior knowledge of XML.Item Using Research Impact Tools to Create Scholarly Communication Reports for Humanities Librarians([Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2021-05) Tavernier, Willa; Vaughn, MatthewAs subject-specialist librarians are increasingly expected to integrate scholarly communication competencies into their skillset, humanities specialists face the added challenge of addressing the insufficient coverage of humanities scholarship in the available citation databases. The purpose of this project was to develop and document an approach for creating discipline-specific scholarly communication reports for humanities liaison librarians. This methodology offers a practical way for liaisons to integrate bibliometric methods into their work while also creating a useful picture of scholarship at the departmental level.Item OER Summer Sprint- Programming Materials(2023-01-09) Norris, HaleyItem Digital Collection Exploring Experiences Of Blacks Gaining Economic Independence | Good Morning SKN(Studio 327 Inc, 2022-04-27) Tavernier, WillaOn Good Morning's SKNs Connections, Jamie and Kortensia connect with Willa Liburd Tavernier. Willa hails from our twin-island Federation. She is currently a Research Impact & Open Scholarship Librarian at Indiana University. Recently, Willa spearheaded the launch of an open-source digital resource collection called “Land, Wealth, Liberation,” She speaks more about it and her experiences with racism in this powerful and insightful interview.Item Willa Liburd Tavernier On Land, Wealth, Liberation Digital Resource(Winn Media SKN, 2022-04-20) Tavernier, WillaItem Winn Media SKN News Item on “Land, Wealth, Liberation” Digital Resource(Winn Media SKN, 2022-04-20) Tavernier, WillaItem Peer Review as Relationship(2021-10-26) Abebe, Megdi; Santiago, Kristina; Leung, SofiaThis approach to peer review offers our contributors and reviewers agency in the process. We intentionally center the research, meditations and creative works by, for, and of BIPOC, as well as a publishing environment that prioritizes well-being.Item Your Journals Are Spying On You: Research Surveillance in Library Products(2021-10-22) Lamdan, SarahOur traditional journal vendors are transitioning from being publishers to being data analytics companies. A few of them, including RELX (Reed Elsevier + LexisNexis) have even become data brokers that sell dossiers of personal information to ICE. In this discussion, we’ll look at how companies’ research platforms are now part of larger data analytics systems, and what that means for our privacy and intellectual freedom. We’ll also think about open access projects and other efforts that could help ensure that people who use our libraries can do their research without being subjected to surveillance.Item Diversity Residency Toolkit(ACRL Residency Interest Group, 2021-09) Adolpho, Kalani; Bergamasco, Maya; Corral, Ana; Peralta, Michelle; Rawls, Mallary; Tadena, Laura; Tavernier, WillaAlthough many factors contribute to a resident’s experience with their host institution, the lack of established standards and best practices for diversity residencies has led to a wide disparity of resident experiences. In order to reduce this disparity, the Diversity Residency Toolkit was developed to improve diversity residency programs through the tenets of responsible commitments, intentional planning, and responsive assessment that begin far in advance of a resident’s arrival. The Diversity Residency Toolkit has broad applications and is suitable for institutions that already have a residency program and as well as those who are considering developing a residency program. It may be used by current and prospective residents, residency coordinators, supervisors, library administrators, and other stakeholders of diversity residency programs. Although the toolkit is intended for diversity residencies hosted at academic institutions, it may be adapted for non-diversity residencies as well as non-academic organizations such as museums, public libraries, business libraries and archives, etc. Interested parties may complete the form at https://bit.ly/DivToolkit to participate.Item Scholarly Communication Updates(2021-04) Liburd Tavernier, Willa; Quill, TheresaAn update on open scholarship and open data services at IU Bloomington LibrariesItem IU Libraries Course Material Services(2020-10-28) Vaughn, Matthew; Hare, SarahThis video describes the options and services that instructors have for selecting course materials. These include Open Educational Resources, fair use analysis, scanning of print materials, and finding/ acquiring library databases and eBooks.Item Scholarly Communication at the Library: Encouraging Open Access, Open Publishing, and Open Education(2020-08-27) Hoops, JennyThis presentation presents several strategies, services, and workflows to facilitate scholarly communication concepts at all levels of the library. This includes how to manage and encourage deposit to institutional repositories; how to provide support and consultations for faculty interested in making their work open access; and finally, how to help faculty find online open educational resources, especially with the recent shift to virtual teaching.Item Web Accessibility in the Institutional Repository: Crafting User-Centered Submission Policies(NASIG 2020, 2020-06) McLaughlin, Margaret; Hoops, JennyAs web accessibility initiatives increase across institutions, it is important not only to reframe and rethink policies, but also to develop sustainable and tenable methods for enforcing accessibility efforts. For institutional repositories, it is imperative to determine the extent to which both the repository manager and the user are responsible for depositing accessible content. This presentation allows us to share our accessibility framework and help repository and content managers craft sustainable, long-term goals for accessible content in institutional repositories, while also providing openly available resources for short-term benefit.