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• Installation and management of Open Journal Systems on Simon Fraser University’s servers • Training and support to editors, reviewers and authors • Deposit data to databases such as Pubmed and CrossRef • Access to our expert copyeditors, typesetters and proofreaders who specialize in the medical field • Design, printing and distribution of print journals • Secretariat functions for the society Case Study: Resilience Alliance www.resalliance.org The Resilience Alliance is a research organization comprised of scientists and practitioners from many disciplines who collaborate to explore the dynamics of social-ecological systems. The body of knowledge developed by the RA, encompasses key concepts of resilience, adaptability and transformability and provides a foundation for sustainable development policy and practice. Resilience Alliance currently publishes 2 open access journals in the field of ecology. The organization has recently launched journal development and journal management and maintenance services for academic societies, government agencies and other interested parties wanting to launch an open access journal or revitalize an existing journal. Using the OJS software, Resilience Alliance will help to establish a new peer-review journal or transform an existing journal to an online open access format. Each service agreement is unique, but service offerings include: • Journal user interface design • Guidance in the development of editorial processes and policies • Hardware and software configuration and training • Arranging journal abstracting and registration with libraries • Hardware and software maintenance • Managing peer review workflow • Managing copy editing and publication • Conversion of published HTML articles to print style <strong>PDF</strong> format IV. University Presses A university press is an academic, non-profit publishing house usually affiliated with a research university. Like all publishers, university presses are feeling the effects of changes to scholarly communication. A recent report published by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) talks about the pressures exerted on university presses in the digital environment. “As they have struggled in a difficult market, university presses have been 17
criticized for failing to exploit the benefits of online publishing models. Yet such criticism often ignores the constraints under which the presses operate, including a financial model that typically requires them to recover almost 90% of their costs, and—more significantly—the expectations of their host institutions, indeed of the entire academy, that they continue to fulfill their traditional roles as publishers of original scholarly monographs.” 13 In addition, “university presses have become less integrated with the core activities and missions of their home campuses over the years — a drift that threatens to widen as information technology transforms the landscape of scholarly publishing.” 14 Without strong institutional support, it has been difficult for presses to adapt to changing circumstances. Despite these challenges, a recent survey by the Association of American University Presses found that many of their members are moving towards e-book publishing and marketing their content through digital content vendors and aggregators. The survey also found that some presses are also experimenting with open access by making some of their digital monographs available free of charge. Below are a number of case studies describing new approaches being undertaken Canadian university presses in order to adapt to the changing publishing environment: Case Study: Athabasca University Press www.aupress.ca Athabasca University Press (AU Press) is the centre of scholarly publishing expertise at Athabasca University. It was launched in 2006 and is the first scholarly press to be established by a Canadian university in the twenty-first century. It publishes from 10-20 monographs per year and also 7 academic journals. The Press has an active, interdisciplinary editorial board that ensures that it publishes only high quality manuscripts and its books won 4 awards in its first year of production. Athabasca University is dedicated to the removal of all barriers to knowledge. As such, the AU Press is committed to the dissemination of knowledge and research through open access and the digital environment. The Press is completely open access. All of its digital publications are available for free over the Internet and, wherever possible, its publications are licensed with Creative Commons licences. AU Press receives funding from Athabasca University, government grants, and it actively pursues co-publishing agreements with other universities. It also receives revenue from the licensing of ebooks to content aggregators, as well as sales of print editions Although difficult to assess, staff do not believe that free online access to the monographs have had a negative impacted print sales 13 Crow, pg.1 14 Brown, pg. 4 18
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