Brief review of University of Oregon Libraries Journal Publishing program followed by in-depth look at Ada. Content also provided by Sarah Hamid and Bryce Peake
Library Support for Journal Publishing: Emphasis on multi-modal open peer review through Ada
1. Library Support for Journal
Publishing
Emphasis on multi-modal open peer review through Ada
University of Victoria, July 7, 2015
Karen Estlund, kestlund@uoregon.edu
Based on:
“Publishing Ada: A Retrospective Look at the First Three Years of an Open Peer Review Multi-Modal
Journal” with Sarah Hamid and Bryce Peake. Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) spring meeting,
Seattle, Washington, 2015.
2. Outline
• Open Access
Journal Publishing
@ UO Libraries
• Ada and Fembot
• Open Peer Review
• Multimodal
• Infrastructure &
Costs http://adanewmedia.org
3. Open Access Journal Publishing @ UO
Libraries
• 5* Journals - All Interdisciplinary: Humanities & Social
Sciences
• Platforms:
• OJS (hosted by Oregon State University Libraries & Press)
• Wordpress w/ Comment Press
• Wordpress w/ Annotum Theme
• Wordpress w/ ISSU
http://library.uoregon.edu/digitalscholarship/open-access-publishing
* 1 forthcoming, OJS submission also used for campus symposiums
4. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New
Media, and Technology
http://adanewmedia.org
9. Multi-modal & Interactive
Zylinska, J. (2014) iEarth. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New
Media, and Technology, No.5. doi:10.7264/N36W98CFRuberg, B., (2015) Curating with a Click: The Art That
Participatory Media Leaves Behind. Ada: A Journal of
Gender, New Media, and Technology, No.7.
doi:10.7264/N3PR7T8X
10. Multi-level Peer Review
Accepted for
Publication
Suggestions for
Alternative Publication
Suggestions for
Resubmission
Not Accepted for
Publication
16. Review Process Feedback
“I like that it’s mentorship focused. I get to
ask myself ‘how can I help make this piece
publishable,’ rather than acting as some
kind of gatekeeper for a competition-driven
scarcity that is traditional journals.”
19. Digital Preservation Process
• Backup Pro Plan purchased through Bluehost
• Issue Preservation - after each issue is published:
• SQL data dumps
• Copy public-html directory from webserver
• Harvest entire site with ArchiveIt!
• Article Preservation
• Harvesting through site
• Harvesting articles hosted elsewhere with ArchiveIt!
• Media files requested in highest resolution and sent via FTP to web team
for integration into UO Libraries digital preservation processes
29. Metric-driven writing + building
● web is set up for articles about the web to succeed
○ 94k inbound links, 19k were originally pinged by our
articles.
Slide content by Bryce Peake
30. Metric-driven writing + building
● People who show up not for a specific article are going
to issues, but not in ‘lead article’ order
○ We now randomize article order on front page.
Slide content by Bryce Peake
32. Benchmarks
Digital Commons
Journals
- Ave. Downloads per article at
end of 2013: 297
Ada
- Not Downloadable!
- 1691 Pageviews per article
(eliminating quick exits)
- 1559 PageViews per article
for year 1 (eliminating quick
exits)
“Library-led Publishing with bepress Digital
Commons:
Data and Benchmarks Report” (July 2014)
http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/cgi/viewco
ntent.cgi?article=1001&context=journals
33. Ada Personnel Successes
● Graduate Students
○ Chelsea Bullock (early proj. manager) - Marion Brittain Postdoc Fellow
@ Georgia Institute of Technology
○ Mél Hogan (first Fembot Advisory Board member) - Asst. Prof. of
Media Studies, Illinois Institute of Tech
○ Brian Reece (DSC graduate student) - Assoc. Dir. for Assessment +
Communication, Toppel Career Center @ University of Miami
○ Bryce Peake (first Webmistress) - Intel fellowship, Asst. Prof. of Media
+ Communication Studies @ University of Maryland Baltimore County
● Faculty
○ Carol Stabile - ACLS
○ Radhika Gajjala - Fulbright Fellow, Norway
Slide content by Bryce Peake
35. Infrastructure Costs
• Web Hosting
•WordPress MultiSite w/CommentPress
•URLs
•Email
•FTP
• Back-up
• Spam Blocker
• Google Drive / Dropbox
• EZID for DOIs
• Archive-It!
• Preservation Storage
36. Labor Costs
• GTF
• Designer
• Manager
• Copy Editing
• System Updates
• User Account Tech Support
• CSS Modifications
• Interactive Development
Notas del editor
Publishing since 2011, started with one existing journal and two new journals on OJS
Part of DSC since 2012; Ada started in 2012, too; Part of a larger publishing program
Quality over quantity; pressure for more journals
Review original goals
move-able, sustainable, value-driven throughout
wind farm a bit too slow
First issue BY-NC-ND (not included in above numbers); website content default
options for which license, open culture issues
what labor to put into different types of functionality?
Embed on site or link out?
Not accepted items not made public
Beta Review
Level 1, Level 2, too many levels / naming issues
in-person sessions
Restricted to collective for comments in review
new people can be added to collective
Copy edits, feedback, questions and confirmation
Writing online and perception of comments
Using the system and user account support; ajax delays
how do you review multimodal in peer review
what kinds of changes can be made to multi-modal?
author time for dialogue is at a premium
Bad anonymous behavior, at best unhelpful
What to do when junior people review senior people’s work
Ephemeral okay?
Embed on site or linking relationship longterm?
Just text okay?
Javascript issues
Library indexing issues; MLA Bibliography
Google Scholar and Highwire Press <meta> tags
Wordpress and Metadata issues
Dropbox (Fembot and Ada documentation)
Experimented w/Trello now trying Asana
Too much manual
Comments and accounts
Article over issue
PDF support
Where is the data? No one is sharing
Altmetrics have no context
It is unclear whether their average is just for 2013 (one year) or the six years of their total data from the rest of the report.
Since our articles are read online rather than downloaded (except for the option from issue 1), we can’t really compare stats with these, but I tried to only calculate stats that had an average time where it looked like someone at least skimmed the page. Time is totally arbitrary according to me though.
These stats do not include AdaReview.