Publishing with Florida OJ: Recommended Readings on Library Publishing

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Library Publishing Coalition: association of academic and research libraries engaged in scholarly publishing. Journal Best Practices Checklist, released 2020.

SPARC Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

COPE Committee on Publication Ethics

A few good articles:

• The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing by Laakso, Welling, Bukvova, Nyman, Björk & Hedlund, 2011.
• Open Access Publishers: The New Players by Rodrigues, Abadal & Hermes de Araújo, 2020.

Send us your favorite sources for current discussions on the role of libraries in publishing!

• An ethical framework for library publishing , Library Publishing Coalition, 2018
• Getting the word out: Academic libraries as scholarly publishers, ed. by Bonn & Furlough, 2015
  • We scholars: How libraries could help us if only we'd let them by J. Britt Holbrook in Getting the Word Out: Academic, 2015
• Libraries Presses Publishing SPEC Kit 357, CRL 2017
• Scholarly journal publication: Conflicting agendas for scholars, publishers and institutions,  Miller & Harris, 2004
• Understanding Metadata: What is metadata, and what is it for? by J.Riley, NISO
• Rethinking digital preservation: definitions, models, and requirements
• Libraries and University Presses: Learning to work together, Eaton et al, 2004
• Library publishing services: Strategies for success, Final Report.  Mullins, 2017
• Libraries as content producers:  How library publishing services address the reading experience, Tracy 2017
• Guide to Developing OA Journals by David Solomon
• Library Publishing Toolkit ed. A. P. Brown, 2013

Is Open Access inclusive of scholars in the Global South?  Dr. Arianna Becerril-García is the Executive Director of Redalyc, the Network of Scientific Journals from Latin American and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal.  Redalyc is a regional open access portal for the social sciences and humanities indexing over 1,300 journals and hosting full text articles.  She is also Chair of AmeliCA (Open Knowledge for Latin America and the Global South), a new project to apply Redalyc's model to more than 15,000 journals.  Cllick here for a recent interview with Arianna Becerril-Garcia by Richard Poynder, May 2019.  Check out a summary on Twitter of her keynote address at the Library Publishing Coalition Forum 2019 in Vancouver May 8-10, 2019.

Q. What is peer review?

A. For an article to be published in an academic journal, it must be examined by experts in the field. They determine whether the information is reliable, well researched, and of interest to others who study that subject. For a more detailed explanation, watch the video below, Peer Review in 3 Minutes by North Carolina State University.

Q. Which journals have peer-reviewed articles?

A. To find out if a journal is peer reviewed (also known as refereed), you can use the Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory. Search by journal title, ISSN, etc. and look for the tiny referee shirt  as an indicator. You must be logged onto the UF wireless network to access this directory; log in using VPN if you are off-campus (instructions here).

Q. How do I know if an article is peer-reviewed?

A. Not every article in a peer-reviewed journal is a peer-reviewed article. Some scholarly journals also publish letters, conference notes, news items, etc. Look at the full text of the article you're interested in. A peer-reviewed article will show a string of dates, usually either near the abstract or at the bottom of the 1st page of the PDF version or at the end of the article, to indicate that the article was reviewed and usually revised.

Example: Manuscript received November 9, 2007; revised March 5, 2008. Published September 4, 2008.