Category Archives for Online University Press
Stanford University Press pioneering digital academic publishing through innovative program
Stanford University Press’s digital publishing program gives scholars an extraordinary opportunity to publish and peer review their interactive scholarship. Read More
Distributed Publishers: Collaborating and Facilitating Publishing Across Campus
While the support for publishing open access journals in libraries is widespread as evidenced by the Library Publishing Coalition member roster and discussions about journals on library listservs and at conferences, not all libraries approach journal support by taking on … Continue reading
Hacking the Literature Review: Opportunities and Innovations to Improve the Research Process
This article proposes a methodical, reproducible, three-stage process that harnesses the power digital tools bring to the research cycle, regardless of the user’s preferred platform or operating system. Focusing just on the literature review phase, we develop a conceptual framework, … Continue reading
User Engagement with Digital Archives for Research and Teaching: A Case Study of Emblematica Online
Researchers increasingly engage with the digital archives built by libraries, archives, and museums, but many institutions still seek to learn more about researchers’ needs and practices with these digital collections. This paper presents a user assessment study for Emblematica Online, a … Continue reading
Social Media Shaping e-Publishing and Academia
The main aim of this book is to present the current state of the art in the field of e-publishing and social media. The book discusses a relatively new research topic that will be useful to researchers in the area … Continue reading
Extending Omeka for a Large-Scale Digital Project
In September 2016, the department of Special Collections and Archives, Kent State University Libraries, received a Digital Dissemination grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to digitize roughly 72,500 pages from the May 4 collection, which documents … Continue reading
Developing an open journals hosting service: a case study from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU)
This paper outlines Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) Library Services’ first steps into that world through the offering of an open journals hosting service. It begins by explaining the background and justification for the library offering such a service and … Continue reading
Libraries of the Future Focus on Digital Collaboration and Scholarship
Some big-name libraries have gone digital with their resources. Harvard University Library has also taken advantage of technology to make operations more efficient across the more than 70 Harvard Library units through a new cloud-based tool. Read More
The digital library futures project
“Paul Gooding” describes a joint project looking at the impact of the expansion of legal deposit to include digital material and the challenges that these e-legal deposits pose for the academic sector and its interactions with institutional and regulatory system. Read … Continue reading
S’pore research: Key is access to info
How true is the claim that Singapore research is not publishable? The setback might be due to the limited access to information. Singapore is slowly opening up through portals such as data.gov.sg and the establishment of the Social Science Research … Continue reading