Library Support for Journal PublishingEmphasis 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.

Outline

• Open Access Journal Publishing @ UO Libraries

• Ada and Fembot• Open Peer Review• Multimodal• Infrastructure &

Costs http://adanewmedia.org

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

Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology

http://adanewmedia.org

Published by:

With significant support from:

Publishing Ada

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The Fembot Collective & Ada

Infrastructure & Hosting

Marrero, J. F. (2011 July 3), https://www.flickr.com/photos/jfmfoto/5902024151/ CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0

Open Access -

Multi-modal & Interactive

Zylinska, J. (2014) iEarth. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, No.5. doi:10.7264/N36W98CF

Ruberg, 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

Multi-level Peer Review

Accepted for Publication

Suggestions for Alternative Publication

Suggestions for Resubmission

Not Accepted for Publication

Collective Peer Review

Open Peer Review in Action

Open Peer Review

Training for Open Peer Review

Review Labor

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.”

Comments on Articles By the Numbers

2,405 Items

Preserving Ada

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

Preserving Multi-Modal

Harvesting Multi-Modal

Questions of Indexing

Scheduling Editorial & Production Team

Slide content by Sarah Hamid

Project Management & Documentation

Documentation & Manual Labor

Slide content by Sarah Hamid

Spam

Assessment

Some Metrics

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

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

Comparators

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BenchmarksDigital 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/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=journals

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

Costs

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

Labor Costs• GTF• Designer• Manager• Copy Editing• System Updates• User Account Tech Support• CSS Modifications• Interactive Development