Monday, 23rd July 2007

New Paper: The National Library of Australia: Open access to Open Publish

The National Library of Australia: Open access to Open Publish
by Bobby Graham, Web Content Manager, National Library of Australia
19 pages; PDF.
Presented a paper on 12 July 2007 at the First International Public Knowledge Project Scholarly Publishing Conference in Vancouver.

From the abstract:

Academic and scholarly journals are in trouble: small print runs, part‐time editors, and dwindling funds are conspiring to crush them. But help is at hand: new trends in open access publishing support free, digital and open access to research literature, bringing writing and discourse to new and wider audiences.

The National Library of Australia has created an Open Publish web space, using the Open Journal Systems (OJS) digital publishing software to manage, host and deliver an online open access journal service.

The Library’s objective is to establish ‘new ways of collecting, sharing, recording, disseminating and preserving knowledge’. We want ‘to ensure our relevance in a rapidly changing world, [by participating] in new online communities’. For these reasons, the Library decided to engage in an open access journal publishing trial.

This paper outlines the collaboration between the Library and the Association for the Study of
Australian Literature to migrate their peer‐reviewed journal, JASAL, to an online format.

Source: National Library of Australia

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