Objective 7. Operate an electronic publishing program capable of systematic production and distribution of journals, monographs, and multimedia compositions and foster alternatives to conventional publishing .
Ensure that our current initiatives—arXiv, Euclid, and DPubS—attain sustainability and then build on the success of these programs as we look to expand into new areas of publishing.
Implementation
- Develop integrated conceptualization of the various initiatives presently under way across the library that serve as a strong foundation for continuing expansion. These initiatives include: arXiv, CTHEORY Multimedia, Indonesia, cooperation with the CU Press in producing electronic versions of Comstock press publications and the electronic distribution of CU press books via the Race & Religion site, Computer Science Technical Reports, Historical Mathematics Monographs, publications available in DSpace and other digital repositories, and newly developing initiatives. (See Potential Partners, below).
- Envision these and future initiatives as related endeavors within a common framework and with common “branding” to facilitate production synergies and enable their promotion as a promising constellation of alternative publishing options.
- Develop integrated business models that ideally would ensure adequate revenue/funding streams to systematically support publishing over time. DCAPS management and services can be developed and employed in a manner necessary to enhance economies of scale in this effort.
- Identify and focus energies in a new area of publishing concentration to build a more-robust and sustainable publishing enterprise. Although an eclectic approach has significant benefits (particularly on campus), the operational and marketing efficiencies resulting from focused initiatives are essential to sustainability and to transformative impact.
- These implementations must be accompanied by an active promotion and marketing campaign designed to increase awareness, generate cooperative interest and involvement worldwide, and produce revenues/funding necessary to insure stable financial operation over time.
Potential Partners
- More mathematics and statistics publishers.
- Cornell University Press (current).
- Library and Press at Pennsylvania State University.
- Additional institutional relationships.
- American Mathematical Society (to add content to Euclid).
- Organizations and universities in Japan (to add content to Euclid).
- International Statistical Institute regarding citation services for the arXiv
- Professor Cooke in supporting his scholarly communication project employing DSpace (current).
- Professor Murray and faculty and artists internationally in publishing CTHEORY Multimedia (current).
- Asian Studies in supporting the publication of Indonesia (current).
- SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition).
- Institute for Social Sciences.
Measures of Success
- The enterprise is robust and efficient and financially and operationally sustainable (quantifiably measurable within three years).
- High-quality publishing services and content at reasonable costs to higher education and other consumers in a manner that enhances scholarly research and teaching (quantifiably measurable within three years).
- Systems and services that significantly contribute to empowering transformative change in the current academic publishing model.