Adapting publishing principles and best practices for Repository-Hosted Journals: Sustainable ideas for enhancing local Open Access Publishing

Abstract

This poster addresses the question: How can librarians and administrators working with repository-hosted journal editors incorporate best practices into hosted journals without taking on the role of publisher and without overextending themselves?

The "Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing" (COPE, DOAJ, OASPA, WAME, 2022) provides foundational guidance for journal publishing. The guidelines cover a robust suite of topics such as authorship, peer review, funding sources, author cost transparency, and licensing and copyright. Publishers with staff who support a suite of journals (whether 10 or 1000) may be able to evaluate and adopt such guidance relatively quickly and uniformly across their brand. However, journals hosted on repositories often operate under a more distributed system of management and without a central publisher. The relationship between libraries and journal editors reflects collaboration and service provision, rather than oversight.

This poster will identify ways in which repository administrators can incorporate the "Principles of Transparency" as part of a distributed publishing model. I will use a case study from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries to share one approach to incorporating publisher-focused guidance in support of hosted journals.