OJS Journal and Simultaneous Print on Demand: a - APSR

OJS Journal and Simultaneous
Print on Demand: a case study at
the University of Melbourne
Eve Young, James Williams and
Helen Morgan,
eScholarship Research Centre,
University of Melbourne
Speakers
• Eve – Coordinator – requirements, players, what was
delivered, problems, the future.
• James – I.T. Manager – software configuration and
setup, how the software delivered and the Print on
demand component, the launch.
• Helen – Web Designer – website intricacies.
Groups and responsibilities
• eSRC – Library, IT and Web skills – coordinated
and set up
• School – owners of content, editors and sub-editing,
determined image for cover, look of web page and
book design
• Copyright Office – UniMelb copyright deed,
author letters
• UniMelb Privacy Office statement
• University Bookshop – Book production, layout, web
advertising and selling
• University Printers quotes, printing
How delivered
• Meetings, meetings, meetings
• OJS and OCS software downloaded
• Discussed with other OJS users, Swinburne, Uni
Sydney, ANU
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How to use OJS – Issue to be created first
POD queries OJS forum and other publishers
School organised authors, did editing
We supplied software, storage and set up.
POD – price, cover size and design, and print run
Bookshop Sales
What we delivered!
What we forgot to do
• Emphasise the online open access aspect of OJS
• Factor in the costs of providing legal deposit books
gratis to the various university, state and national
libraries, and the School itself.
Future Directions
• Business case for ePublishing
• Online presence for UniMelb small journals and print
publications.
• Be involved with Open Monograph Systems
• Strengthen collaborative ties between the Library,
Faculties and the University Bookshop.
• Print on Demand: The Library in association with the
University Bookshop
Espresso Book Machine
• Prints black-and-white text for
a 300-page paperback with a
four-color cover, and binds it
together in three minutes.
• Publishing overlay journals
from the repository
• Link between repository and
ePublishing and shared
storage of items
What about the Institutional Repository (IR)?
• The question of Institutional Repositories for storage
and dissemination of theses and other published
works is often raised.
• While a “bigger picture” awareness is often
necessary, unfortunately, it is very easy to be lead
astray or side-tracked.
• Taking a single example, let’s consider
interoperability between OJS and the typical IR…
Shared OJS and IR Environments
File Server
OJS
IR
metadata
www
www
Shared OJS and IR Environments
• Granularity of Digital Objects?
• Institutional Repository (IR) Metadata Harvesting?
• Uni/Bi-Directional?
• Future Implementations?
Back to Basics – A Pilot Project
• Pilot – so begin with minimal technology footprint!
• “Servers” are often assumed to be “Big”… Why?
• For initial testing/proof-of-concept, virtual servers!
• Accessible using standard desktop hardware.
Back to Basics – Demystifying Infrastructure
• Virtual Server – “ojs-test” – Host O/S and Guest O/S
• VMware 1.0.7 (since upgraded) on Windows XP
• Debian Linux 4.0
• Apache 2.2
• PHP 5.2.0
• MySQL 5.0.32
Back to Basics – Demystifying Infrastructure
Back to Basics – Demystifying Infrastructure
Technical Tweaks
• Technical Tweaks (OJS)
– User “email” addresses: webmaster+ojs+user@...
– Individual logins vs. administrative logins…
– Workflows and roles…
• Test Server Tweaks
– Protected LDAP/AD logins via SSL
Simultaneous Print-On-Demand (POD)
• The Print-On-Demand aspect/requirement was likely
to be an integral part of the pilot from the outset.
• Absolutely Fundamental: Citability and Persistence.
• Mixing the digital and print “worlds” so they play
nicely requires some forethought and give-and-take.
• Having the right mix of skills and backgrounds is a
significant factor for a smooth production.
Print vs. Digital and Form vs. Content
• Considerations for “print” vs. “digital” publications
raised questions and contributed richness to the
form and content of both.
• Taking the “print” world as the paradigm and
following standard copyediting norms, the form of
the paper publication was conceived.
• Awareness that the digital objects (PDFs) would be
available simultaneously as an online, open-access
publication allowed richer citation to be fed back into
the “print” world version(s).
Digitally rich citations in a paper world…
• The online/digital publication provides harvestable
metadata, while the print/paper publication cites
digital equivalents with “forward-thinking” metadata.
• In this way, using the exact same digital objects with
a pre-defined granularity, we were able to cater to the
widest range of audiences, mediums and systems:
– Expectations of “paper”/“print” representations;
– Online, digital, citable, persistent open-access;
– IR harvestable metadata and digital objects.
Launch of the Print and OJS Publications
Launch of the Print and OJS Publications
Launch of the Print and OJS Publications
Statistics
• October 2008 Statistics
Statistics
• November 2008 Statistics
Statistics
Statistics
Working with the ‘look and feel’
If you have some experience working with style
sheets, you will be able to make extensive
customizations to the “look and feel” of your new
journal.
Customizing OJS
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<h3>Editors</h3>
<p><em>Evangelists of Empire?</em> is edited by Amanda Barry, Joanna Cruickshank, Andrew Brown-May and Patricia Grimshaw</p>
<h3>Acknowledgments</h3>
<p>The editors would like to thank the staff of the eScholarship Research Centre - Eve Young, Gavan McCarthy, James Williams and Helen
Morgan - for their generous assistance in producing the website. The editors also thank the Melbourne University Bookshop for producing
the print edition of the collection, and in particular Simon Strong for the cover design.</p>
<h3>Banner Image Credit</h3>
<p>The website banner features a detail from an 'opus sectile' mosaic at St John's Anglican Church, Toorak, Victoria. The mosaic depicts
First Fleet chaplain Richard Johnson's first service on Australian soil, at Port Jackson, New South Wales, in 1788. Used with kind permission
of St John's.</p>
<h3>Buy this Book</h3>
<p>This collection of papers is also available in print form from the Melbourne University Bookshop.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bookshop.unimelb.edu.au/bookshop/p?9780734039682"><em>Evangelists of Empire? Missionaries in Colonial
History</em></a>, Barry et al (eds), Melbourne: School of Historical Studies and the eScholarship Research Centre, The University of
Melbourne, 2008.</p>
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