Abstract
The emergence of networked digital methods of scholarly dissemination has transformed the role of the academic library in the context of the research life cycle. It now plays an important role in the dissemination of research outputs (e.g. through repository management and gold open access publication processing) as well as more traditional acquisition and collection management. The University of Manchester Library and Manchester University Press have developed a strategic relationship to consider how they can work in partnership to support new approaches to scholarly publishing. They have delivered two projects to understand researcher and student needs and to develop tools and services to meet these needs. This work has found that the creation of new journal titles is costly and provides significant resourcing challenges and that support for student journals in particular is mixed amongst senior academic administrators. Research has suggested that there is more value to the University in the provision of training in scholarly publishing than in the creation of new in-house journal titles. Where such titles are created, careful consideration of sustainable business models is vital.
Highlights
Libraries and academic publishers have been part of the same scholarly information ecosystem for centuries
The review recognized the changes taking place in the scholarly landscape and asked that efforts be combined to respond to them. This exposed one of the challenges, which subsequently emerged as a national theme at the University Press Redux conference in Liverpool in 2016.15 Manchester University Press (MUP) and University of Manchester Library (UML) are financed in quite different ways
An early opportunity to work in partnership came in 2013, when Dr Douglas Field, a lecturer in American Literature, approached us about the creation immediate challenges for a Library/Press of a new open access (OA) journal title focusing on the work of the writer and social critic partnership’
Summary
Libraries and academic publishers have been part of the same scholarly information ecosystem for centuries. The traditional life cycle of research stimulated by such collections being converted into new additions to those collections has continued for as long as there have been libraries and university presses. Digital technology has both changed and reinforced that paradigm. This process certainly still exists, and has extended to encompass digital collections These collections may be held in very different ways, and have nothing at all to do with the physical walls or location of the holding library, but the life cycle persists: the research is created, published and either purchased or subscribed to by the library. Anyone can publish (if not necessarily professionally), the celebrities of the modern age are social media stars as much as they are movie stars,[1] and the challenge of working with the public release of information which lacks either filters or an association with trusted brands has heralded the era of ‘fake news’.2
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