Resources from the Mason Publishing Group

Recent news in Scholarly Communication:

• The Internets are stealing your scholarship!
• Elsevier is buying everything!
• Stanford University Press is winning the internet!

Open Access
Alt. Models
Digital

Open Access

• Assessing copyright of your publications
  • Sherpa Romeo

• Distributing what we can
  • MARS

Publish Open Access

http://publishing.gmu.edu/communication/open-access-publishing-fund/

• Member of DOAJ
• Membership in Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association 

Open Educational Resources

http://publishing.gmu.edu/category/communication/oer/​

• Initial pilot started Spring 2016
• Collaboration between Mason Publishing (Libraries), 4-VA, and Mason Online.

Alternatives: Creative Commons

Licensing options:

• CC-BY :
  • Attribution
• CC-BY-NC :
  • Attribution, Non-Commercial
• CC-BY-ND :
  • Attribution, No Derivatives
• CC-BY-SA :
  • Attribution, Share-Alike

Shifting Economies

Print-based publishing operates within an economics of scarcity, with its systems determined largely by the fact that a limited number of pages, journals, and books can be produced ... Electronic publishing faces no such material scarcity...

However, in a self-multiplying scholarly commons ... what remains scarce are time and attention.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence,

Ch. 1, pp. 37-38 (print)

PressForward

• Problem of an abundance of distributed scholarship.

• Bring the "journal" to the scholarship, rather than the scholarship to the journal.

• Focus attention: If I only read one thing, it should be this.

Shift to "Altmetrics"

How can we assess the importance (influence) of a piece of scholarship?

• Reputation of the Journal?
• Use by popular and scholarly audiences?

Things to Consider

• Who is deciding?
• What is counted?
• To what end?

Look Behind the Curtain:

https://www.altmetric.com/products/free-tools/bookmarklet/

How Mason Publishing is Involved:

• Assign DOIs to digital content
• Assign ORCIDs and help link your content to you

Open Monographs

Suite of studies, funded by Mellon, on the costs of monograph publishing and alternative models.

http://sr.ithaka.org/?p=276785

Direct Author Subventions at University of Michigan and Indiana University

http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/113671

Digital Scholarship Center

Spring 2017

• Currently in Planning Stages
• Resources for Digital Projects
• Consultation Model

Archiving Digital Work

• Interface
• Infrastructure
• Data

https://webrecorder.io/

Thank you!