Academy Owned Publishing
Academy Owned Publishing
The Academy Owned Scholarly Publishing initiative, led by Kate McCready, BTAA Visiting Program Officer, is working to explore the opportunities for collective action among university-based scholarly publishing programs within the BTAA. By strengthening our production systems for open access knowledge outputs (e.g., journals, monographs), this initiative advances the BTAA鈥檚 Big Collection鈥檚 work to unite the collections of the Big Ten university libraries and to achieve the primary goal of: 鈥淎ny content, from anywhere, to anyone across the Big Ten鈥.now and into the future.鈥
Goals
Transform academic publishing and scholarly communication through:
Providing leadership in the acquisition, publishing, and archiving of open access scholarly content, with a specific emphasis on investigating direction and strategy for developing shared publishing infrastructure and services at scale.
Strengthening the Big Ten鈥檚 collective publishing capacity and discovery environment, while also coordinating attention to and investment in transformative and alternative publishing models.
Investigate and outline a multifaceted, sustainable course of action to strengthen academy-owned publishing for the BTAA.
Pilot Projects
The BTAA libraries and university presses have partnered to develop and brand the BTAA open access ebook collection: a 100-title ebook collection on the University of Michigan鈥檚 Fulcrum platform on the topic of Gender and Sexuality Studies. The and planning is underway for the next phase of the project.
For more information and to get involved, please contact Kate McCready.
Contacts:
Kate McCready
Visiting Program Officer for Academy-Owned
Scholarly Publishing
Library Initiatives
kate.mccready@btaa.org
For help or more information
library@btaa.org