What’s in a Name? Exploring identity in the field of library journal publishing
INTRODUCTION This paper explores the variability in self-identifying practices of academic libraries engaged in journal publishing and hosting activities. We were interested in how libraries characterized their efforts in this area and looked at whether there is an unspoken threshold for differentia...
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| author | Andrea Kosavic Jacqueline Whyte Appleby Jeanette Hatherill Karen Meijer-Kline |
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| description | INTRODUCTION This paper explores the variability in self-identifying practices of academic libraries engaged in journal publishing and hosting activities. We were interested in how libraries characterized their efforts in this area and looked at whether there is an unspoken threshold for differentiation with respect to publishing-support naming conventions. METHODS Using the Library Publishing Directory, in-depth interviews, and a more widely circulated follow-up survey, the research team examined service offerings, divisions of responsibility, funding, terminology, and semantic associations within publishing, both as an active practice and as an advertised service. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION We aimed to tease out whether there was any sort of tipping point, or inferred rules, around when an institution chose to call the activity either publishing or hosting. We found no particular service, set of services, funding structure, or division of labor that obviously influenced the use of a particular term. Rather than noting a divide between publishing and hosting, participants spoke of both a spectrum and a tiering of work and support, though all emphasized that these models did not describe the quality of the work produced. This paper also discusses how use of the term library publishing creates additional ambiguity in naming practices, and considers some implications for library staff newly immersed in scholarly publishing work. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0a377ebafe4640dba8337a473b3a05e82024-04-04T17:33:17ZengIowa State University Digital PressJournal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication2162-33092018-01-016110.7710/2162-3309.2209What’s in a Name? Exploring identity in the field of library journal publishingAndrea Kosavic0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8863-2683Jacqueline Whyte Appleby1Jeanette Hatherill2Karen Meijer-Kline3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3664-9824York University Kwantlen Polytechnic UniversityINTRODUCTION This paper explores the variability in self-identifying practices of academic libraries engaged in journal publishing and hosting activities. We were interested in how libraries characterized their efforts in this area and looked at whether there is an unspoken threshold for differentiation with respect to publishing-support naming conventions. METHODS Using the Library Publishing Directory, in-depth interviews, and a more widely circulated follow-up survey, the research team examined service offerings, divisions of responsibility, funding, terminology, and semantic associations within publishing, both as an active practice and as an advertised service. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION We aimed to tease out whether there was any sort of tipping point, or inferred rules, around when an institution chose to call the activity either publishing or hosting. We found no particular service, set of services, funding structure, or division of labor that obviously influenced the use of a particular term. Rather than noting a divide between publishing and hosting, participants spoke of both a spectrum and a tiering of work and support, though all emphasized that these models did not describe the quality of the work produced. This paper also discusses how use of the term library publishing creates additional ambiguity in naming practices, and considers some implications for library staff newly immersed in scholarly publishing work.https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article/id/12797/journal hostingjournal publishinglibrary publishing |
| spellingShingle | Andrea Kosavic Jacqueline Whyte Appleby Jeanette Hatherill Karen Meijer-Kline What’s in a Name? Exploring identity in the field of library journal publishing Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication journal hosting journal publishing library publishing |
| title | What’s in a Name? Exploring identity in the field of library journal publishing |
| title_full | What’s in a Name? Exploring identity in the field of library journal publishing |
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| title_full_unstemmed | What’s in a Name? Exploring identity in the field of library journal publishing |
| title_short | What’s in a Name? Exploring identity in the field of library journal publishing |
| title_sort | what s in a name exploring identity in the field of library journal publishing |
| topic | journal hosting journal publishing library publishing |
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