Published In

The Serials Librarian

Document Type

Post-Print

Publication Date

1-20-2021

Subjects

Open access publishing, Scholarly publishing, Academic libraries

Abstract

The open access journal Communications in Information Literacy (CIL) began publication in 2007. After ten years of continuous growth, CIL migrated from Online Journals Systems (OJS) and a commercial web host to Portland State’s Digital Commons (bepress) publishing platform, PDXScholar. The presenters provide brief overviews of CIL and PDXScholar, and they detail the challenges and ultimate successes of this multi-institutional model for advancing open access journals and reclaiming control of the scholarly record. They highlight the content migration process from OJS to PDXScholar, post-migration actions to correct metadata, the introduction of functioning DOIs, and coordinating with both free web and commercial indexers to ensure proper access to the newly moved journal. The presenters also discuss the practicalities and the policy implications of this move, particularly in light of Elsevier’s acquisition of bepress. Finally, the presenters advance their partnership as an exemplar of transformational publishing and as a viable, sustainable model for scholars in other fields to emulate.

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© 2020 Christopher Hollister, Karen Bjork & Stewart Brower

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in The Serials Librarian. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in The Serials Librarian.

The conference presentation that the article derived from is located here: https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/33121

DOI

10.1080/0361526X.2021.1863141

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34608

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