OJS and open access journal publishing.

1. L I S A G O N Z A L E Z
E L E C T R O N I C R E S O U R C E S L I B R A R I A N
Open Access Publishing at a
Small Library: a Case Study

2. New Theology Review
 Published twice a year in
March and September
 Five issues published to
date, including launch
issue in 2012

3. The Old NTR
 Liturgical Press – final issue published November
2011
 A break-even publication for Liturgical Press, WTU
and CTU
 Breaking even with online publication most critical
factor
 Experience with OJS and local, free support second
critical factor favoring online publication –
Theological Librarianship essential as model

4. An Open Access Commitment
 “New Theology Review (NTR) is celebrating its 25th
anniversary in a bold way!...This will be an “open
access” online journal, which means that anyone
anywhere in the world who has access to the Internet
will be able to read the rich contents of NTR free of
charge. We wanted to adopt this format as a matter
of principle, fulfilling the mission of Catholic
Theological Union to serve the global Church.”
Donald Senior, C. P. “A Sign of Hope.” New Theology Review 25,
no. 1 (September 2012).
http://newtheologyreview.org/index.php/ntr/article/view/15.

5. Transition and Launch
 Contract with Liturgical Press ends December 2011
 Journal website launched as placeholder for future
online journal in February 2012
 Library director invited to serve as co-editor in March
2012
 Purchased Adobe InDesign around March/April 2012
 Server and OJS software installed with the help of local
IT and support from ATLA during Summer 2012
 Copyeditor/proofreader hired June 2012; layout for first
issue by library director
 First online issue published in September 2012

6. Defining Workflows
 Library as publisher: technical support, training and
promotion
 Editorial board: manage submissions and peer
review process, copyediting, proofreading and layout
editing
 Library director in dual role as editor/publisher

7. Preparing the Editorial Team
 Open access policies modeled after Theological
Librarianship journal
 Two official training sessions, plus one on one
training for editors
 Editors and journal staff needed to adapt to OJS
roles, and vice versa

8. Expanding, Maintaining and Promoting
 Digitized back issues in-house
 Registration for DOIs
 LOCKSS participation
 Sherpa/ROMEO listing
 DOAJ listing
 Licensing terms for metadata established
 Library discovery systems – cataloging, knowledge
base, indexing

9. Future Plans
 Digitizing complete back issues
 Offer publication services at different levels for
additional journals
 Offer monograph publication services

10. Lessons Learned
 Define what services you will offer, and who will
offer them
 Define what you will require of your customers
 Understand the difference between the learning
curve, the learning cycle and the publication cycle in
terms of time and workflow
 Understand motivations for supporting open access
journal publication from both the library and the
faculty perspective