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		<title>SOPA, PIPA, and the AAUP</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Givler Every time I see the acronyms SOPA and PIPA I think they should be characters in a Swedish children&#8217;s book, but in fact they are, respectively, the Stop Online Piracy Act (HR 3261) and the Protect IP Act (S 968), two bills in Congress with the aim of giving the Department of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaupdigitaldigest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266841&amp;post=193&amp;subd=aaupdigitaldigest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>By Peter Givler</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>Every time I see the acronyms SOPA and PIPA I think they should be characters in a Swedish children&#8217;s book, but in fact they are, respectively, the Stop Online Piracy Act (HR 3261) and the Protect IP Act (S 968), two bills in Congress with the aim of giving the Department of Justice tools to take action against offshore &#8220;rogue&#8221; websites &#8212; websites whose sole purpose is trafficking in pirated intellectual property.  Think Pirate Bay.</p>
<p>The primary tool for doing so would be to put U.S. companies that do business with such websites &#8212; advertisers, credit card companies, etc. &#8212; on notice that they were facilitating online piracy, with the aim of drying up revenue and so eliminating the commercial motive for building and maintaining rogue websites.  The bills have become the target of a spirited internet campaign seeking to block their passage over fears that they would stifle innovation and interfere with freedom of speech.</p>
<p>SOPA has been the primary target of this campaign, and its most controversial feature, domain name blocking for rogue websites, has now been withdrawn so that the issue can be further studied (see Lamar Smith link below).  The White House weighed in on Saturday expressing the Administration&#8217;s concerns about the bills, while at the same time urging all parties to come together and seek a solution to the serious problem of offshore online piracy.</p>
<p>AAUP did not take a position on SOPA.  Last December, with the Board&#8217;s approval, I did send a letter to Senators Reid, Schumer and Gillebrand supporting PIPA; the text of that letter has been distributed to the AAUP membership via e-mail.</p>
<p>To help AAUP members evaluate the controversy surrounding these bills here are links to the <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3261:" target="_blank">SOPA </a>and <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c112:1:./temp/~c112FsjRLN::" target="_blank">PIPA</a> bills themselves, to the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/01/14/obama-administration-responds-we-people-petitions-sopa-and-online-piracy" target="_blank">White House statement</a>, and to statements <a href="http://leahy.senate.gov/press/press_releases/release/?id=f57d456b-c853-4634-8900-14ceb4c4dfda" target="_blank">from Senator Leahy</a> about PIPA, <a href="http://lamarsmith.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=274902" target="_blank">Representative Smith</a> about SOPA, and from <a href="http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Repubs-Letter-to-Reid-Jan-13-2012.pdf" target="_blank">six Republican Senators</a> urging Senator Reid to allow consideration of PIPA to go forward without a motion for cloture.  (Cloture would not only limit the time for debate on the bill, but would also restrict consideration of amendments to those filed before cloture was invoked.)</p>
<p>Happy reading!</p>
<p><em><strong>Peter Givler is the Executive Director of the Association of American University Presses</strong></em></p>
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		<title>A Primer on Digital Object Identifiers by Carol Anne Meyer of CrossRef</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erich van Rijn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the first installment in my series on digital standards for the Digest, I asked Carol Anne Meyer, the Director of Business Development and Marketing for CrossRef , to answer a few questions about digital object identifiers.  With several ebook initiatives going live that are geared specifically toward the delivery of content that is accessed through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaupdigitaldigest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266841&amp;post=174&amp;subd=aaupdigitaldigest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the first installment in my series on digital standards for the Digest, I asked Carol Anne Meyer, the Director of Business Development and Marketing for<a title="CrossRef" href="http://www.crossref.org"> CrossRef </a>, to answer a few questions about digital object identifiers.  With several ebook initiatives going live that are geared specifically toward the delivery of content that is accessed through academic libraries, it is critical to apply a standards-based approach to the stable identification of digital book content to enable increased discoverability and usage.  This piece is intended to give AAUP members (and others) a basic overview of the DOI, and I encourage those who are interested in a deeper dive into the topic of DOIs to take a look at some of CrossRef&#8217;s recorded <a title="CrossRef Webinars" href="http://crossref.org/01company/webinars.html" target="_blank">webinars</a>.</p>
<p><strong>1) Simply put what is a DOI and what purpose does it serve?</strong></p>
<p>CM: A DOI is a Digital Object Identifier. It serves as a unique and persistent identifier or address for digital content on the web. DOIs remain the same even if the underlying address or URL for the content changes. The primary purpose that DOIs serve for scholarly content is to enable reference linking so that readers can click from the references of a scholarly monograph, article, or reference work directly to the content being referenced. DOIs also support services like <a title="Cited-By Linking" href="http://www.crossref.org/citedby/index.html" target="_blank">Cited-By Linking</a>, where users can see other relevant content that cites a particular work. Many book publishers are increasingly concerned about the discoverability of their content. DOIs can increase traffic to book content through reference citations, through secondary databases, and increasingly through third party discovery tools that use CrossRef metadata.</p>
<p><strong>2) What is CrossRef&#8217;s role in the assignment and maintenance of DOIs, and what are the first steps publishers should take in setting up a relationship with CrossRef?</strong></p>
<p>CM: The International DOI Foundation (IDF) appoints registration agencies (RAs) to assign DOIs. CrossRef is the oldest and largest IDF RA. About 94% of all the DOIs that have been assigned have come through CrossRef. CrossRef DOIs are DOIs assigned to scholarly publications:  books, book chapters, reference entries, journal articles, conference proceedings, reports, theses, data sets, and even components like individual tables or graphics.</p>
<p>CrossRef maintains a web service that publishers use to deposit bibliographic metadata, including the URL and the DOI of their content. CrossRef works with the handle infrastructure at the <a title="Corporation for National Research Initiatives" href="http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/" target="_blank">Corporation for National Research Initiatives</a> (CNRI) to make the DOI live, which means that a user clicking on a DOI link is redirected to the URL deposited at CrossRef. CrossRef publishers promise to update their metadata if it changes so that any existing references to the DOI still work even if the URL changes.</p>
<p>CrossRef also provides lookup services so that publishers and affiliated organizations can put CrossRef DOI links into their services and tools. These links increase traffic to the member publishers&#8217; content.</p>
<p>Publishers and affiliates add DOI links to the references in their content by submitting metadata queries to the CrossRef system. They get back the DOI that they can use to link to the content of that reference.</p>
<p>CrossRef is a not-for-profit trade association of publishers. In order to participate in the CrossRef DOI system, publishers need to become members of the association. This entails signing a membership agreement and paying an annual fee based on publishing revenue. The membership agreement lists the obligations of all CrossRef members. CrossRef is not just a technical linking solution, it is also a social contract among publishers, and that is why it works.</p>
<p><strong> 3) Does a DOI differ from a URL, and if so, how?</strong></p>
<p>CM: Yes. A DOI redirects users to the URL where content lives on the web. DOIs are designed to be persistent. Imagine that you are a book publisher, and you decide to host your book content directly on your own web site. The full text of each book has its own URL. This is fine. But then in a few years, you decide that the web site you created is starting to look a little dated, and you choose to migrate all of your content to a newly-formed multi-publisher consortium of ebooks, and you want to shut down your old content site. If you participate in the CrossRef DOI system, you would not have disseminated the actual URLs of your content publically; instead, people would use CrossRef DOIs as the web address. So you can move your content to <a title="JSTOR" href="http://www.jstor.org" target="_blank">JSTOR</a>, or <a title="Project Muse" href="http://muse.jhu.edu/" target="_blank">Project Muse</a>, or <a title="Cambridge University Press" href="http://www.cambridge.org/home/home/item5655304/?site_locale=en_US" target="_blank">Cambridge University Press</a>, or <a title="Oxford University Press" href="http://www.oup.com" target="_blank">Oxford University Press</a>, or <a title="HighWire" href="http://highwire.stanford.edu/" target="_blank">Highwire</a> or some other hosting platform. As long as you update the new URL at CrossRef, everybody who ever had the DOI for the content can still access that same content without getting a URL not found error message.</p>
<p>You may see DOIs expressed in the form &#8220;doi:10.xxxx/kjlkjljlj&#8217; on the web. We have recently revised our CrossRef DOI display guidelines to encourage people to always display CrossRef DOIs as URLs, for example in the form &#8220;http://dx.doi.org/10.xxxx/kjkjlili&#8221; We have made this change so that people who may not know what DOIs are can still use them by just clicking on the link, or right clicking to copy the link.  The change also makes it easy for machines to recognizes a DOI and to access services like linked data available through CrossRef. And displaying DOIs in the http:/dx.doi.org URL format will also ensure that they work on web-aware mobile devices.</p>
<p><strong>4) Can a DOI be assigned to content that&#8217;s hosted on more than one platform?  If so, how does that work?</strong></p>
<p>CM: Yes. CrossRef supports Multiple Resolution for CrossRef DOIs. The publisher works with our technical staff to create an interim page that pops up when a user clicks a link. That interim page gives the user the choice of platforms to access the data.</p>
<p>Another solution that helps users find the appropriate copy of a document hosted in multiple places is library link resolvers. Both <a title="Serials Solutions" href="http://www.serialssolutions.com/" target="_blank">Serials Solutions</a> and <a title="ExLibris" href="http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/" target="_blank">ExLibris</a> are CrossRef Service providers, and they use CrossRef DOIs to direct users of their systems to the local copy of the content based on a library&#8217;s holdings.</p>
<p><strong>5) Should a publisher assign and deposit DOIs themselves, or should they utilize a service provider to assign DOIs on their behalf?  Are there pros and cons to letting someone else assign and deposit your DOIs?</strong></p>
<p>CM: The answer depends on the technical expertise and resources available to the publisher. For significant volumes of content, publishers interact with the CrossRef system through batch XML file transfers. We have found that for some smaller publishers, this can be a burden. CrossRef does have more manual tools such as our Web Deposit Form, Guest Query, and Simple Text Query forms. This requires that somebody sit at the form and copy and paste data to and from the tool.</p>
<p>If this is all too much, publishers may choose to work with a Sponsoring Publisher (this is a member of CrossRef that is also authorized to deposit and query on behalf of other publishers) or a CrossRef Service Provider (a vendor that provides CrossRef services to publishers). The advantage to working with one of these organizations is that they have experience in working with CrossRef and they understand the guidelines and obligations. That expertise may come at a cost, so publishers will have to weigh the cost and benefits of doing it themselves against that of using a third party. We have many publishers using both approaches that are happy with their arrangements.</p>
<p><strong>6) How are DOIs used by the research community?  What is the role of the DOI in bibliographic citations?</strong></p>
<p>CM: The most basic use of CrossRef DOIs by researchers is to click on them and be directed to the content they represent. An increasing number of authors, based on recommendations from the major style guides, are including DOIs in their citation lists, in order to help with accurate production, and ultimately to ensure readers can find the referenced content.</p>
<p>Some more innovative uses are also emerging. <a title="PLoS" href="http://www.plog.org" target="_blank">The Public Library of Science</a> (PLoS) relies heavily on CrossRef DOIs to generate their Article Level Metrics. Secondary database include CrossRef DOIs in their citation records to enable links to the full text. Paper and citation management services like <a title="Talis" href="http://www.talis.com" target="_blank">Talis</a>, <a title="Mendeley" href="http://http://www.mendeley.com/" target="_blank">Mendeley</a>, <a title="EasyBib" href="http://www.easybib.com/" target="_blank">EasyBib</a> and <a title="PubGet" href="http://pubget.com/" target="_blank">PubGet</a> use CrossRef DOIs to help researchers located and link to relevant information.</p>
<p>Next year, CrossRef will roll out a service called CrossMark which will use the CrossRef DOI to help researchers discover if updates have been made to an item of scholalry content and where to find information about such an update.</p>
<p><strong>7) What have the challenges been in maintaining the DOI standard over the last few years, and are there any aspects of the standard that are evolving that presses should be aware of? </strong></p>
<p>CM: The DOI has been a <a title="NISO" href="http://www.niso.org" target="_blank">National Information Standards Organization</a> (NISO) standard for many years, and more recently has been approved as an <a title="ISO" href="http://www.iso.org" target="_blank">International Standards Organization</a> (ISO) standard. These standards have been very stable.</p>
<p>As I mentioned, CrossRef has recently changed its display guidelines. This recommendation has been the first change of this nature in the history of CrossRef&#8217;s existence. We anticipate that it will take CrossRef members and affiliates some time to change their systems to support this new recommendation, and we plan to work closely with the style guides so that they too can update their recommended citation formats to be consistent with these guidelines.</p>
<p>The biggest challenge to the success of the CrossRef DOI system is probably the compliance of the individual publisher members. Most of the 50 million CrossRef DOIs are stable and direct as they should, due to the cooperation of the publishers who own the content. Our challenge now is to provide better support to smaller and less technically savvy publishers to ensure that every CrossRef DOI remains stable and useful.</p>
<p><strong>8) Do you have any advice for book people who are just getting started?</strong></p>
<p>CM: Remember that metadata is marketing. Laura Dawson of <a title="Firebrand Technologies" href="http://www.firebrandtech.com" target="_blank">Firebrand Technologies</a>, and a book metadata expert, recently compared good metadata with dental floss. It isn&#8217;t romantic, she said, but it makes everything work. Scholarly book metadata should include CrossRef DOIs at the title level, the chapter level, and the reference entry level to improve its importance and visibility in the scholarly communications environment. Services such as the recently announced Book Citation Index from Thomson Reuters make it clear that the better the metadata, the more accessible the content. This is true now, and it will become even more important in the future.</p>
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		<title>Ebooks: It&#8217;s Not Just Pushing a Button</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred Nachbaur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katie Sweeney, assistant marketing manager at Fordham University Press, attended an ebooks seminar recently, courtesy of Brenna McLaughlin of AAUP and Ted Hill, President of THA Consulting. I asked her to write up her notes for a blog post to Digital Commons. Instead of rehashing her notes verbatim, Katie came up with this clever assessment. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaupdigitaldigest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266841&amp;post=168&amp;subd=aaupdigitaldigest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Katie Sweeney, assistant marketing manager at Fordham University Press, attended an ebooks seminar recently, courtesy of Brenna McLaughlin of AAUP and Ted Hill, President of THA Consulting. I asked her to write up her notes for a blog post to Digital Commons. Instead of rehashing her notes verbatim, Katie came up with this clever assessment. I think she hit the nail right on the head. We have been having a lot of fun assigning names to the different types of people in our office. Enjoy!</p>
<p>If I was a Director of a small press and I attended the Publisher’s Launch Conference: eBooks for Everyone Else, I’m not sure I would have taken the leap to create an eBooks Program.  However, that’s why organizations have different types of people.</p>
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<li>You need the “visionary”—the person who sees the big picture.</li>
<li>You need the “techie”—the person who is willing to learn the technology, or at least understand enough of it to make an informed decision on the conversion company to hire.</li>
<li>You need the “negotiator”—the person who can get a contract on the table, bargain for better terms, and sign on the dotted line.</li>
<li>You need someone who’s “OCD.” They’re the person who will care enough about nitpicking every tiny piece of metadata and scrutinize the finished eBook.</li>
<li>You need the “worker bee,” although an entire beehive would be useful. This will be the person who knows the theory of how the workflow should operate, but will actually execute it.</li>
<li>You need the “naysayer.” The one who hates change and will be taken kicking and screaming into eBooks. They will be a hindrance, but they will probably spot half a dozen problems that you didn’t anticipate. Foresight is key.</li>
<li>You need the “scrooge” to nickel and dime your budget because contrary to popular belief, eBooks don’t just appear from established content. They’re another production stream in their own right.</li>
<li>You need everyone else who makes a regular book happen, make it happen for an eBook.</li>
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<p>Once you’ve identified these people in your organization, the best thing you can do is educate them because there’s a lot to learn.</p>
<p>Like everything, there are advantages and disadvantages to eBooks. There is 24/7 availability. eBooks are never out of stock and there are no returns. Publishers can experiment with price points, create enhancements to files, or rapidly respond to marketplace events. Bonus: there is no physical inventory to ship or store. On the flip side, the disadvantages include, but are not limited to dealing with DRM, the technical file delivery, piracy, quality assurance, fluid business models, and trying to compute royalties.</p>
<p>Another hurdle is the change in the editorial and production workflows. Will you use an XML workflow at the front end of the editing process? In simplistic terms, this means creating a template and guidelines that copyeditors will use for tagging the manuscript. Further down the line, this will rear its head in production. You are now focused on all things “e,” but can your printers accept these files to make a print book? It’s a give and take between the print business we still need to do and eBusiness we want to do.</p>
<p>Publishers Launch also included some great nitty-gritty topics, such as metadata for eBooks. If you shop on Zappos, you know the importance of locating a perfect kitten heels in black patent leather in less than 20 seconds. Finding your book needs to be that easy.</p>
<p>Books covers were also a source of discussion. Traditionally, a great cover was thought to draw people from 20 feet. Today, finding a good book online is more about search and discovery. A book cover may be the size of a postage stamp. For publishers, this might mean creating a cover for a print book and creating a cover that is smaller, yet still distinguishable online.</p>
<p>Digital Identifiers are also expanding. Besides ISBNs, there is the ISTC —the International Standard Text Code that is a unique identifier for text. That means it belongs to the textual work, not the edition of a book. It is assigned to related works of the same content. There is also the ISNI—the International Standard Name Identifier. It identifies public identities, such as authors making it easier to locate all titles that an author may publish, regardless of the publisher.</p>
<p>And, once you’ve got your eBook made, you’ve got to figure out how to distribute it. Are you doing it all inhouse? That means you need to make sure you have the right type of file and negotiated agreements with every company you want to sell to. Are you hiring a distributor that will take one file and send it to their existing distribution agreements? The variations on these questions are endless. You need to explore you options and find the best fit for your organization.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that creating eBooks will touch all areas of your organization. It infiltrates editorial, production, marketing and sales. It’s not a simple task. One person doesn’t make it all happen. It’s a coordinated group effort that requires a strong leader and a dynamic team. Always have meetings to regroup. You might get frustrated, but you can always improve. For a small organization it can be a challenge. Some days it’s Survivor: Fordham Press, but every once in a while you hit tropical island status. That’s the day you hang up your hammock and take out your Kindle, your Nook, or your iPad and just read.</p>
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		<title>Standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erich van Rijn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you think of standards, what comes to mind? Maybe it’s a few bars of “Autumn Leaves” or “Star Eyes” or any number of other great jazz compositions from the early 20th century. However, in the coming weeks I’ll try to put a new spin on standards in the AAUP’s Digital Digest. Starting in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaupdigitaldigest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266841&amp;post=151&amp;subd=aaupdigitaldigest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>When you think of standards, what comes to mind? Maybe it’s a few bars of “Autumn Leaves” or “Star Eyes” or any number of other great jazz compositions from the early 20th century.</p>
<p>However, in the coming weeks I’ll try to put a new spin on standards in the AAUP’s Digital Digest. Starting in the next couple of weeks, The Digital Digest will feature a new series of blog postings that will present overviews of standards for digital content and metadata. As our businesses move increasingly online, university presses are being required to become conversant with the standards for both digital content and metadata that are currently driving the growth of the various digital sales channels. Our colleagues who work (or have worked) for presses that have journals businesses may have already had to dip into the arcane language of digital standards and the acronyms that accompany them. (NLM, DOI, MARC, COUNTER—where does the alphabet soup end?!) But, for books, the current situation is still somewhat unsettled.</p>
<p>The first of these posts will be an interview with Carol Anne Meyer, the Director of Business Development for <a title="CrossRef" href="http://www.crossref.org" target="_blank">CrossRef</a>, which is the DOI (digital object identifier) registration agency in the United States. For future entries, I plan to focus on ISBNs (with particular emphasis on digital ISBNs) and the newly unveiled EPUB 3 standard for e-book content. The aim of these articles is to give a manageable overview of some of these complicated issues for those with passing familiarity and to give those who at least know what the acronym standards for a little bit of a deeper understanding. I will try to do each of these in a Q&amp;A fashion with members of other industry associations, outside vendors, and our trading partners.</p>
<p>While digital standards are admittedly not the sexiest topic in the whole world, they have a deep impact on the discoverability and marketability of our content. While many of our partners are still using a mix of proprietary and standards-based mechanisms for ingesting and distributing content and metadata, many have either adapted current standards or are migrating towards a standards-based approach. Digital standards issues have fairly broad implications for publishers. They can impact everything from how contracts are worded to how you run your royalty systems to how you manage your production workflows. So, it&#8217;s absolutely critical that we all become conversant in the language of standards. I hope you all find this series useful, and please leave a comment, if you have suggestions for future topics and/or interview subjects.</p>
<p>Also, thanks to the Digital Publishing Committee for allowing me to use this blog as the forum for this series.</p>
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		<title>The Long Civil Rights Movement: Reflections on The Online Pilot and Thoughts on Enhanced E-books</title>
		<link>http://aaupdigitaldigest.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/the-long-civil-rights-movement-reflections-on-the-online-pilot-and-thoughts-on-enhanced-e-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcerruti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out the blog at &#8220;Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement&#8221; for Sylvia Miller&#8217;s reflections on their recently-ended online pilot. In the first of two posts, she writes: After 14 months, the Long Civil Rights Movement Project’s pilot online collection officially closed its test period on July 18, 2011.  You can still see it at https://lcrm.lib.unc.edu/voice/works, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaupdigitaldigest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266841&amp;post=145&amp;subd=aaupdigitaldigest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check out the blog at <a href="https://lcrm.lib.unc.edu/blog/" target="_blank">&#8220;Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement&#8221;</a> for Sylvia Miller&#8217;s reflections on their recently-ended online pilot.</p>
<p>In the <a href="https://lcrm.lib.unc.edu/blog/index.php/2011/08/04/reflecting-on-lcrm-online-pilot/" target="_blank">first</a> of two posts, she writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>After 14 months, the Long Civil Rights Movement Project’s pilot online collection officially closed its test period on July 18, 2011.  You can still see it at <a href="https://lcrm.lib.unc.edu/voice/works" target="_blank">https://lcrm.lib.unc.edu/voice/works</a>, although project staff will no longer grant premium access to the full text of the experimental site’s 87 titles (books, articles, papers, and reports) to those who register except by special request.  Registration will continue to give any user the ability to see open-access content and comment on it at the paragraph level.</p>
<p>The commenting feature was the focus of the experiment.  During the test period, the number of registered users grew beyond our expectations, finishing at 776.  The number of annotations contributed by users was also impressive, finishing at 607.</p></blockquote>
<p>In addition to these valuable statistics, Miller shares other learnings from the pilot, including valuable information on contributor behaviors, use of archives in teaching, and <a href="https://lcrm.lib.unc.edu/blog/index.php/2011/08/05/enhanced-e-books-and-portal-books/" target="_blank">enhanced e-books</a>. In her <a href="https://lcrm.lib.unc.edu/blog/index.php/2011/08/05/enhanced-e-books-and-portal-books/" target="_blank">second post</a>, Miller links to a number of other projects also experimenting in the area of archives, enhanced e-books, and &#8220;portal books.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>AAUP announces results of most recent digital publishing survey</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 21:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One the eve of its annual conference, the Association of American University Presses has launched a redesigned website and released the results of its second digital book publishing survey in as many years. The press release announcing the report can be read here, and the report itself is available for download. In addition to providing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaupdigitaldigest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266841&amp;post=139&amp;subd=aaupdigitaldigest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One the eve of its <a href="http://aaupnet.org/events-a-conferences/annual-meeting/aaup-2011">annual conference</a>, the Association of American University Presses has launched a redesigned <a href="http://aaupnet.org/index.php">website</a> and released the results of its second digital book publishing survey in as many years. The press release announcing the report can be read <a href="http://www.aaupnet.org/news-a-publications/news/421-aaup-digital-book-publishing-survey-report-released">here</a>, and the report itself is available for <a href="http://www.aaupnet.org/images/stories/data/2011digitalsurveyreport.pdf">download</a>.</p>
<p>In addition to providing interesting statistical breakdown as to the number of presses participating in a wide variety of digital publication efforts, it also reveals the widespread (unavoidable?) use of digital technology in traditional print publishing, particularly print-on-demand.</p>
<p>For most presses  (53 of 71 who participated in the survey) revenue from sales of electronic editions remains below 3%. It will be interesting to see how/if that changes in the coming year, particularly since the percentage of presses now reporting as participating in site licenses to libraries has nearly doubled (from 34% in the 2009-2010 survey to 65% in the Spring 2011 survey).</p>
<p>Overall, finding a working business model and creating systems to best allocate limited resources remain the biggest obstacles faced by university presses when it comes to digital publishing. As the report clearly demonstrates, despite these concerns, AAUP member presses are actively and enthusiastically embracing the possibilities. And if history is any indicator, following this weekend&#8217;s annual conference, &#8220;The Next Wave: Toward a Culture of Collaboration,&#8221; that enthusiasm will be redoubled throughout the summer.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Guest Blogger Lenny Allen The title of the classic Philip K. Dick story asks whether androids dream of electric sheep. I don’t know the answer to that particular question, but I do know that we’re all&#8211;at this very moment, asleep or awake&#8211;dreaming of a digital monograph platform that is financially viable, intuitive, sustainable from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaupdigitaldigest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266841&amp;post=126&amp;subd=aaupdigitaldigest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;">By Guest Blogger Lenny Allen</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;">The title of the <a title="Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" href="http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_androids.html" target="_blank">classic Philip K. Dick </a>story asks whether androids dream of electric sheep. I don’t know the answer to that particular question, but I do know that we’re all&#8211;at this very moment, asleep or awake&#8211;dreaming of a digital monograph platform that is financially viable, intuitive, sustainable from the perspective of a rapidly shifting market environment, and adaptable enough to be able to meet both the short and long-term needs of scholarly research at all levels as well as the development of new business and acquisition models.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;">Our shared mission dictates that we disseminate scholarly content as widely as possible. But how best to fulfill this mission and meet the ongoing needs of academic research all while satisfying the above criteria? Simply publishing our content in electronic format is no longer enough.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><a title="Oxford Scholarship Online" href="http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/home" target="_blank">Oxford Scholarship Online</a>, launched nearly a decade ago and conceived of when ebooks were in what was then a virtually embryonic phase of development, has blazed a trail that is only now being followed in the marketplace. The use of XML and the precise nature of the text tagging it provided was an early and fundamental decision and has been instrumental to OSO’s success.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;">XML provides us the ability to do more than give users what is essentially a static “picture” of a book, offering instead a rich<span style="color:navy;">, </span>robust text that meets the needs of scholarly research today and for the foreseeable future. In spite of all the rapid technological developments and the ensuing seismic shifts in the market, one thing has remained constant:  the nature and methodology of scholarly research. This is often lost in the clamor of our current discussion so it’s worth reminding ourselves from time to time that this is at the very heart of what we do and why we do it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;">As OSO now evolves into <a title="About University Press Scholarship Online" href="http://aboutupso.com/introduction/" target="_blank">University Press Scholarship Online</a> and we begin the process of including other university press content on our platform, &#8212; see our recently launched pilot partner <a title="Fordham Scholarship Online" href="http://www.fordhamscholarship.com" target="_blank">Fordham Scholarship Online</a>&#8211;we’re more focused than ever on the viability of the monograph as a key medium of scholarly communication. The ability to conduct precisely targeted searches across multiple presses within the same platform is an exciting development and one that promises to do much in the way of advancing scholarly research. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;">XML is what makes that long-held dream a fully-functioning reality. Rather than merely replicating the confining linearity of the print book usage experience, XML instead offers accurate search-and-discoverability tools that greatly enhance research. Even in its latest incarnation, PDF cannot replicate the advantages provided by XML tagging, which identifies each piece of data and allows it to be found in the context of the search being made. By contrast, PDF searches are analogous to those made on the open web. Improvements made recently to PDF are all &#8216;bolt-on&#8217; pieces of functionality applied to something which is intrinsically static. XML, in contrast, is designed from the ground up as a dynamic, repurposeable method of managing sophisticated data. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;">Students, researchers, and scholars are becoming ever more sophisticated consumers of electronic content. We need only look to the latest generation of discoverability services for evidence of the absolute importance of feature-rich metadata. In the newly dawning era of demand-driven acquisition (aka Patron Driven Acquisition) the discoverability of content has become of paramount importance. If the new formula for library acquisitions can be posited as “access = purchase<span style="color:navy;">,</span>” no academic publisher can afford to exert less than a herculean effort at ensuring their content discoverability. The higher the quality of the XML tagging, the easier it becomes to discover the content users are looking for amid the ocean of online information, much of which is lacking in the authority guaranteed by the peer-review process.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;">OSO, UPSO, and all other Oxford online products have been built under the umbrella of a digital strategy that is in many ways dependent on the XML format. We continue to believe that will hold true going forward and that XML provides enormous benefits to researchers and consumers of scholarly content&#8211;our own and that of the presses with whom we partner on the UPSO platform.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><em>Lenny Allen is Director of Sales, Wholesale &amp; Online, Oxford University Press. More about University Press Scholarship Online can be found <a href="http://aboutupso.com/introduction/" target="_blank">here</a>.</em></span></p>
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		<title>Orange Grove Texts Plus&#8211;Open Access Textbook Publishing at the University Press of Florida</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Guest Blogger Meredith Morris Babb, Director of the University Press of Florida Many presses are experimenting with Open Access (OA), primarily in the scholarly journal/monograph worlds. At the University Press of Florida (UPF), we have formed a number of alliances to explore OA and textbook use.  In Florida, as in 37 other states, legislation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaupdigitaldigest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266841&amp;post=120&amp;subd=aaupdigitaldigest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By Guest Blogger Meredith Morris Babb, Director of the University Press of Florida</p>
<p>Many presses are experimenting with Open Access (OA), primarily in the scholarly journal/monograph worlds. At the University Press of Florida (UPF), we have formed a number of alliances to explore OA and textbook use.  In Florida, as in 37 other states, legislation is in place condemning the high cost of higher education texts. Some states, such as Ohio, have gone so far as to create a grant program that will reward faculty who write an OA textbook. UPF has decided to jump into this game, as a way of generating revenue, but also to serve the higher purpose of providing quality, peer-reviewed texts to students and faculty at a fraction of the current cost.</p>
<p>Here is how it works: an OA textbook is created and placed into an OA repository as a PDF. That PDF is free to any other repository, and can be downloaded infinite number of times for free. All OA texts use a form of Creative Commons License to limit commercial use, but authors must allow for adaptations with attribution. A professor selects an OA text, the students download the work from the repository and away we go. I will get to the more nuanced aspects of this in a bit.</p>
<p>Four partners are in play with our OA text site, Orange Grove Text <em>Plus</em> (OGT+). All are critical to the success of the new endeavor and are dedicated to forging this path together. They include UPF, Integrated Book Technologies (IBT), the Orange Grove (OG), and WebAssign. UPF provides developmental editing, copy editing, typesetting, design, production, metadata production, ISBN assignment, print distribution, and marketing. IBT hosts the shopping cart, pre-flights and stores all the print-ready PDF files, and generates print-on-demand versions as they are ordered. OG is Florida&#8217;s OA repository, originally created for distance learning resources by the division of state colleges. It is open to all student and faculty in the state. OG hosts the non-print PDF files, manages all the metadata for searchability, creates the background structure that allows an OA text to be pulled directly into a university or college&#8217;s learning management system, and is the harvester that seeks out additional OA texts. WebAssign provides digital, on-line homework and testing capabilities. Having worked for many years with many higher ed textbook publishers, they recognize the sea change that is coming with OA textbooks.</p>
<p>So what makes OGT+ unique from say, Connexions?  We provide the peer review, editorial, and design components missing from their create-your-own-text site. The Orange Grove customizes the metadata so that a professor or student can search for a book using Florida’s State University System’s common course numbering system. IBT can print and ship within 24-28 hours after the book is purchased. We assign ISBNs and have a standard retail discount schedule that allows bookstores to purchase directly from UPF (rather than through the shopping cart created for individual users), which benefits many students on aid packages who must buy their books from a retailer with a special Purchase Card.</p>
<p>The current iteration of OGT+ reflects the lessons learned from an ongoing successful experiment to create a basal text in calculus. Last year, the provost at the University of Florida provided one-time seed money to the UF Department of Mathematics. Faculty were given release time to prepare a text book that exactly followed their lectures. Problems and examples were sometimes drawn from existing OA texts. A first draft was test-taught in the honors calculus class last fall. WebAssign, who was already working with UF and their old text, help them create a new set of exercises for class room use and reduced their fee to students. This spring, every calculus class at UF is using the beta version of the text, and all students in the class are charged a $25 fee that goes back to the department for future updates, additional material, and release time to prepare volumes for Calculus II and III. Along the way, UPF had the text peer-reviewed and designed, and provided PDFs to both the Orange Grove and IBT. There are 912 students enrolled this spring in the beta test semester, and as of February 28 we had had 1,247 downloads of the PDF. As of this writing, we have yet to receive a firm number of the number of students that have chosen to hit the “buy this book” button, but research shows us that somewhere between 65-70% of student want both the pdf and the download, even when they start the semester with the PDF only.</p>
<p>Right now, the onus of recovering UPF’s operating costs resides with the students who purchase the print edition. Not fair at all, so we will be sharing the in the revenue from the fee system starting next semester.</p>
<p>Now imagine this: what if 4-5 university presses got together and each developed three general education texts for OA use? All of sudden, those 5 presses have not 3 but 15 OA texts that can be used by their students. With an OA fee and a non-returnable POD print version, there is one potential hefty source of steady revenue.</p>
<p>UPF is in the processing of asking the State University System to make OGT+ part of each Florida university’s strategic plan. This is already the case in the state and community colleges. With more universities moving to a resource centered management finances these texts will be even more attractive to a department also looking for revenue streams. And university presses move into the digital age with their original missions—to create texts for use on their campuses—intact.  What goes around. . . .</p>
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		<title>Towards a Sustainable Digital Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, the Association of American University Presses issued a report entitled Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses. More than a year in the making, and an excellent example of the kinds of cooperation among presses long fostered by the AAUP, it offers an in-depth look at a wide variety of experiments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaupdigitaldigest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266841&amp;post=115&amp;subd=aaupdigitaldigest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Earlier today, the Association of American University Presses issued a report entitled <a href="http://aaupnet.org/resources/reports/business_models/aaupbusinessmodels2011.pdf" target="_blank">Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses.</a> More than a year in the making, and an excellent example of the kinds of cooperation among presses long fostered by the AAUP, it offers an in-depth look at a wide variety of experiments in various stages of implementation by a broad number of member presses.  It also provides a succinct overview of why academic publishers (still) matter in the academy, and according to at least one early reviewer, “It would be irresponsible for any university administrator with oversight of a press to fail to read this.” (Joe Esposito writing for <a href="http://aaupnet.org/resources/reports/business_models/aaupbusinessmodels2011.pdf" target="_blank">the Scholarly Kitchen</a>).</p>
<p>The release of the report is sure to generate much discussion. It also provides a springboard for the AAUP’s Digital Publishing Committee (Laura Cerruti, California, Chair; Emily Arkin, Harvard; Sharon Casteel, Texas; Krista Coulson, Wisconsin; Jake Furbush, MIT, Dennis Lloyd, Florida; Fred Nachbaur, Fordham, Patti O’Shea, Chicago; and Tony Sanfilippo, Penn State) to roll out the next phase of its communications plan for the AAUP membership.</p>
<p>For the past few months, we’ve been analyzing the results of last year’s electronic survey, and polling chairs of other AAUP committees to identify the issues most in the minds of AAUP members. For the next several months, we’ll host a series of guest blogs focused on broadly defined topics. For March, the theme is “New Business Models.”</p>
<p>Take some time (if you haven’t already) to <a href="http://aaupnet.org/resources/reports/business_models/aaupbusinessmodels2011.pdf">read the report</a>. Let us know if you want to learn more about any of these new models, and we’ll see if we can commission a posting from someone involved in the project. Several guests have already agreed to create short, informal blog posts about their experiments, and these will appear over the next few days. Feel free to respond with comments or questions, and at the end of the month we’ll endeavor to wrap things up with a Q&amp;A posting.</p>
<p>Thanks for reading, and more soon!</p>
<p>Dennis Lloyd<br />
University Press of Florida</p>
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		<title>Tell us what you think</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The AAUP Electronic Committee is conducting a survey and would be grateful for your participation. The survey takes about five minutes and will enable our committee to determine what issues are of greatest concern and how best to communicate with the membership. Many thanks for your help. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/digitaldigest Laura<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaupdigitaldigest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266841&amp;post=86&amp;subd=aaupdigitaldigest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The AAUP Electronic Committee is conducting a survey and would be grateful for your participation. The survey takes about five minutes and will enable our committee to determine what issues are of greatest concern and how best to communicate with the membership. Many thanks for your help. </p>
<p>http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/digitaldigest</p>
<p>Laura</p>
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