Open Access Book Publishing

In this presentation Harrison W. Inefuku, Scholarly Publishing Services Librarian at Iowa State University Library, discusses how Iowa State University Digital Press is working to increases the diversity of ideas, cultures
and experiences represented in the scholarly record.

This presentation was delivered as part of the workshop: “Bridging Altruism To Strategy in OA Book Publishing: How Libraries Can Close Funding Gaps to Support a Bibliodiverse Global Shared Collection” (1 May 2024, online). The workshop was organised by Lyrasis in collaboration with Open Book Futures (a Copim Community research project, co-funded by Arcadia and the Research England Development fund).

The workshop explored how libraries can better respond to the strategic and practical challenges of supporting bibliodiverse futures for open access (OA) book publishing. The event focused in particular on the new and distinct strategies required to connect the dots between different aspects of library workflows, from ensuring quality of content, to collections development, to rendering content – and especially open access content – discoverable and available for users. More information on the workshop is available here: https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/workshop-bridging-altruism-to-strategy-in-oa-book-publishing