A Demonstration of

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• A Demonstration of
• Open Access Publishing
• Katherine Skinner, Managing Editor
• Allen Tullos, Editorial BoardOctober 2, 2004

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The Roots of Southern Spaces

• MetaScholar Initiative
• Seeks to provide improved means of sharing
  information about research collections through
• metadata aggregation networks
• new forms of peer-reviewed scholarship using
  digital media
• frameworks for cooperative digital library
  services distributed across multiple universities
• AmericanSouth.Org
• Scholarly Design Team strove to create a new
  model for online scholarship
• portal conceptual problems
• need for modular pieces

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Advantages of Web-based Publications(as
identified in the AmericanSouth project)

• Encompasses streaming audio and video,
  photography, maps, internet links and resources,
  as well as traditional texts
• Presents scholarship in a timely fashion
• Enables regular updates of content
• Provides globally, freely and instantly
  accessible publication and archiving of materials
  
• Increases the ease and accuracy of tracking
  submissions (Open Journal Software)
• Cuts much of the overhead introduced by corporate
  models of publishing, potentially lowering the
  cost to scholars and institutions

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Southern Spaces design

• Southern Spaces addresses several other important
  needs in academic publishing
• No existing models for web-based journal that
  treats the medium as more than an inexpensive
  text publishing tool
• http//www.echo.ucla.edu
• http//www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/
• Editorial Board recommended that Southern Spaces
  distinguish itself in part by seeking to make
  full use of the medium

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Why Open Access?

• Freely available as a publication
• Freely available as a software package that other
  non-profit institutions can replicate at will
• Open Journal Software used for the submission
  process
• http//callimachus.library.emory.edu/ssp

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What Makes Southern Spaces a New Model?

• Various publication formats, specifically
  designed for this medium
• Submissions can be accepted in part on the basis
  of their appropriateness for this medium
• Permanent locations for urls (library quality
  publication)
• Archival quality image, sound, and video files
  kept at Emory
• Regular updates of content
• Globally, freely, instantly accessible publication

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Key Feature

• Pioneering new model for how to conduct
  scholarship on the web, not by simply using the
  web as a dissemination medium for print
  publications, but by using the strengths of this
  medium to go beyond the limitations of print.
• http//southernspaces.org

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What it took to get Southern Spaces up and
running

• Three year process (to date)
• Open Journal Software Tool
• Cultivating a committed Editorial Board
• Relationship with systems (server space, help
  with streaming media files)
• Designing the site itself
• Creating standards, submission guidelines

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Credits

• Allen TullosEditorial Board Katherine
  SkinnerManaging EditorMartin HalbertPrincipal
  Advisor and SponsorSteve BransfordDigital
  Media CoordinatorPaul O'GradyWoodruff Fellow
  Emily SatterwhiteCopyeditor and Research
  AssistantSarah TotonDigital Image Coordinator