Scholarly Publishing and the Texas Digital Library

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Scholarly Publishing and the Texas Digital
Library

• Adam Mikeal

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The Goal

• A place within the TDL umbrella to host
  scholarly, peer-reviewed content
• Workflow and submission management

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The Journal

• Journal of Digital Information a peer-reviewed,
  electronic-only journal
• In its 8th year of publication published by
  Texas AM University Libraries
• Originally supported by the British Computing
  Society, Oxford University Press, and the
  University of Southampton

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The Problem

• Innovative for 1997, needs a face-lift
• Very little managed workflow or submission
  support
• No standard encoding formats (i.e. TEI) some
  documents multi-page hypertexts

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The Solution

• Open Journal Systems - journal management and
  publishing system
• Publishing reader tools and OAI-PMH integration
• Management complete scholarly workflow,
  including peer review, copy and layout

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OJS Overview

• All users assigned to roles
• Readers Authors Reviewers Editors
• One user can have multiple roles

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OJS Overview

• Submission and review happens entirely within the
  web-based interface
• Editing functions are also inside the web
  application proofing, copy editing, layout
  editing, scheduling for publication

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OJS Overview

• Once published, articles are exposed for
  harvesting via OAI-PMH
• OJS includes reader tools for metadata, database
  searches, citation capturing, etc
• Reader tools are customizable per journal

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OJS, continued

• One OJS instance can host many journals
• There is only a limited amount of play in the
  look-and-feel
• Latest version introduces LOCKSS support

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Future possibilities

• Scholarly workflow in a Manakin Aspect storage
  of journal articles in the institutional
  repository
• Extension of OJS to meet the specific needs of
  TDL
• Creation of a new system using different
  technology specifically for TDL

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Questions