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Innovation Session 3

Friday, November 18, 2022 9:30 AM EST

These 60 minute sessions focus on innovative or entrepreneurial thinking in libraries – new ways to solve problems, new technology or existing tech utilized in new ways, etc. They will feature five 8-minute presentations back-to-back, with a moderator for introductions, Q&A, and time keeping. Plenty of time will be allotted at the end of the session for audience questions and discussion.

Moderated by Sandy Avila, SPIE

Multimodal Digital Monographs: Content, Collaboration, Community

Sarah McKee (Emory University) & Allison Levy (Brown University)

Keywords: monographs, digital publishing, open access, humanities

In April 2021 Brown University and Emory University hosted a virtual summit focused on university-based approaches to developing enhanced or interactive digital monographs for publication by an academic press. The summit convened grantees in the Digital Monograph cohort supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and included academic staff experts (e.g., digital scholarship editors, digital humanities and scholarly communications librarians) and representatives from presses who are publishing these works, as well as some of the scholar-authors who have intentionally chosen the digital environment to advance and present their arguments.

The summit attendees examined a selection of diverse digital monograph publications, either recently released or in development, to think through some of the most pressing questions facing stakeholders in digital scholarly publishing today: How have we adapted, transformed, or disrupted the familiar publishing process? What can we learn from the publishing models that have emerged to date? What challenges are we facing today, and what might the next few years look like? How can we encourage a shared vocabulary for these digital publications within the wider scholarly communications landscape?

In June 2022 the summit conveners released a report, "Multimodal Digital Monographs: Content, Collaboration, Community" (https://multimodal-digital-monographs.pubpub.org/) to share the outcomes of the day’s discussions. Topics ranged from cross-institutional collaborations, community engagement, and professional development to open access, funding models, peer review, metadata and discoverability, preservation, and sustainability. The report offers a starting point for continuing dialogue and reflection on the current and future landscape of digital publishing as well as the growing alignment between research libraries and scholarly presses. We propose in this session to present a high-level overview of the report and then open the floor to discussion, inviting attendees to share their own experiences or raise new questions.

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Teaching data science and text analysis in the library

Jen Ferguson (Northeastern University) & Amy Kirchhoff (ITHAKA)

Keywords: text analysis, data science

There is a massive hurdle facing those eager to learn text analysis and data science. Text analysis practitioners are producing compelling research that is inspiring students, faculty and staff to learn these techniques and apply them to their own research, but those new to this work are often at a loss for how to begin. This represents an opportunity for libraries to help bridge the gap. By teaching researchers enough text analysis and data science skills to get started, we can put them on a path to grow their own abilities and interests.

At this session we will introduce you to Constellate, a new service and platform dedicated to helping you help your community learn text analysis. Constellate provides a platform with the content and tools users and librarians need together in one place, alongside a defined curriculum and robust tutorials, live classes taught by text analysis experts, and a community that users and librarians can connect to for inspiration and guidance. We will describe how the Northeastern University library has leveraged this platform and resources to create an online workshop called "Python and Text Analysis for Absolute Beginners". This wildly popular workshop has been oversubscribed every time it’s been offered, and has now been attended by hundreds of people. But it hasn’t all been seamless! We will share some of the pain points we’ve uncovered and lessons learned to help others who may be considering similar services.

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Posters and Presentations: Innovation in Conference Proposal Peer Review and Conference Presentation Preservation and Curation

David Parker (Underline Science) & Jennifer Goodrich (Morressier)

Keywords: Preprints, Posters, Hybrid Conferences, Streaming Video, Early Research

The pandemic thrust scholarly conferences into virtual and hybrid-first focus. Morressier and Underline are engaged in the delivery, preservation, curation, and inclusion of conference posters and presentations into the durable scholarly record. Hear the latest product innovations coming to the two platforms from representatives of Morressier and Underline.

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Collaborating on Open Access Books Analytics

Niels Stern (OAPEN Foundation)

Keywords: Open Access, Books/monographs, Analytics

Open access (OA) to academic books is gaining momentum. Publishers are increasingly including OA in their publishing programmes and more research funders develop mandates for OA books. Simultaneously, libraries increasingly support OA book publishing programmes and infrastructures. For all the stakeholders, usage data are important.

This presentation will share two initiatives that provide usage data to libraries, publishers, and research funders in user-friendly ways.

The first initiative that will be presented is the OAPEN usage statistics dashboard which is a service in operation. The dashboard provides seamless and up-to-date access to COUNTER data of the 25,000+ titles in the OAPEN Library. For libraries the data can be based on IP ranges or geo-location.

Secondly, the presentation will share how OAPEN plans to expand its initiative through a Mellon funded project (2022-2025) together with Curtin University (AUS) and Educopia (U.S.). This project will aggregate and display a suite of usage data for OA books across multiple platforms (JSTOR, OAPEN, Google Books, Wikipedia, Twitter etc.) into one dashboard to the benefit of libraries and other stakeholders.

The presentation will share the roadmap for this project, its objectives, and explain how the library community can engage in its development.

Innovation Session 3

Friday, November 4, 2022 9:30 AM EDT

These 60 minute sessions focus on innovative or entrepreneurial thinking in libraries – new ways to solve problems, new technology or existing tech utilized in new ways, etc. They will feature five 8-minute presentations back-to-back, with a moderator for introductions, Q&A, and time keeping. Plenty of time will be allotted at the end of the session for audience questions and discussion.

Moderated by Sandy Avila, SPIE

Multimodal Digital Monographs: Content, Collaboration, Community

Sarah McKee (Emory University) & Allison Levy (Brown University)

Keywords: monographs, digital publishing, open access, humanities

In April 2021 Brown University and Emory University hosted a virtual summit focused on university-based approaches to developing enhanced or interactive digital monographs for publication by an academic press. The summit convened grantees in the Digital Monograph cohort supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and included academic staff experts (e.g., digital scholarship editors, digital humanities and scholarly communications librarians) and representatives from presses who are publishing these works, as well as some of the scholar-authors who have intentionally chosen the digital environment to advance and present their arguments.

The summit attendees examined a selection of diverse digital monograph publications, either recently released or in development, to think through some of the most pressing questions facing stakeholders in digital scholarly publishing today: How have we adapted, transformed, or disrupted the familiar publishing process? What can we learn from the publishing models that have emerged to date? What challenges are we facing today, and what might the next few years look like? How can we encourage a shared vocabulary for these digital publications within the wider scholarly communications landscape?

In June 2022 the summit conveners released a report, "Multimodal Digital Monographs: Content, Collaboration, Community" (https://multimodal-digital-monographs.pubpub.org/) to share the outcomes of the day’s discussions. Topics ranged from cross-institutional collaborations, community engagement, and professional development to open access, funding models, peer review, metadata and discoverability, preservation, and sustainability. The report offers a starting point for continuing dialogue and reflection on the current and future landscape of digital publishing as well as the growing alignment between research libraries and scholarly presses. We propose in this session to present a high-level overview of the report and then open the floor to discussion, inviting attendees to share their own experiences or raise new questions.

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Teaching data science and text analysis in the library

Jen Ferguson (Northeastern University) & Amy Kirchhoff (ITHAKA)

Keywords: text analysis, data science

There is a massive hurdle facing those eager to learn text analysis and data science. Text analysis practitioners are producing compelling research that is inspiring students, faculty and staff to learn these techniques and apply them to their own research, but those new to this work are often at a loss for how to begin. This represents an opportunity for libraries to help bridge the gap. By teaching researchers enough text analysis and data science skills to get started, we can put them on a path to grow their own abilities and interests.

At this session we will introduce you to Constellate, a new service and platform dedicated to helping you help your community learn text analysis. Constellate provides a platform with the content and tools users and librarians need together in one place, alongside a defined curriculum and robust tutorials, live classes taught by text analysis experts, and a community that users and librarians can connect to for inspiration and guidance. We will describe how the Northeastern University library has leveraged this platform and resources to create an online workshop called "Python and Text Analysis for Absolute Beginners". This wildly popular workshop has been oversubscribed every time it’s been offered, and has now been attended by hundreds of people. But it hasn’t all been seamless! We will share some of the pain points we’ve uncovered and lessons learned to help others who may be considering similar services.

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Preprints, Posters, and Presentations: Thoughts on the Collection, Curation, and Delivery of Early Research.

David Parker (Underline Science) & Jennifer Goodrich (Morressier)

Keywords: Posters and Presentations: Innovation in Conference Proposal Peer Review and Conference Presentation Preservation and Curation

The pandemic thrust scholarly conferences into virtual and hybrid-first focus. Morressier and Underline are engaged in the delivery, preservation, curation, and inclusion of conference posters and presentations into the durable scholarly record. Hear the latest product innovations coming to the two platforms from representatives of Morressier and Underline.

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Collaborating on Open Access Books Analytics

Niels Stern (OAPEN Foundation)

Keywords: Open Access, Books/monographs, Analytics

Open access (OA) to academic books is gaining momentum. Publishers are increasingly including OA in their publishing programmes and more research funders develop mandates for OA books. Simultaneously, libraries increasingly support OA book publishing programmes and infrastructures. For all the stakeholders, usage data are important.

This presentation will share two initiatives that provide usage data to libraries, publishers, and research funders in user-friendly ways.

The first initiative that will be presented is the OAPEN usage statistics dashboard which is a service in operation. The dashboard provides seamless and up-to-date access to COUNTER data of the 25,000+ titles in the OAPEN Library. For libraries the data can be based on IP ranges or geo-location.

Secondly, the presentation will share how OAPEN plans to expand its initiative through a Mellon funded project (2022-2025) together with Curtin University (AUS) and Educopia (U.S.). This project will aggregate and display a suite of usage data for OA books across multiple platforms (JSTOR, OAPEN, Google Books, Wikipedia, Twitter etc.) into one dashboard to the benefit of libraries and other stakeholders.

The presentation will share the roadmap for this project, its objectives, and explain how the library community can engage in its development.

Amy Kirchhoff enjoys her long career at JSTOR, Portico and ITHAKA. She started her career working in the JSTOR technology group and continues to contribute to Portico as the Archive Service Product Manager. She is currently the Business Manager for Constellate, a new text-analysis service from ITHAKA, which offers a comprehensive and easily accessible program that helps users develop text analysis and data mining competencies, along with related skills, through multiple modes of learning and hands-on application.  

I'm currently the Head of Research Data Services at Northeastern University's Snell Library. In this role, I lead a small but mighty team with expertise in data analysis & manipulation, coding, GIS, and data visualization. I advise on data management tools, standards, documentation, and organizational techniques to support data discoverability, reuse, and preservation. I also assist researchers preparing data management plans for grant applications, and promote potential solutions for storage and preservation of research data upon project completion.

Niels Stern is director of OAPEN. He began his career in scholarly book publishing in 2003 with an emphasis on marketing and digital publishing. In this capacity he became a co-founder of the OAPEN project in 2008. Moving on to the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2011 as head of publishing he created a Nordic open access policy and publication repository. Since 2014 Niels Stern has acted as independent expert for the European Commission on open science and e-infrastructures. He has evaluated and reviewed numerous European projects, e.g. HIRMEOS and OPERAS-D. In 2017 he joined the Royal Danish Library as head of department, managing licence portfolios for five universities and serving as chief negotiator for the national licence consortium.

Niels Stern holds a Master of Arts degree from University of Copenhagen (Nordic Literature and Languages) and a Master of Arts degree from Goldsmiths College, University of London (Communication). He has published articles on open access and other subjects and in 2017 he co-authored the Knowledge Exchange Landscape study on monographs and open access together with Frances Pinter and Eelco Ferwerda.

E-mail: stern[@]oapen.org

Twitter: @nielsstern, @OAPENbooks

ORCID: 0000-0001-6466-9748