Innovation Session 3 Recording

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

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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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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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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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.

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

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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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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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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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.