scholarly publishing

This 16 minute podcast features an interview with Karla Hahn, Director of Scholarly Communication for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). It was recorded at the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Surveys and interviews of members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) have revealed that a majority are now developing publishing services. Publishing centered in research institutions has a long history. Departments, institutes and other campus publishing have complemented university press publishing, collectively producing a wide range of high-quality works. Research libraries are positioned to transform university publishing as they create organized publishing services.

Libraries launch publishing services in response to needs for new kinds of support for scholarly publications. Services focus on the local constituency, although much of the content they are publishing comes from outside the institution. Journal publishing is the most common genre supported, although a majority of programs also support monographic publishing.

This podcast features a keynote speech from the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting. It's by Bob Young, CEO at Lulu Enterprises, and is entitled, "Educational Publishing: Moving from the 18th to the 21st Century in One Step".

Today's competitive education industry requires that we deliver more relevant information to our students faster than ever before. Taking six months to prepare a document and another six months to print and distribute it simply no longer meets the needs of 21st-century students or the society we are preparing them for.

In this 53-minute recording from the 2007 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, we'll hear from Kate Wittenberg in a session entitled While You Were Out: How Students are Transforming the World of Information and What it Means for Publishing. Wittenberg discusses the partnerships that publishers must create with online game developers and search engines, among others, in order to keep pace with the next generation of users

In this 21 minute recording, we'll hear from incoming CLIR president, Chuck Henry.  Listen in as he shares some thoughts on the involvement of libraries in scholarly publishing, cyberinfrastructure and much more.


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org