1	Growing Gains and Growing Pains Five years in the Scholarly Publishing Office
2	The Premise It makes sense for an academic research library to assume the role of (electronic?) publisher Because of our role Because of our concerns Because of our capacity
3	The Experiment The Scholarly Publishing Office Base funding for 1 director, 2 librarians coordinating and preparing publications, 1 programmer Technical infrastructure provided by Digital Library Production Service and Core Services
4	The Charge Go forth and change the world Three probable areas of attention: campus-based publications publishing arm of Library for-fee publishing services
5	What we did Anything we could get our hands on Opportunistic acquisition Learn by doing
6	Where we are 15 journals online or in development – mostly open access Small original monograph series Distribution for the ACLS History Ebook Project and for LLMC-Digital Society conference proceedings Publisher Assistance Program Robust print on demand program (20,000 ISBNs; 9000 books on Amazon.com) New collaborations with the University press -- digitalculturebooks
7	Where we are 8 fte staff on mix of base-funding and revenue Small stable of freelance graphic designers, indexers and copy-editors In-house and outsourced digitization activities Statistics gathering and reporting OAI metadata Auth/Auth (ip, passwords, Athens) Print services (varieties of POD, SRDP, liaison for partners) Testing electronic peer review systems
8	What we’re trying to figure out What defines a real publisher? Which of the traditional publishing structures do we replicate, and how do we keep from replicating inefficient and unsustainable economic models? How do we convince users (both authors and readers) that the structures we discard aren’t necessary?
9	What we’re trying to figure out The right balance of standards and ease, of flexibility and sustainability The role of peer/editorial review Which core principles cannot be sacrificed? Our relationship to institutional repositories What kind of investment do we make in marketing?
10	Where are we going now? More active collaboration with Press Broader consortial activity Closer alliance of disparate campus scholarly communications efforts – Deep Blue (IR), MBlogs, TCP, SPO
11	And where should we be going after that? Continue to develop flexible publishing system that provides robust baseline functionality Well articulated core services and optional, for-fee services More activism on rights issues and economic models Make our role more central to the Library’s sense of itself Address the question of branding/prestige
12	No Pain, No Gain; More (Hard) Good Things to Do Narrower acquisitions/selection profile? Balance growing the product and growing the infrastructure Lobby hard for campus discussions on new modes of publishing and conditions of promotion and tenure Develop real, working models of inter-institutional cooperative publishing