What is the “scholarship of publishing”? Currently, as part of the promotion and tenure process many faculty “work” in the publishing business. We write the articles that are published, we serve as reviewers and editors of scholarly publications, and we manage the open access software for journals or repositories in many academic institutions worldwide. While those who work in these areas do get credit for their work under the rubric of “community service” it does not rise to the recognition of their work as a “scholarship of publishing”. This new scholarship would be true scholarship in that faculty would be teaching others at conferences and workshops, via training opportunities, and through scholarly writing as well. Promoting this “scholarship of publishing” would at once both recognize much of what we already do, and it would also help to spread best practices in the cooperative publishing field as well, thereby furthering the success of this movement.

The other key component for successful sustainability is a sound and proven not-for- profit business model – that of the cooperative business. The modern cooperative business structure has been in existence for over 160 years. This model, applied to so many other sectors of business, can be easily adapted for the business of scholarly publishing. These cooperative not-for-profit principles are the catalysts that will make academic publishing thrive.

This presentation will discuss university support for open access publishing and gold open access in general, and report on one particular initiative, the University of Oregon’s OAPS grants to faculty for OA author fees.

My linear algebra textbook first became available in July 2004 at linear.ups.edu with an open license (GFDL). I will use the six years of experience writing and producing this text, from conception through adoptions and revisions, to comment on the questions above. I will then turn to speculation and predictions about the greater availability and use of open textbooks in the years ahead.

ScholarWorks consists of five key services:

*Identifying and making available via the ScholarWorks web site documents and files produced by the faculty, research groups, and students of Boise State University.

*Creation of Selected Works pages which highlight the scholarly accomplishments of each individual faculty member.

*Distribution of regular reports that provide data on the impact and usage of faculty publications.

*Access to simple and inexpensive electronic publishing of original series, journals, and monographs.

*Promotion of research efforts via a searchable database, reports to key administrators and stakeholders, and coordination with other research recognition activities.

Research development and distribution has been a key goal for Boise State as it strives to become a “Metropolitan Research University of Distinction.” By aligning ScholarWorks with this goal, the service has been able to immediately meet a key, identified need. Additionally, as a open access repository, the very process of soliciting archiving permission for faculty publications opens the door to critical conversations about author rights. In this way, open access actually serves as a tool benefiting both the university and individual faculty members.

This presentation will describe the methods and strategies used by one repository to support both a university’s mission and open access initiatives.

This presentation explores how Digital Commons as both an institutional repository and a publishing system is being used by faculty to support exciting publishing initiatives ranging from traditional journals, student/professor collaborations, clearinghouses, and so on.