Challenges and Support in Open Access Publishing: An Editor's Insight

Reflecting on the evolution of open access publishing from its low-cost origins in 1998 to the digital era, this editorial explores challenges like marketing and impact factors, while emphasizing the crucial role of support from libraries, Editorial Boards, and managing editors in sustaining small, non-profit OA publications.

• Open Access Publishing
• Editors Perspective
• Challenges
• Support
• Non-profit

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1. OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING: AN EDITOR S PERSPECTIVE DR. KEVIN LALOR, DIT PAST EDITOR, IRISH JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL STUDIES OPEN ACCESS OPEN ACTION , 26THOCTOBER 2016, DR. STEEVENS LIBRARY AND THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD

2. Origins: 1998, Emphasis on low-cost, non-profit, ease of access for practitioners (first published by the Irish Association of Social Care Educators; now a journal of Social Care Ireland) Print run continued until 2011 Moved on-line in 2009 (http://arrow.dit.ie/ijass/), with Digital Commons (Berkeley Electronic Press)

4. Digital Commons services On-line manuscript/review processing platform Automated communications with reviewers/authors Most popular papers; Special Issues; RSS feed; Download count (incl to all contributors) 178 papers generated 177,011 downloads

6. Challenges Marketing/awareness (eg, LinkedIn group, n=400; fliers at conferences etc.) Lack of impact factor; not included in Scopus etc. & consequent profile of submissions Resisting practice or student submissions Continuity of quality submissions (eg, approach from Sage)

7. Support Importance of support from DIT Library and Digital Commons Importance of active Editorial Board Importance of Managing Editor Importance of ownership by IASCE and then SCI.

8. FUTURE Place of small, non-profit OA publications in landscape dominated by giants such as Elsevier and Thomson Reuters ?