With Our Powers Combined: How the University of Southern Mississippi Library/bepress Consulting Services Partnership Makes Campus-wide Services Sustainable

Thad Cochran Center 218

The University of Southern Mississippi’s institutional repository, The Aquila Digital Community, hosts ten conferences; eight journals and newsletters; and a slew of other publications that touch every corner of campus. How does the library manage to offer such wide-ranging, customized services in a sustainable way?

Lauren Briskin, Consultant at bepress, and Josh Cromwell, Institutional Repository Coordinator, will co-present to share how their working partnership makes it possible to offer unique publishing services to the University of Southern Mississippi community. From establishing efficient workflows to consultation around best practices, Lauren and Josh have worked together to implement lasting solutions for students, faculty, and editors. Among other examples of this successful model, they will discuss "Gulf and Caribbean Research," a journal that supports peer-review tools, access control via a moving wall, subscriptions, and a custom design.

Attendees will come away with an idea of the scope of skills and projects associated with a full library-publishing initiative, as well as concrete suggestions for how colleagues—whether at the same institution or across the country—can divide and conquer.