Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023)
Editors' Note
As library publishers, we constantly engage with questions that have long-term consequences for the future of our programs and for scholarly communications as a whole. How do we build and sustain equitable models of open access? How do we work internationally and in multiple languages? Perhaps most importantly, how do we translate our often lofty values and missions into concrete projects, workflows, and policies? This is the entry point for Case Studies in Library Publishing (CSLP), which offers a forum for publishers and their collaborators to share details of the projects they have developed. After three years of brainstorming, reflection, conversation, and delays, followed by a full year of editorial labor, we’re so proud to share the first issue of CSLP.
Within this issue, you will find seven case studies, each discussing a publication or related set of publications within their own unique institutional and disciplinary contexts. Along with their narratives, we have prompted authors to include some background on their respective publishing programs, as well as “project takeaways” that might prove useful to our audience. While all of the publications featured would be considered successful by almost any criteria, we appreciate contributors’ willingness to share lessons learned and course corrections along the way.
We are grateful for the incredible contributions of our editorial board members jaime ding and Christine Turner, who took on a major role in shaping the vision, policies, and mission of the journal in its first year. We also appreciate the work of our peer reviewers, who provided generous feedback to our authors as well as guidance to us in structuring CSLP’s open peer review process. Thanks to Tracy MacKay-Ratliff, the LibraryPress@UF Publications Design Manager, for her expertise, and Laurie Taylor, former LibraryPress@UF Editor-in-Chief, for her encouragement. As this issue is being published, both of us are departing our professional roles at UF (though not our roles on CSLP) for new opportunities, but we will always value the wonderful colleagues we met and experience we gained. We would also like to acknowledge the Library Publishing Coalition, and the staff and community members who have made it a professional home for so many over the past decade. We hope to see CSLP continue to engage with this network as well as other communities globally.
Perry Collins & Chelsea Johnston
List of Peer Reviewers
CSLP follows a model of open peer review, where authors and reviewers are aware of one another’s identities. While we do not publish peer reviews, with permission from the reviewers we acknowledge their service here.
Zachariah Claybaugh
Preethi Gorecki
Corinne Guimont
Erin Jerome
Annie Johnson
James Brooks Kuykendall
Ally Laird
Rebecca McNulty
A. Miller
John Warren
Michelle Wilson
