Kol ha-kavod! Hope all is well with you and your family. Happy 2020! Debbie
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 1, 2020, at 9:51 PM, Hasafran via Hasafran <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> >> Dear AJL members, >> >> >> >> I have a short apology and a long explanation for you regarding the delayed >> publication of Judaica Librarianship’s new issue (#21). >> >> >> >> As you know, producing AJL’s scholarly journal is based on voluntary work. >> In 2018, I was first grappling with a new day job position and then went on >> a semester-long sabbatical. In 2019, I had a lot of post-sabbatical catch-up >> to do and while working on the content of issue #21, I was also engaged in a >> search for a new hosting service for the journal. >> >> >> >> Since we transferred JL to electronic publishing in 2013, we have hosted the >> journal content on the Digital Commons platform, owned and operated by >> bepress, a company that was established by academics to promote open access >> publishing and library repository solutions. We teamed up with bepress >> because they accommodated our needs, including the management of our delayed >> access publishing model (a 12-months exclusive access for AJL members) – but >> that came with a cost. In addition to the big-ticket annual fee, as all >> bepress costumers we learned from the media in early August 2017, that the >> company was purchased by Elsevier, one of the most aggressive commercial >> publishers in scholarly publishing (see the Scholarly Kitchen post: >> https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/08/02/elsevier-acquires-bepress/). >> Many of bepress customers moved away from Digital Commons since then and JL >> Editorial Board agreed that we should do so, too as AJL should not >> contribute to the for-profit publisher. Due to the reasons stated above I >> was not able to dedicate much time for this project until 2019, but now I am >> happy to report that we found a new hosting service for JL. The journal will >> move to its new home in a few weeks, after we migrate its structure, >> metadata, and articles; and the new issue will be published on the new >> platform. >> >> >> >> This move constitutes a major saving for AJL and would contribute to the >> sustainability of our organization. Furthermore, as many scholarly journals >> have done, I am happy to announce that JL Editorial Board and AJL Council >> unanimously approved my proposal to move the journal to complete open access >> publishing.* This initiative would expand the reach of JL to global >> readership even further than it did so far: Since the journal moved to >> electronic publishing, the 250 articles posted online were downloaded almost >> 39,000 times(!) and in 2019 alone, almost 7,500 downloads were recorded. >> Advancing to open access publishing is not only the right thing to do, as >> declared by an AJL Council member, but it also epitomizes the AJL Mission: >> >> >> >> The Association of Jewish Libraries is an international professional >> organization that fosters access to information and research in all forms of >> media relating to all things Jewish. The Association promotes Jewish >> literacy and scholarship and provides a community for peer support and >> professional development. >> >> >> >> I thank the JL Editorial Board, and AJL Council and Board for their strong >> and enthusiastic support and look for the continued support of AJL members >> in AJL and its scholarly journal. Please let me know if you have any >> questions. >> >> >> >> Stay tuned for the new issue and new platform announcement! >> >> >> >> Happy New Year, >> >> Rachel >> >> >> >> * “Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research >> articles combined with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital >> environment. Open Access is the needed modern update for the communication >> of research that fully utilizes the Internet for what it was originally >> built to do—accelerate research” (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic >> Resources Coalition; https://sparcopen.org/open-access/). >> >> >> >> >> >> Rachel Leket-Mor, MA, MLIS >> >> Associate Librarian >> >> Curator, Open Stack Collections >> >> IsraPulp Collection >> >> Arizona State University Library >> >> Phone: 480-965-2618 >> >> >> >> Editor, Judaica Librarianship >> >> Association of Jewish Libraries >> >> https://ajlpublishing.org/jl/ >> > __ > Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author > and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) > ================================== > Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: > [email protected] > To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: > https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.service.ohio-state.edu%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fhasafran&data=02%7C01%7C%7C7f72c89cb84c4d397bde08d78f2eb5e5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637135303086567102&sdata=LiKwI2rJ%2BpZGPlrbrGdqPLfsx1IMnjyx23%2BYaPYQTEg%3D&reserved=0 > Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] > Ha-Safran Archives: > Current: > https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mail-archive.com%2Fhasafran%2540lists.service.ohio-state.edu%2Fmaillist.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7C7f72c89cb84c4d397bde08d78f2eb5e5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637135303086567102&sdata=F%2FKpp66QbAJgl1uC4Q9d8U2WBvlb%2F7NfES%2BmqxywX3U%3D&reserved=0 > Earlier Listserver: > https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mail-archive.com%2Fhasafran%2540lists.acs.ohio-state.edu%2Fmaillist.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7C7f72c89cb84c4d397bde08d78f2eb5e5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637135303086567102&sdata=pCG0ms7fjm%2BFMIlT9hxUA5xVvtN%2FwkNhACFrDkeoIKw%3D&reserved=0 > AJL HomePage > https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.JewishLibraries.org&data=02%7C01%7C%7C7f72c89cb84c4d397bde08d78f2eb5e5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637135303086567102&sdata=zArwvKECgnWAuEIMEGldRv%2BH8j4w9UcPLLSdB%2FiXbtQ%3D&reserved=0 > -- > Hasafran mailing list > [email protected] > https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.osu.edu%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fhasafran&data=02%7C01%7C%7C7f72c89cb84c4d397bde08d78f2eb5e5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637135303086567102&sdata=vYzCjUsFxklf5V1Vo6ejLPkoGtoGLvV%2FeHllgyXxcOQ%3D&reserved=0
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