I want to second everything that has been said. This is an amazing achievement, wholehearted congratulations to Racheli and to all of us.
Yelena Luckert Director of Research, Teaching & Learning Librarian for Jewish and Slavic Studies University of Maryland Libraries College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301-405-9365 Fax: 301-405-9191 [email protected] On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 9:17 AM Joyce Levine via Hasafran < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Racheli, > Mazel tovah on the continued success of JL and on your decision to move to > open access. Way to go! > Joyce > ------------------------------ > *From:* Hasafran <[email protected]> on behalf of Sally > Stieglitz via Hasafran <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, January 2, 2020 8:12:49 AM > *To:* Hasafran <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [ha-Safran] Judaica Librarianship off to a new start > > Congratulations and thank you to Rachel! This is an important step forward > for our scholarship. I appreciate your initiative and hard work. > Best regards, > Sally > > On Wed, 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 <(480)%20965-2618> > > > > 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://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] > Ha-Safran Archives: > Current: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > Earlier Listserver: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org > -- > Hasafran mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > > > > -- > Sally Stieglitz > Communications and Marketing Librarian | Long Island Library Resources > Council > [email protected] | 631-675-1570 x2005 > http://www.lilrc.org > > [image: ORCID] http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1552-9188 > > > > LILRC is a member of the Empire State Library Network (ESLN > <https://www.esln.org/>) > > Follow LILRC on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/LILRCouncil/> Twitter > <https://twitter.com/lilrc> Instagram > <https://www.instagram.com/lilrcevents/> > __ > 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://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] > Ha-Safran Archives: > Current: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > Earlier Listserver: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org > -- > Hasafran mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran >
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