This questionnaire is designed to collect information for 2016 Library Publishing Directory, published by the Library Publishing Coalition. A version of the Directory will be openly available online.
This questionnaire has 35 questions and will take approximately 45 minutes to complete. We recommend that you preview the survey questions here before you begin. To obtain a copy of your responses for your records, e-mail sarah@educopia.org.
Please follow these guidelines when completing the questionnaire:
1. Do not include any information that you do not want to share with others. Contact information, mission statement/objectives, and information about services and publications may be published in the Directory.
2. If a university press reports to your library, do not include its activities in your answers unless specified. The LPC is in the process of evaluating how to include university press publications in the Directory; we thank you for your patience as we determine how best to represent the library-press relationship in future editions.
3. Base your answers on the following definition of library publishing:
Library publishing is defined here as the set of activities led by college and university libraries to support the creation, dissemination, and curation of scholarly, creative, and/or educational works.
Generally, library publishing requires a production process, presents original work not previously made available, and applies a level of certification to the content published, whether through peer review or extension of the institutional brand.
Based on core library values and building on the traditional skills of librarians, it is distinguished from other publishing fields by a preference for Open Access dissemination and a willingness to embrace informal and experimental forms of scholarly communication, and to challenge the status quo.
4. Incomplete responses (surveys with fewer than half of the questions answered) may not be published.
