Recent cdl_present items

Implementing DEIA Training for Editors in a Library Publishing Program

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Established in 2002, eScholarship Publishing is a comprehensive open access publishing program for the University of California (UC) academic community with almost 100 open access journals. Our team is working to embed diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) in its training materials, starting with a required webinar for all journal editors that provides an overview of major DEIA topics in scholarly publishing. These topics include diversifying editorial boards, staff, author pools, and peer reviewers; implementing inclusive language and style guides; and meeting accessibility standards.

In this informational session, we describe our goals for creating and conducting this webinar, the level of editorial participation in the training, the opportunities and challenges we have encountered, feedback we have received, and the impact of this program so far.

“Make it so”: Sustainable, Academy-Owned Publishing Infrastructure with CDL, Michigan, & Janeway

Mon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Both the California Digital Library (CDL) and Michigan Publishing are migrating their journal publishing programs away from aging open source systems to the relatively new Janeway platform, also open source and developed by a team at the Open Library of Humanities. What does Janeway offer that has prompted this move? How might these migrations align with broader efforts to develop sustainable models for academy-owned OA publishing programs? How can library publishers, operating in a space dominated by the large commercial publishers and the platforms they own, help ensure that academy-owned, open infrastructure like Janeway is sustainable in the long term?

In this session, CDL and Michigan will discuss their distinct approaches to platform migration, Janeway’s capabilities as a platform for both journals and preprints, and how all three of these organizations are committed to long-term sustainability and collaboration with each other. The Janeway team will also offer...

Integrating Multiple Platforms with OpenID Connect, A Shared Authentication Service

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A conference presentation regarding OpenID Connect (OIDC) and other similar single sign on technologies, how it works, why you would want to use it, what projects are currently using it, and how to integrate it into your own work. Presented at Open Repositories 2022, in Denver, CO, on June 8. 2022. Supplemental material includes a recording of the presentation, made after the conference, as well as a powerpoint version of the slides.