PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2015 | Roger Gillis
Helping users help themselves: Knowledge management for Scholarly Publications
Abstract
One significant challenge that scholarly
journals, conferences, and other publications face is that the institutional
memory associated with many of their operations is often inaccessible as these
publications move through a rotating cast of editors, managing editors, and various
other roles associated with running these operations. These publications or
entities take on an institutional memory of their own, often confined to the
esoteric minds of one or a few individuals. When a publication's leadership
turns over this memory often leaves along with other key knowledge associated
with a particular publishing operation. While PKP software like OJS, OCS, and
OMP have made significant strides in providing technical solutions to common
administrative functions of running publishing operations, more work remains to
be done in helping publications build and maintain their knowledge base in
order that their publications continue to grow and thrive over time. Drawing
particularly on best practices developed by the Canadian Association of Learned
Journals, and the new PKP school, this presentation will discuss the importance
of knowledge management for scholarly publishing strategies for supporting
Knowledge Management for scholarly publishing operations. This lightning talk
will serve as a thoughtpiece for exploring strategies to help users help
themselves by assisting and editors and others working on scholarly
publications with ways of documenting and sharing their workflows, practices,
procedures within their communities in order to ensure that knowledge essential
to these operations is maintained after they move on.
Full Text Video | http://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp2015/paper/view/502/367
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