[Birds-of-a-Feather] Building Systems of Credit within Library-Led OA Publishing
Location
School of Law Seminar Room 3.10
Start Date
4-6-2026 1:30 PM
End Date
4-6-2026 2:30 PM
Description
Library-led diamond open access journals produce rigorous, peer-reviewed scholarship. They also run on invisible, essential labor—editors managing workflows, peer reviewers evaluating manuscripts, and library personnel providing infrastructure and support—that doesn’t count when it matters.
If we want these journals to thrive and scale, we need to solve the recognition problem. We’ve learned some lessons about the enclosure of infrastructure with Publons, a free peer review platform that gained widespread academic trust which was acquired by Clarivate and absorbed into Web of Science. Their peer review recognition feature is available as an Open Journal Systems integration for a price. Plaudit is an open source tool designed for preprint endorsements, but hasn’t been tested in peer review contexts. Neither addresses editorial credit or library labor.
Across diamond OA publishing, there is space for experimentation and conversation about how to build sustainable, community-managed systems of credit - without repeating Publons’ trajectory. This birds-of-a-feather session is an invitation to compare notes. What are you experimenting with at your institution? What recognition mechanisms can work in diamond OA contexts? Where do our current systems fall short? What does success look like and what barriers stand in the way?
We'll map the problem together, share what's working (or not), and explore the networks and infrastructure we’d like to build collaboratively. Come ready to listen, share your experiments, and think about how we can make our work genuinely valued and sustainable.
[Birds-of-a-Feather] Building Systems of Credit within Library-Led OA Publishing
School of Law Seminar Room 3.10
Library-led diamond open access journals produce rigorous, peer-reviewed scholarship. They also run on invisible, essential labor—editors managing workflows, peer reviewers evaluating manuscripts, and library personnel providing infrastructure and support—that doesn’t count when it matters.
If we want these journals to thrive and scale, we need to solve the recognition problem. We’ve learned some lessons about the enclosure of infrastructure with Publons, a free peer review platform that gained widespread academic trust which was acquired by Clarivate and absorbed into Web of Science. Their peer review recognition feature is available as an Open Journal Systems integration for a price. Plaudit is an open source tool designed for preprint endorsements, but hasn’t been tested in peer review contexts. Neither addresses editorial credit or library labor.
Across diamond OA publishing, there is space for experimentation and conversation about how to build sustainable, community-managed systems of credit - without repeating Publons’ trajectory. This birds-of-a-feather session is an invitation to compare notes. What are you experimenting with at your institution? What recognition mechanisms can work in diamond OA contexts? Where do our current systems fall short? What does success look like and what barriers stand in the way?
We'll map the problem together, share what's working (or not), and explore the networks and infrastructure we’d like to build collaboratively. Come ready to listen, share your experiments, and think about how we can make our work genuinely valued and sustainable.