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IU Open Access Week 2025

IUB Libraries' Programming for OA Week 2025

Panel: The Case for University-Based Publishing: Models, Missions, and Momentum

As commercial scholarly publishing consolidates and costs continue to rise, universities are working to regain control over how scholarship is disseminated, maintained, and acquired. This panel will examine the promise and challenges of university-based publishing—from university presses to library publishing programs and beyond.

Panelists will discuss:

  • How university-based publishing differs from commercial models, and why this distinction matters for equity, sustainability, and the future of scholarship
  • University presses today: challenges, opportunities, initiatives, and strategies for thriving
  • What is library publishing, why libraries publish, and how library publishing advances access and equity
  • Funding models and sustainability for university-based publishing
  • How faculty, libraries, universities, and university presses can collaborate to build more equitable, community-owned scholarly communication systems

When

Thursday, October 23

1 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern)

Where

Register (Zoom Webinar)


Panelists:

Heather Akou, Professor, Fashion Design, IU
Annie Martin, Editorial Director, IU Press

Annie Martin is Editorial Director at Indiana University Press. She brings more than two decades of experience in acquisitions and academic publishing, beginning her career at Wayne State University Press, where she held several roles, including senior acquisitions editor and editor in chief.

Kate McCready, Program Director for Open Publishing, Center for Library Programs - Big Ten Academic Alliance

Kate is a librarian who works to develop collective action strategies to "advance increasingly open, more equitable scholarship", the guiding star of the libraries of the Alliance. To solve shared problems and bring operations to scale, Kate develops programs that strengthen academy-owned open access publishing. She also provides leadership to programs that both support the creation of open access materials and also facilitate investments in sustainable open access content and infrastructure.

Mary Rose Muccie, Executive Director, Temple University Press, and Scholarly Communications Officer, Temple University Libraries

Mary Rose Muccie has worked in scholarly publishing for over 35 years and has been Director of Temple University Press and Scholarly Communications Officer in Temple Libraries since 2014. Before coming to Temple, she was the founding Director of the JSTOR Current Scholarship Program, Director of Project MUSE, and Publisher at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. At Temple, she oversees the Press’s publishing program, which produces 45 to 50 books annually, and launched robust open access publishing services within the Libraries.

Solimar Otero, Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Professor, Gender Studies, and Director, Latino Studies, IU

Moderator

Karen Stoll Farrell, Director, Scholarly Communication and Open Publishing, IU Libraries