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The new year brings a host of new publishing-related services and events to WFU faculty, staff and students.

First of all, Digital Publishing @ Wake has launched a new imprint, Library Partners Press. As its name implies, LP Press partners with libraries from across the state to offer a full range of publishing services to NC LIVE-affiliated library patrons. The press aims to produce quality books in both electronic and print formats, and thus render local content accessible to a broader audience. Submissions from WFU faculty, staff and students are encouraged. Meanwhile, LP Press also participates in the SELF-e program sponsored by Library Journal, wherein such indie-published titles are distributed back into libraries’ permanent circulating collections. LP Press will thus both collect content from library patrons, and make this content available from library collections. Look for the official launch of the first Library Partners Press books this spring.

Meanwhile, the Digital Publishing department now offers a new journal hosting service in partnership with Scholastica. This mediated service streamlines the peer-reviewed journal management process, more easily tracks manuscripts and permits more collaboration with editors, authors and reviewers without the hassle of software installation or training. The costs are very low (~$10/article), and so academic, scholarly, peer-reviewed journals can survive and thrive absent heavy subsidy. Contact Digital Publishing for more information about launching a new (or migrating an existing) scholarly and Open Access journal.

Finally, save the dates for two interrelated events in April: the Bookfeast and the E-Books Freakout. The Bookfeast will celebrate independently-published works with readings by the authors themselves. The E-Books Freakout, on the other hand, will be a more serious exploration of some of the difficult issues surrounding the acquisition and preservation of such born-digital works. Participants will ponder the future of e-books vis-à-vis the future of reading and the future of library collections.