Increasing library involvement in journal hosting and publishing is an important topic for serialists and therefore this installment of "The Balance Point" column presents articles that offer descriptions and analysis of the current state of ideas and activities related to libraries as publishers. Featured authors discuss the publishing and journal hosting tasks libraries can perform, programs and activities related to journal hosting, titles hosted, challenges, next steps and the benefits or drawbacks foreseen in the current paths of the libraries they represent. IntroductionThe focus of this installment of "The Balance Point" is libraries as publishers. The column editor invited contributions from library staff whose libraries are involved, or becoming involved, in journal publishing and hosting. The contributors were invited to offer viewpoints and discuss their institutions' undertakings, ideas, activities and the reasoning behind choices made related to journal hosting and publishing. They were asked to examine progress to-date, next steps, and the benefits or drawbacks they envisioned for their institutions' current path. All of the contributors agree that libraries should be involved in journal hosting and publishing, but each of the libraries they represent is at a different stage in program development. Publishing programs and capabilities vary greatly amongst the libraries.Anali Maughan Perry (collections and scholarly communication librarian, Arizona State University Libraries) indicates that the library system at Arizona State is just putting the finishing touches on its institutional repository and beginning discussions of journal hosting and publishing services. Perry points out that publishing tasks can be broken down into smaller activities and that even if libraries and librarians may not be ready to offer an entire suite of publishing services, they can perform a multitude of services to aid in campus publishing activities.Carol Ann Borchert (coordinator for serials, University of South Florida Libraries) describes why and how the University of South Florida Libraries have become heavily involved in the publishing operations of several open access publications on campus. Borchert outlines some of the activities of the Libraries to support faculty research and to ensure that their work is available to the scholarly community. The author discusses challenges and next steps which include the creation and linking of a data portal.Timothy Deliyannides (director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing and head, Information Technology, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh) discusses the rapid growth of e-journal publishing at the University of Pittsburgh Libraries. He outlines the program's evolution in light of the institution's commitment to open access and innovation in 1 scholarly communication, and its' desire to build collaborative partnerships to improve the production of and access to scholarly research. Deliyannides suggests that e-publishing activities are no...

INTRODUCTION This paper explores the variability in self-identifying practices of academic libraries engaged in journal publishing and hosting activities. We were interested in how libraries characterized their efforts in this area and looked at whether there is an unspoken threshold for differentiation with respect to publishing-support naming conventions. METHODS Using the Library Publishing Directory, in-depth interviews, and a more widely circulated follow-up survey, the research team examined service offerings, divisions of responsibility, funding, terminology, and semantic associations within publishing, both as an active practice and as an advertised service. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION We aimed to tease out whether there was any sort of tipping point, or inferred rules, around when an institution chose to call the activity either publishing or hosting. We found no particular service, set of services, funding structure, or division of labor that obviously influenced the use of a particular term. Rather than noting a divide between publishing and hosting, participants spoke of both a spectrum and a tiering of work and support, though all emphasized that these models did not describe the quality of the work produced. This paper also discusses how use of the term library publishing creates additional ambiguity in naming practices, and considers some implications for library staff newly immersed in scholarly publishing work.

Embarking on a universitywide journal-hosting initiative can be a resource-intensive undertaking. Providing such a service, however, can be equally rewarding, as it positions the library as both partner and colleague in the publishing process. This paper discusses ideas and strategies for institutional journal hosting gleaned over two years by the York Digital Journals Project. Suggestions for startup including policy considerations and service models are discussed. Ideas for advertising and networking are explored as well as the question of project sustainability.

promotion, possibly raising archival science to an art, something that, in fact, these essays, taken together, achieve. As a unit, they open up what may seem prosaic views to different perspectives and show how "archival truth," like beauty, might vary from the eye of the viewer, archivist, historian, or user. While this is certainly not a basic introduction to the field, it elevates it and may excite many a practicing or learning archivist as to the power of archives. And whether it was the intention of the editors or not, power is a theme that seems to run through this collection-specifically revealed in how archives can be, and have been, centers of power and control. There is a lot to learn here, and a lot of learning, too. Translations of foreign phrases are nearly almost always given (a few Latin phrases excepted); there is a refreshing lack of jargon in most essays; the index and bibliographies and notes of each chapter are helpful. It's not often that such an intellectual book is also eminently approachable. The editors and contributors should be well pleased with their efforts; no doubt readers will be, too.

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