As librarians and library publishers, we frequently engage in scholarly communication efforts that serve a social justice agenda. For example, at the University of San Francisco, we are proud to publish the International Journal of Human Rights Education, of which the latest issue is devoted to indigenous women in research. There are moments, however, when we are reminded that, despite our best efforts, we still operate in an educational and academic system that is rooted in white supremacy and colonialism. The following are examples of bias encountered by the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh’s (ULS) publishing program and others, as well as a discussion of the ways in which we as librarians and library publishers can push back against systemic injustices.

Data on cognitive function after pLT are rare, particularly regarding children with cognitive impairment. From 2016 to 2018, we evaluated cognitive function in 36 patients after pLT aged 6‐17 years with the WISC IV (at least 1 year after transplantation) and analyzed potential risk factors for cognitive impairment (IQ < 70) by means of retrospective medical data (peri‐, intra‐, and post‐operative factors, and donor and specific organ data of the primary liver transplant) on an exploratory base. At a median age of 9.6 years (range = 6‐16.9), 22% of patients were cognitive impaired (IQ < 70; including five untestable patients with severe cognitive impairment). Children tested with the WISC IV scored within the lower normal range but differed significantly from normal population. Strongest associations showed infections at pLT, development of severe sepsis requiring intensive care within the first 6 months after pLT, neurological complications within the first 10 days and the occurrence of CPR during or after pLT, and as early laboratory variables pH value on day 0 after pLT. In our analysis, neither intraoperative factors nor donor‐specific factors seemed to influence cognitive outcome. In our small cohort, medical complications before and after pLT but not transplantation itself had an influence on cognitive outcome. As such, children experiencing medical problems before and in the early post‐operative phase after pLT should be closely evaluated in larger samples regarding their neurological and psychomotor development during vulnerable phases and should receive early educational support to improve long‐term cognitive function.

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Abstr actThis Publisher's Report describes the collaboration between a university library system's scholarly communication and publishing office and a federally funded research team, the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Telerehabilitation. This novel interdisciplinary collaboration engages librarians, information technologists, publishing professionals, clinicians, policy experts, and engineers and has produced a new Open Access journal, International Journal of Telerehabilitation, and a developing, interactive web-based product dedicated to disseminating information about telerehabilitation. Readership statistics are presented for March 1, 2011 -February 29, 2012. Keywords: telerehabilitation, Open Access journalThe Libr ary as a Supporter of ResearchersAs part of its mission to "support researchers in the production and sharing of knowledge in a rapidly changing publishing industry" the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh (ULS) has partnered with the Rehabilitation Engineering and Research Center (RERC) on Telerehabilitation to produce the International Journal of Telerehabilitation (IJT). In its role as publisher, the ULS seeks to transform the traditional subscription-based model of scholarly communication, promote the principle of Open Access to scholarly research, and incentivize scholars worldwide to join in this commitment.This novel interdisciplinary collaboration engages librarians, information technologists, publishing professionals, practitioners, researchers, policy experts, and engineers. International Journal of Telerehabilitation (IJT)Established in 2008, the IJT is one of the first scholarly journals to publish peer-reviewed research specifically focused on telerehabilitation and includes original research, case studies, technical reviews, and policy papers. The IJT is published biannually and has thus far produced six issues and a pre-publication issue. Articles are vetted through a rigorous peer-review process for quality and then offered free of charge to the world through Open Access immediately upon publication. Authors retain copyright to their works through a Creative Commons license. No author fees are charged by the journal, further reducing the barriers to publish.The IJT provides an accessible version of all published articles formatted to work well with text-to-speech software. For non-textual content, the accessible version includes language that conveys a detailed description of the information contained within the graph, table, or image.The Open Journal Systems (OJS) software enables the flow of scholarly content from initial author submissions through online publication and indexing. The platform provides a set of reading tools to extend the use of scholarly content through RSS feeds and postings to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media so that potential readers can discover journal articles via blogs, databases, search engines, and library collections.The IJT is registered with several major indexing and abstracting services, such as the D...