Overview
The Illinois Open Publishing Network (IOPN) is a set of digital publishing services and platforms that are hosted and coordinated by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library. IOPN offers publishing services to members of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign community and beyond. These services include monograph and journal publishing in one of the four supported platforms: Scalar, Pressbooks, Omeka S, and Open Journal Systems.
Access
Access to publishing resources is available to publication candidates through arrangement with IOPN staff. IOPN publications are available to the public at iopn.library.illinois.edu/books and iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals.
Contact
To submit a general question, request training, or report a system outage, contact: iopn-admin@library.illinois.edu.
Documentation
Internal documentation is hosted on the library wiki and is only available to library staff. Guides for authors are available upon email request at iopn-admin@library.illinois.edu.
Policies
https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/policies/
Publications and Presentations
Bailey, R.W., Green, H., & Thomas-Houston, M. (2015, September). Publishing Without Walls: eBlack Studies and a new collaboration for digital publishing. Panel presented at the ASALH 100th Annual Meeting and Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. (Online abstract)
Bonn, M. (2016, April 18). Understanding the needs of scholars in a contemporary publishing environment. Panel presentation at FORCE2016, Portland, Oregon.
Green, H. & Courtney, A. (2016, July 29). Update on Humanities Collaboration and Research Practices and Publishing Without Walls. Humanities Without Walls Consortial Partners Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Alex, Dryden & Tracy, D. G. (2023). Creating a Full Multitenant Back End User Experience in Omeka S with the Teams Module. The Code4Lib Journal, 57. https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/17389
Source Code
Publishing platforms are FOSS available through the following repositories or organizations:
These systems are implemented with various plugins and dependencies, not listed here.