Jumping Into the Deep End: Lessons Learned from Editing a Book about Open Movements

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7-4-2026 1:10 PM

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7-4-2026 1:40 PM

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In 2023, we had a great idea: let’s make an open access book about open movements! Little did we know, this experience would change us all as we learned and grew alongside the authors who contributed to our volume, Open Movements: Recognizing Challenges and Building Connections.

Open Movements is about a lot of things: it’s about the institutional initiatives that support open scholarship, the vendors and programs that connect practitioners to the ideals of openness, and the barriers we run into when we try to communicate all that “Open” can be. Despite coming from separate institutions with backgrounds spanning open access, open education, and open metadata, as editors for this volume we learned a lot about Open beyond our frames of view.

In this session, we’ll share our lessons learned from this experience, and how getting exposed to all the things that open can be through our books' contributors helped us rethink the ways we approach our work. We'll also outline the process we went through to publish our book, from developing the call for chapter proposals to managing the peer review process and compiling the chapters into the final publication, for others interested in a project like this.

Author Bios

Abbey K. Elder is the Open Education Services Librarian at Iowa State University and Statewide Open Education Coordinator for the Iowa Open Education Action Team. In these roles, she supports faculty and staff interested in open education and develops programming and professional development on related topics such as open science, open access, and copyright.

Byran T. Ricupero is the Head of Metadata Services and Strategies at Dartmouth College Libraries. He oversees a centralized metadata unit that provides support for several platforms and their associated workflows.

Shannon M. Smith is the Chair of Collection Management at University of Wyoming Libraries.  She has been an advocate for open knowledge and practices for the past decade. A SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow from 2020-2021, her work empowers students and instructors to engage in learning experiences beyond the classroom.

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Jumping Into the Deep End: Lessons Learned from Editing a Book about Open Movements

In 2023, we had a great idea: let’s make an open access book about open movements! Little did we know, this experience would change us all as we learned and grew alongside the authors who contributed to our volume, Open Movements: Recognizing Challenges and Building Connections.

Open Movements is about a lot of things: it’s about the institutional initiatives that support open scholarship, the vendors and programs that connect practitioners to the ideals of openness, and the barriers we run into when we try to communicate all that “Open” can be. Despite coming from separate institutions with backgrounds spanning open access, open education, and open metadata, as editors for this volume we learned a lot about Open beyond our frames of view.

In this session, we’ll share our lessons learned from this experience, and how getting exposed to all the things that open can be through our books' contributors helped us rethink the ways we approach our work. We'll also outline the process we went through to publish our book, from developing the call for chapter proposals to managing the peer review process and compiling the chapters into the final publication, for others interested in a project like this.