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Abstract
Library journal publishing can be a valuable way to support faculty scholarship, wherein much of the technical burden of publishing is centralized and managed by the library, freeing up faculty to editorially manage journals. However, such a distributed model can lead to inconsistencies. Despite all coming from a single publisher–the library–journals can follow publishing best practices to varying degrees, sometimes failing to fully share licensing, DOIs, and other information necessary for readers and prospective authors to evaluate the authority and relevance of the journal. To address this issue, one large public university created a journal publishing toolkit for their editors, so that faculty could improve the quality of their journals without having to do extensive planning and evaluation. This presentation aims to help others with library publishing programs improve editorial workflows so that they can better support faculty in creating impactful, trustworthy, and reliable journal scholarship. Presented at the 2025 Charleston Conference.