Library Publishing Directory
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Robert E. Kennedy Library
Academic Library · United StatesKatherine O’Clair, Associate Dean, Library Services
Phone: 805-756-2690
Email: koclair@calpoly.edu
Program Overview
Mission/Objectives:The Robert E. Kennedy Library provides digital services to assist and advise the campus community with the creation, open access publication, sharing, and preservation of research, scholarship, and creative activities.
- Publishing activities began: 2008
- Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
- Open access focus: Central to mission
- Portion of Open Access publications: All
Program Organization
- Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across library units/departments
- Advisory/editorial board: No
- Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1
- Individual people: 1
- Students: Undergraduate student(s)
- Funding sources: Charitable contributions; library operating budget
Publishing Activities
- Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
- Journals
Highlights
Top Publications:
- Senior projects
- Master's theses
- Symposium (journal)
- Between the Species (journal)
- Focus (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
- Science
- History
- Philosophy
- Literature
- Communications
Partners
- Internal partners: Campus departments or programs
- Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
- Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
- Program’s openness to working with external partners: Open to working with any external partner
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- data
- images
- multimedia
- text
- video
- visualizations
Software & Platforms:
- Digital Commons (bepress)
- Islandora
- locally developed software
- WordPress
Additional Services:
- author advisory - other
- author advisory - copyright
- cataloging
- contract/license preparation
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISSN registry
- outreach
- peer review management
- training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Archive-It
- LOCKSS
- MetaArchive
Policies
Other Policies:
Institutional Repository Collection Development Policy