Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI)

Consortium · United States

• https://press.palni.org/
• press@palni.edu

PALNI Presss

https://press.palni.org/

Amanda Hurford, Scholarly Communications Director
Phone: 317-747-0507
Email: amand@palni.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
PALNI Press is committed to disseminating the diverse scholarly, creative, and educational content from PALNI-supported institutions and their academic communities, helping them meet their teaching and learning objectives. This service provides the capacity to create and host open access publications such as journals, textbooks, monographs, and digital exhibits, without the costs associated with program design or platform maintenance and hosting.

• Publishing activities began: 2017
• Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across several campuses
• Advisory/editorial board: Yes
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1.25
• Individual people: 2
• Funding sources: Grants; library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Datasets
• Educational resources
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Monographs
• Newsletters
• Posters

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; individual faculty
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g., local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

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Policies

Additional Information

Last Year:
Expanded discovery services; more hands-publishing activities (editorial, production, outreach) with the PALSave Textbook Creation Grant projects.

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