Adelphi University Libraries

Swirbul Library

Academic Library · United States

Digital Scholarship

https://www.adelphi.edu/libraries/open-access/digital-publishing/

Christopher Barnes, Digital Publishing Librarian
Email: cbarnes@adelphi.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The publishing program at Adelphi University Libraries helps faculty and students share their work by supporting scholarly and student journals as well as utilizing the institutional repository to make their other work accessible to the world.
  • Publishing activities began: 2022
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
    To date, we publish one scholarly journal and one student journal
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: Most
  • Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 2
  • Individual people: 3
  • Students: Undergraduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers or proceedings
  • Datasets
  • Grey literature
  • Journals
  • Posters


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 2
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 2
  • Campus-based student-created: 1
  • Contracted by external groups: 1
  • Peer-reviewed: 1
  • Currently inactive or archived: 1

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Journal of Critical Study of Communication & Disability (scholarly journal)
  • Symposium: The Student Journal of the Adelphi University Honors College (student journal)

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Individual faculty
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
    University Communications also publishes magazines and other media that promotes the accomplishments and scholarship of the Adelphi Community. As of now, we have not yet collaborated with them.
  • 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): No

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  • WordPress

Additional Services:
  • assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
  • Indexing services (e.g.
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • Developmental and/or substantive editing
  • cataloging
  • copyediting
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • peer review management
  • training
  • typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Other (please specify)
  • PKP Open Preservation Network
  • CLOCKSS
  • LOCKSS

Policies

  • Web Accessibility at Adelphi University: https://www.adelphi.edu/accessibility/

  • Adopted Policies:
    National Center on Accessible Educational Materials at CAST: https://aem.cast.org/