Brigham Young University
Harold B. Lee Library
Scholarly Communication Unitscholarsarchive@byu.edu
sites.lib.byu.edu/scholarsarchive
United States
Primary Contact:
Elizabeth Smart
Scholarly Communication Librarian
801-422-4995
Program Overview
Year publishing activities began: 2001
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: library staff (2); undergraduate students (0.5)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (98); charge backs (2)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2014:
Library publications in 2014: faculty-driven journals (9); student-driven journals (3); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (3); student conference papers and proceedings (1); databases (1); ETDs (640)
Number of open access titles:
Number of paid titles:
Number of hybrid titles:
Media formats: text; images
Disciplinary specialties: religion; natural history of the American West; children’s literature
Top publications: Western North American Naturalist (journal); BYU Studies (journal); Children’s Book and Play Review (journal); Pacific Studies (journal); TESL Reporter (journal)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 90
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners: International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC); Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists (AMCAP); Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL)
Publishing platform(s): CONTENTdm; OJS/OCS/OMP
Digital preservation strategy: Rosetta (moving from beta to full implementationin 2013)
Additional services: analytics; cataloging; metadata; peer review management; digitization; hosting of supplemental content
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Areas of future exploration and possible expansion include monograph publishing, print on demand, DOI support, hosting streaming media, and data management.View All Entries