Library Publishing Directory

2019

Brigham Young University

Harold B. Lee Library

Scholarly Communications Unit

2019 CONTACT:
Ellen Amatangelo, Scholarly Communications Coordinator
Phone: 801-422-7663
Email: ellen_amatangelo@byu.edu

Program Overview

Harold B. Lee Library’s institutional repository, ScholarsArchive, houses scholarly and creative content produced by Brigham Young University. ScholarsArchive makes research, publications, data, and journals produced by BYU faculty and students available to a global research audience.

Publishing Activities Began: 2001
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 1
  • Paraprofessional staff:
  • Graduate students: 0.5
  • Undergraduates: 0.5
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Materials Budget: %
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%
  • Non-library Campus Budget: %
  • Endowment Income: %
  • Charitable Contributions: %
  • Grants: %
  • Sales Revenue: %
  • Licensing Revenue: %
  • Charge Backs: %
  • Other: %

Publishing Activities

All Library Publishing Activities:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 9
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 4
  • Monographs: 5
  • Technical/Research Reports: 4
  • Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 32
  • Student Conference Papers and Proceedings: 33
  • ETDs: 468
  • Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses: 46
Open Access Publishing:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 27
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 4
  • Monographs: 23
Hybrid Publishing:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 1

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Mormon studies
  • Natural history of the American West
  • Children's literature
  • German women authors
  • Student research
Top Publications:
  • Theses and Dissertations (papers)
  • Faculty Publications (papers)
  • BYU Studies Quarterly (journal)
  • Children's Book and Media Review (journal)
  • Theses on Mormonism (papers)

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students


Best publications to refer to our program: International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC); Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists (AMCAP); Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL)

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • CONTENTdm
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Rosetta
Additional Services:
  • analytics
  • author advisory – copyright
  • cataloging
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • metadata
  • training

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
DOI support, hosting streaming media, hosting open access educational resources, expanded faculty services, expanded student involvement in the repository through student journals and research
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