Brigham Young University
Harold B. Lee Library
Scholarly Communications
Ellen Amatangelo, Scholarly Communications CoordinatorEmail: ellen_amatangelo@byu.edu
Program Overview
Brigham Young University’s institutional repository, ScholarsArchive, houses scholarly and creative content produced by faculty, staff, students, and associations at the university. ScholarsArchive makes open access journals, theses and dissertations, student projects, conferences, competitions, and community collections available to a global research audience.
- Publishing activities began: 2001
- Location: United States
- Languages published: English; Spanish; Portuguese; German; French; Japanese
- Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
- Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 3 - Established
- Stage comments:
- Open access focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
- Program advisory/editorial board: Yes
- Peer reviewed journals: 100%
- Professional staff: 1
- Undergraduates: 1.5
- Library operating budget: 80%
- Charitable contributions: 20%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; databases; datasets; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; journals, inactive back-issues; monographs; newsletters; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.| 2021 | Open access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference papers and proceedings, faculty | ||||
| Conference papers and proceedings, student | ||||
| Databases | 1 | 1 | ||
| Datasets | 17 | 17 | ||
| Educational resources (e.g., textbooks, course modules) | ||||
| Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) | 500 | 500 | ||
| Journals, campus-based faculty-created | 4 | 4 | ||
| Journals, campus-based student-created | ||||
| Journals, contracted by external groups | 1 | 1 | ||
| Journals, inactive back issues | ||||
| Monographs | ||||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Technical/research reports | ||||
| Undergraduate capstones/honors theses | 54 | 54 |
2021: New publications from July 2020 to June 2021. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.
OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.
Highlights
- Theses and Dissertations
- Faculty Publications
- BYU Studies Quarterly (journal)
- Children's Book and Media Review
- Student Works
- Mormon Studies
- family, home, and social sciences
- children's literature
- student research
- engineering
Partners
Internal partners: campus departments or programsOpenness 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)
Best publications to refer to our program: born-digital open access journals; print journals wishing to convert to digital; theses and dissertations; faculty works; student projects; community collections
Technologies & Services
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
- CONTENTdm
- Digital Commons (bepress)
- locally developed software
- analytics
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- cataloging
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- hosting of supplemental content
- image services
- marketing
- metadata
- outreach
- peer review management
- training
- Amazon S3
- HathiTrust
- Rosetta
Additional Information
Plans for expansion & future directions:Expansion of open textbook hosting, expanding streaming audio and video services, adding multimedia options to the repository
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