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2022 Library Publishing Directory

Brigham Young University

Harold B. Lee Library

Scholarly Communications

  • https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/
  • ellen_amatangelo@byu.edu
  • Blog
Ellen Amatangelo, Scholarly Communications Coordinator
Email: 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%
Staffing (in full-time equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 1
  • Undergraduates: 1.5
Funding sources for publishing activities:
  • 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

Top publications:
  • Theses and Dissertations
  • Faculty Publications
  • BYU Studies Quarterly (journal)
  • Children's Book and Media Review
  • Student Works
Disciplinary specialties:
  • Mormon Studies
  • family, home, and social sciences
  • children's literature
  • student research
  • engineering

Partners

Internal partners: campus departments or programs

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)

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

Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing?

Work with a university press?

Administer a university press?

Technologies & Services

Media formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • text
  • video
Softwares & platforms:
  • CONTENTdm
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
  • locally developed software

Additional services:
  • 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
Digital preservation strategy:
  • Amazon S3
  • HathiTrust
  • Rosetta
Service vendors: bepress

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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