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Brown University
Brown University Library
Academic Library · United StatesBrown University Digital Publications
https://library.brown.edu/create/digitalpublications/Allison Levy, Director
Phone: 401-863-1503
Email: allison_levy@brown.edu
Program Overview
Mission/Objectives:Brown University Digital Publications — a collaboration between the University Library and the Dean of the Faculty, generously launched with support from the Mellon Foundation with additional support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services — creates exciting new conditions for the production and sharing of knowledge. Widely recognized as accessible, intentional, and inclusive, Brown’s novel, university-based approach to digital content development is helping to set the standards for the future of scholarship in the digital age.
- Publishing activities began: 2015
- Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
- Open access focus: One priority among many
- Portion of Open Access publications: All
- Publishing Languages: English
Program Organization
- Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
- Advisory/editorial board: Yes
- Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 4
- Individual people: 4
- Students: Graduate student(s), Undergraduate student(s)
- Funding sources: Charitable contributions; Grants; Library operating budget
Publishing Activities
- Expansive digital publications
- Multimedia
Highlights
Top Publications:
- Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary [published by University of Virginia Press, 2020] (multimodal monograph)
- Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World [published by Stanford UP, 2022](multimodal monograph)
- A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures [published by MIT Press, 2022] (multimodal monograph)
- Brown University's Slavery and Justice Report with Commentary on Context and Impact [published by Brown University Digital Publications] (multimodal work)
Disciplinary Specialties:
- Humanities
- Humanistic social sciences
Partners
- Internal partners: Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
- Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
- Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
- Program’s openness to working with external partners: Open to working with any external partner
- Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: Longform scholarly work that requires digital content development expertise
- Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- data
- images
- modeling
- multimedia
- text
- video
- visualizations
Software & Platforms:
- locally developed software
- Manifold
- PubPub
- Scalar
- WordPress
Additional Services:
- author advisory - other
- author advisory - copyright
- Developmental and/or substantive editing
- DOI distribution
- analytics
- budget preparation
- cataloging
- contract/license preparation
- copyediting
- data visualization
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- hosting of supplemental content
- image services
- ISBN registry
- marketing
- metadata
- open URL support
- outreach
- training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Digital preservation services under discussion
Additional Information
Last Year:Most significant areas of expansion and growth include the addition of a full-time Assistant Editor and affiliate membership in AUPresses.
Future Plans:
Continued training programs for less-well-resourced authors and institutions; continued work with authors beyond the Brown campus (currently via the BUDP-MIT Press series On Seeing); continued exploration of best practices for accessibility and preservation and discoverability.
Highlighted Publication