Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Robert E. Kennedy Library
Academic Serviceslibrary@calpoly.edu
lib.calpoly.edu
REKLibrary (Twitter)
United States
Primary Contact:
Dana Ospina
Open Content and Digital Publishing Librarian
805-756-7581
Program Overview
The Robert E. Kennedy Library provides digital services to assist and advise the campus community with the creation, open access publication, sharing, and preservation of research, scholarship, and creative activities.
Year publishing activities began: 2008
Organization: services are distributed across library units/departments
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (1); paraprofessional staff (1); undergraduate students (1)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2017: 4
Library publications in 2017: campus-based faculty-driven journals (2); campus-based student-driven journals (1); ETDs (329); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (250); learning objects (text and audiovisual files)
Number of open access titles: journals (4)
Number of paid titles:
Number of hybrid titles:
Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data; concept maps, modeling, maps, or other visualizations; code
Disciplinary specialties: science; history; philosophy; literature; communications
Top publications: Master’s theses; Senior projects; Symposium (journal); Between the Species (journal); Focus (journal)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 1
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners:
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons); Wordpress; locally developed software
Digital preservation strategy: LOCKSS, MetaArchive
Additional services: marketing; outreach; training; cataloging; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; ISSN registry; peer review management; contract/license preparation; author copyright advisory; other author advisory; digitization hosting of supplemental content; audio/video streaming
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Exploring open publishing platformsView All Entries