Library Publishing Directory

Cal Poly Humboldt

Cal Poly Humboldt Library

Academic Library · United States

The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt

https://press.humboldt.edu/

Kyle Morgan, Scholarly Communications and Digital Scholarship Librarian
Phone: 707-826-5602
Email: kem8@humboldt.edu

Program Overview

  • Publishing activities began: 2015
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • Publishing Languages: English; Spanish

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1.5
  • Individual people: 2
  • Students: Graduate student(s); Undergraduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Charitable contributions; Library materials budget; Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers or proceedings
  • Datasets
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Expansive digital publications
  • Grey literature
  • Journals
  • Monographs
  • Multimedia
  • Newsletters
  • Open educational resources
  • Posters


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 11
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 5
  • Campus-based student-created: 6
  • Peer-reviewed: 5
  • Currently inactive or archived: 4
Monograph/Book Publishing:
  • Monographs published: 5

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • The Gray Bird Sings: The Extraordinary Life of Betty Kwan Chinn (monograph)
  • Spanish I: Beginning Spanish Language and Culture (textbook)
  • California State University Journal of Sustainability and Climate Change (journal)
  • Humboldt Journal of Social Relations (journal)
  • Trịnh Công Sơn and Bob Dylan: Essays on Songwriting, Love, War and Religion (monograph)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Regional
  • Social and environmental justice
  • Educational
  • Sustainability

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: Consider external partners but only if in our disciplinary specialty
  • Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: California north coast content. Nonfiction print books difficult to publish through traditional publishers (e.g., full color publications, works with open license content, limited sales potential, etc.)
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
  • visualizations
Software & Platforms:
  • CONTENTdm
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
  • Omeka
  • Samvera (including Hyku or Hyrax)
  • Scalar
  • WordPress
Additional Services:
  • Compiling indexes and/or tables of contents
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • Developmental and/or substantive editing
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
  • audio/video streaming
  • cataloging
  • contract/license preparation
  • copyediting
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • image services
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • peer review management
  • print-on-demand
  • training
  • typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • In-house

Policies

  • Diversity Statement: https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/about.html

    • Other Policies:
    Land acknowledgment

    Links to Policies:
    https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/about.html