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: kyle.morgan@humbolt.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt publishes high-quality scholarly, intellectual, and creative works by or in support of our campus community. The Press supports the Cal Poly Humboldt mission to improve the human condition and our environment by promoting understanding of social, economic, and environmental issues.
  • Publishing activities began: 2015
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • Publishing Languages: Primarily English; occasionally 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 and proceedings
  • Datasets
  • Educational resources
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Expansive digital publications
  • Grey literature
  • Journals
  • Monographs
  • Multimedia
  • Posters


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 9
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 2
  • Campus-based student-created: 3
  • Peer-reviewed: 4
  • Currently inactive or archived: 3
Monograph/Book Publishing:
  • Monographs published: 9
  • Peer-reviewed: 1
Open Educational Resources Publishing:
  • Open Educational Resources: 1
  • Peer-reviewed Open Educational Resources: 1

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • History of Humboldt County People and Places series (monograph series)
  • Spanish I: Beginning Spanish Language and Culture (textbook)
  • The American LGBTQ Rights Movement: An Introduction (textbook)
  • Humboldt Journal of Social Relations (journal)
  • Far Less (novel)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Regional
  • Environmental
  • Social justice
  • Open education

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
  • 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)
  • Hyrax)
  • Samvera (including Hyku

Additional Services:
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • Developmental and/or substantive editing
  • analytics
  • applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
  • audio/video streaming
  • cataloging
  • compiling indexes and/or TOCs
  • contract/license preparation
  • copyediting
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • peer review management
  • print-on-demand
  • training
  • typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Archive-It

Policies


Other Policies:
Land acknowledgment