Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Robert E. Kennedy Library
Digital Scholarship Servicesdigitalcommons.calpoly.edu/; lib.calpoly.edu/scholarship
United States
Primary Contact:
Marisa Ramirez
Digital Scholarship Services Librarian
805-756-7040
Program Overview
The Robert E. Kennedy Library provides digital services to assist the campus community with the creation, publication, sharing, and preservation of research, scholarship, and campus history.
Year publishing activities began: 2008
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: library staff (2); undergraduate students (3)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (98); endowment income (2)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2014:
Library publications in 2014: faculty-driven journals (6); student-driven journals (1); monographs (52); technical/research reports (102); faculty conference papers and proceedings (210); student conference papers and proceedings (160); newsletters (15); databases (1); ETDs (975); undergraduate capstone/honors theses (1841); graduate internship reports
Number of open access titles:
Number of paid titles:
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Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data; multimedia/interactive content
Disciplinary specialties: history; philosophy; sustainability
Top publications: senior undergraduate projects; master’s theses; Between the Species (journal); California Climate Action Planning (conference proceedings)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: individual faculty; undergraduate students
External partners:
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons)
Digital preservation strategy: digital preservation services under discussion; We are in the process of joining LOCKSS and MetaArchive.
Additional services: typesetting; copy-editing; marketing; outreach; training; analytics; cataloging; metadata; notification of A&I sources; ISSN registration; peer review management; business model development; author copyright advisory; other author advisory; digitization; hosting of supplemental content; audio/video streaming
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Hiring an Endowed Digital Scholarship Services Student Assistant through the Digital Scholarship Services Student Assistantship Program, which provides paid, experiential learning opportunities for Cal Poly students who are interested the various facets of the changing digital publishing landscape.View All Entries