Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Robert E. Kennedy Library
Digital Scholarship ServicesUnited 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: services are distributed across library units/departments
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (1); paraprofessional staff (1); undergraduate students (2)
Funding sources (%):
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2015:
Library publications in 2015: campus-based faculty-driven journals (3); campus-based student-driven journals (5); faculty conference papers and proceedings (32); student conference papers and proceedings (4); newsletters (18); databases (1); ETDs (1254); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (2000); Learning objects (text and audiovisual files) *Please note: We have no way to pull out monographs and technical/research reports from scholarly works.
Number of open access titles:
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; The Forum; Between the Species; Symposium
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 50
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: graphic design (print or web); typesetting; copy-editing; marketing; outreach; training; cataloging; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; dataset management author copyright advisory; other author advisory; digitization hosting of supplemental content; audio/video streaming