Library Publishing Directory

California Polytechnic State University

Robert E. Kennedy Library

Academic Library · United States



Katherine O'Clair, Associate Dean for Academic Services
Phone: 805-756-2690
Email: koclair@calpoly.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
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.
  • Publishing activities began: 2008
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across library units/departments
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1
  • Individual people: 1
  • Students: Undergraduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Charitable contributions, Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Journals


Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Senior projects
  • Master's theses
  • Symposium (journal)
  • Between the Species (journal)
  • Focus (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Science & technology
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Literature
  • Communications

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
  • locally developed software
  • WordPress
Additional Services:
  • author advisory - other
  • cataloging
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3
  • Archive-It
  • LOCKSS
  • MetaArchive

Policies

Diversity, equity, and inclusion statement, Other (please specify)