California State University

Consortium · United States

Systemwide Digital Library Services

https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/administration/sdls

David Walker, Director, Systemwide Digital Library Services
Phone: 562-951-4262
Email: dwalker@calstate.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Systemwide Digital Library Services provides a shared institutional repository that collects, preserves, and provides access to scholarship produced by research communities at the California State University, as well as an open journals program that hosts and supports both faculty- and student-focused journals.
  • Publishing activities began: 2007
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • Publishing Languages: English and Spanish

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Organization (e.g., non-profit association, library consortium) that provides or supports library publishing activities on behalf of its library members
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 2
  • Individual people: 3

Publishing Activities



Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 13
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 13
  • Currently inactive or archived: 5

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Education

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Graduate students
  • Program’s openness to working with external partners: Only work with internal partners