California State University, Northridge
Oviatt Library
Collection Access and Management Services
2019 CONTACT:Andrew Weiss, Digital Services Librarian
Phone: 818-677-2571
Email: andrew.weiss@csun.edu
Program Overview
Our objective is to publish new CSUN-related journals and provide a trusted home for master’s theses and doctoral dissertations.
Publishing Activities Began: 2012
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across campus
Stage (1–5): 4 - Growing
Open Access Focus (1–5): 3 - Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 50%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across campus
Stage (1–5): 4 - Growing
Open Access Focus (1–5): 3 - Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 50%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 0.5
- Paraprofessional staff: 0.5
- Graduate students:
- Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: %
- Library Operating Budget: 50%
- Non-library Campus Budget: 50%
- Endowment Income: %
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: %
- Sales Revenue: %
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: %
- Other: %
Publishing Activities
All Library Publishing Activities:- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 3
- Journals Produced for External Groups: 1
- Technical/Research Reports: 3
- ETDs: 700
Open Access Publishing:
- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 5
- Journals Produced for External Groups: 1
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
- Geography
- Disabilities
- Tax
Top Publications:
- California Geographer
- Journal on Technology & Persons with Disabilities
- The New Journal of Student Research Abstracts
- Tax Development Journal
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual facultyTechnologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- data
- images
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- CONTENTdm
- DSpace
- OJS
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Amazon Glacier
- In-house
- LOCKSS
Additional Services:
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- cataloging
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- metadata
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:We hope to improve overall service and organization. We'd like to implement OJS on campus or with our sister campuses within the Cal State University system.
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