California State University, Northridge
Oviatt Library
Andrew Weiss, Digital Services LibrarianPhone: 818-677-2571
Email: andrew.weiss@csun.edu
Program Overview
Our objective is to publish new CSUN-related journals, original faculty research, and provide a trusted home for master’s theses and doctoral dissertations.
- Publishing Activities Began: 2012
- Location: United States
- Languages published: English, Spanish
- Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
- Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
- Stage Comments:
- Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
- Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
- Peer Reviewed Journals: 75%
- Professional staff: 1
- Paraprofessional staff: 1
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Operating Budget: 50%
- Non-library Campus Budget: 50%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; datasets; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; journals, inactive back-issues; monographs; newsletters; technical/research reports.Highlights
Top Publications:
- Journal on Technology & Persons with Disabilities (journal)
- The California Geographer (journal)
- The New Journal of Student Research Abstracts (journal)
- Tax Development Journal (journal)
- The Northridge Review (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
- geography
- disabilities
- taxation
- science (K-12)
- English literature
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programsOpenness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing? no
Work with a university press? no
Administer a university press? no
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- CONTENTdm
- DSpace
- OJS
- Samvera
Additional Services:
- author advisory – copyright
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- hosting of supplemental content
- metadata
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Amazon Glacier