2021 Library Publishing Directory

California State University, Northridge

Oviatt Library

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, 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%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • 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 programs

Openness 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
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