California State University, Northridge

University Library

Academic Library · United States

Andrew Weiss, Digital Services Librarian
Email: apweiss111@gmail.com

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Our objective is to publish CSUN-related journals and original faculty research and data, and to provide a trusted home for master’s theses and doctoral dissertations.

• Publishing activities began: 2012
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English; Spanish

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 2
• Individual people: 3
• Funding sources: Library operating budget; non-library campus budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Datasets
• Educational resources
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Monographs
• Multimedia
• Newsletters
• Posters

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  
• Program’s 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 which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

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