Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
Scholarly Publishing, Archives, and Data ServicesUnited States
Primary Contact:
Denise Troll Covey
Scholarly Communications Librarian
412-268-8599
Program Overview
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries’ publishing program aims to promote open access to scholarly resources by publishing gray literature, including theses, dissertations, and technical reports in our open access repository, Research Showcase @ CMU.
Year publishing activities began: 2010
Organization: services are distributed across library units/departments
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (1): paraprofessional staff (0.5)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2016:
Library publications in 2016: campus-based faculty driven journals (1); technical/research reports (75); ETDs (200); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (32)
Number of open access titles:
Number of paid titles:
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Media formats: text
Disciplinary specialties: social and behavioral sciences; engineering; physical and life sciences; arts and humanities; security
Top publications: Computer science; Dietrich College honors theses; Dissertations; Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality; Robotics
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners:
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons)
Digital preservation strategy: LOCKSS; MetaArchive
Additional services: marketing; outreach; training; analytics; cataloging; metadata; author copyright advisory; other author advisory; digitization hosting of supplemental content; audio/video streaming
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: We plan to migrate our IR from bepress Digital Commons to Fedora Hydra in 2016.View All Entries