Library Publishing Directory

Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

Academic Library · United States

Library Publishing Service

https://lps.library.cmu.edu/

Talia Perry, Digital Projects & Publishing Specialist
Email: taperry@andrew.cmu.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries Publishing Service (LPS) supports scholarly journals, online exhibitions, and other open access digital projects to promote learning, share research, and engage a wider public audience. LPS is part of the emerging innovations the CMU Libraries offer to support the growing digital publishing needs of the CMU community.
  • Publishing activities began: 2010
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1.5
  • Individual people: 2
  • Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Grey literature
  • Journals
  • Open educational resources (textbooks/course modules)


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 4
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 2
  • Campus-based student-created: 1
  • Contracted by external groups: 1
  • Peer-reviewed: 3
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 0

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Encyclopedia of the History of Science (journal)
  • Learning Development Research (journal)
  • Negotiation and Conflict Management Research (journal)
  • Majāl (undergraduate journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Humanities (history, English)
  • Social science (psychology)
  • Business and economics
  • Computer sciences

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia
  • text
Software & Platforms:
  • Janeway
  • locally developed software
  • Omeka
  • WordPress
Additional Services:
  • assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
  • Indexing services (e.g.
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • analytics
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISSN registry
  • outreach
  • peer review management
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Digital preservation services under discussion
  • In-house