Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

Academic Library · United States

• https://lps.library.cmu.edu/
• librarypublishing@andrew.cmu.edu

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

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
  KiltHub is Carnegie Mellon University's institutional repository hosted on the figshare platform; they work to preserve and provide access to work produced by CMU faculty, staff, and students, including ETDs, research data, and multimedia. We collaborate directly with our Institutional Repository Specialist as individual projects require.
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  We do not currently work with Carnegie Mellon University (Three Rivers) Press. We do not currently work with ETC Press.
• 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)
• Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: Authors/editors who are members of the CMU community
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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