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/

Rikk Mulligan, Digital Scholarship Strategist
Email: rikk@cmu.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries Publishing Service (LPS) provides an infrastructure to publish and host born-digital scholarly research and creative products. LPS is part of the emerging innovations the CMU Libraries offer to support the growing digital publishing needs of the CMU community. Our mission is to maximize open and free access to scholarly publications and products in a sustainable fashion for the the benefit of the general public.

• Publishing activities began: 2010
• Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
• 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
• Individual people: 1
• Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Datasets
• Educational resources
• Grey literature
• Journals

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Individual faculty; undergraduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  We do not 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)
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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