Claremont Colleges Library

Digital Technology and Scholarship

2019 CONTACT:
Jennifer Beamer, Scholarly Communication Coordinator
Phone: 909 607 3777
Email: jennifer.beamer@claremont.edu

Program Overview

The Claremont Colleges Library provides access to scholarship and journals produced by Pomona College, Claremont Graduate University, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, Keck Graduate Institute, the Library, and affiliated scholars.

Publishing Activities Began: 2006
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):

Professional staff: 5
Paraprofessional staff:
Graduate students:
Undergraduates:

Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:

Library Materials Budget: 100%
Library Operating Budget: %
Non-library Campus Budget: %
Endowment Income: %
Charitable Contributions: %
Grants: %
Sales Revenue: %
Licensing Revenue: %
Charge Backs: %
Other: %

Publishing Activities

Open Access Publishing:

Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 8
Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 4
Journals Produced for External Groups: 1

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:

physical and mathematical sciences
life sciences
social and behavioral sciences
arts and humanities
business

Top Publications:

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (journal)
CMC senior theses
Scripps senior theses
Performance Practice Review (journal)

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students

Best publications to refer to our program: Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:

audio
concept maps or other visualizations
data
images
multimedia/interactive content
text
video

Softwares & Platforms:

CONTENTdm
Digital Commons (bepress)
Scalar

Digital Preservation Strategy:

Amazon S3
LOCKSS

Additional Services:

analytics
author advisory – copyright
author advisory – other
cataloging
contract/license preparation
dataset management
digitization
DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
hosting of supplemental content
ISSN registry
marketing
metadata
notification of A&I sources
open URL support
outreach
training

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
Growing support for existing publications and alternative/non-traditional publications and expanding into open educational resources and textbooks.

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