Claremont Colleges

Claremont Colleges Library

Academic Library · United States

• https://scholarship.claremont.edu/
• jenniferb@claremont.edu

Scholary Communications and Open Publishing

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/

Jennifer Beamer, Head of Scholarly Communications and Open Publishing

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
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
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: Most
• 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): 5
• Individual people: 5
• Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Educational resources
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Journals
• Monographs

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Open to working with any external partner
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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Policies

Additional Information

Last Year:
The unit has provided growing support for existing publications and alternative/nontraditional publications, and is expanding into open educational resources and textbooks.

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