Claremont University Consortium
Claremont Colleges Library
Collections Services and Scholarly Communication (CSSC)scholarship@cuc.claremont.edu
http://scholarship.claremont.edu
United States
Primary Contact:
Allegra Swift
Scholarly Communication & Digital Publishing Coordinator
909-607-0893
Program Overview
The Claremont Colleges Library publishing program provides centralized access to research and scholarship produced by faculty, students and librarians. The library publishes quality open access journals and unique digital collections originating from the Claremont Colleges. Scholarship@Claremont is an open access scholarship repository and publishing platform with a set of services to capture, store, index, and provide access to scholarship produced by the Claremont Colleges academic community. It offers worldwide access to the scholarly output from Pomona College, Claremont Graduate University, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, Keck Graduate Institute, and the Claremont Colleges Library. Undergraduate research figures prominently as do the journals that range from undergraduate conference papers to interdisciplinary and discipline specific publications with global contribution and access. Scholarship@Claremont brings together the Claremont Colleges’ scholarship into one location to maximize visibility, influence, and benefit for the individual as well as the institutions.
Year publishing activities began: 2006
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (1)
Funding sources (%): library materials budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2017:
Library publications in 2017: campus-based faculty-driven journals (8); campus-based student-driven journals (4); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (1); technical/research reports (3); faculty conference papers and proceedings (5); student conference papers and proceedings (8); ETDs (137); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (894); curriculum tools; library conference proceedings; undergraduate research awards; digital collections; lectures and symposia (4)
Number of open access titles: journals (11)
Number of paid titles:
Number of hybrid titles:
Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data; concept maps, modeling, maps, or other visualizations; multimedia/interactive content
Disciplinary specialties: arts and humanities; social and behavioral sciences; physical and mathematical sciences; life sciences; business
Top publications: Senior theses; Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (journal); Scripps senior theses; Performance Practice Review (journal)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 70
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students
External partners: Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons); Scalar; Omeka
Digital preservation strategy: Amazon S3; In the process of establishing a private LOCKSS network.
Additional services: marketing; outreach; training; analytics; cataloging; notification of A&I sources; ISSN registry; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; open URL support; contract/license preparation; author copyright advisory; other author advisory; digitization hosting of supplemental content; audio/video streaming
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Growing support for existing publications and alternative/non-traditional publications and possibly expanding into open educational resources and textbooks.View All Entries