Claremont University Consortium
Claremont Colleges Library
Center for Digital Initiativesscholarship@cuc.claremont.edu
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United States
Primary Contact:
Allegra Swift
Digital Initiatives Librarian
909-607-0893
Program Overview
The Center for Digital Initiatives facilitates the dissemination of knowledge by providing publishing platforms, consulting, and technical services to enable the creation and distribution of teaching and research resources to the scholarly community.
Year publishing activities began: 2006
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: library staff (2)
Funding sources (%):
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2014:
Library publications in 2014: faculty-driven journals (4); student-driven journals (4); technical/research reports (4); faculty conference papers and proceedings (63); student conference papers and proceedings (106); ETDs (162); undergraduate capstone/honors theses (1182); digital collections; lectures and symposia
Number of open access titles:
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Media formats: text; images; video; multimedia/interactive content
Disciplinary specialties: arts and humanities; social and behavioral sciences; physical and mathematical sciences; life sciences; business
Top publications: CMC senior theses; Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (journal); STEAM (journal); Scripps senior theses; LUX (journal); Performance Practice Review (journal)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners: Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons); CONTENTdm
Digital preservation strategy: Amazon Glacier; Amazon S3
Additional services: graphic design (print or web); marketing; outreach; training; analytics; cataloging; metadata; ISSN registration; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; open URL support; peer review management; business model development; contract/license preparation; author copyright advisory; other author advisory; digitization; hosting of supplemental content; audio/video streaming
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Possible expansion into areas of education and alternative/non-traditional publishing.View All Entries