College of Wooster
College of Wooster Libraries
Digital Scholarship and ServicesUnited States
Primary Contact:
Stephen Flynn
Emerging Technologies Librarian
330-263-2154
Program Overview
Our goal is to digitally preserve and promote the original scholarship of our faculty and students.
Year publishing activities began: 2012
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: library staff (1.5); undergraduate students (4)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
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: undergraduate capstone/honors theses (414)
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Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data
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Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; undergraduate students
External partners:
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons); DSpace; WordPress
Digital preservation strategy: in-house; digital preservation services under discussion
Additional services: metadata; digitization; hosting of supplemental content
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Migrating from DSpace to bepress, which may enable us to promote the publishing of new undergraduate journals.View All Entries