Connecticut College
Charles E. Shain Library
Special Collectionsdigitalcommons.conncoll.edu
United States
Primary Contact:
Benjamin Panciera
Director of Special Collections
860-439-2654
Program Overview
Connecticut College seeks to make the products of student and faculty research and campus resources as widely available as possible through its institutional repository. Mandatory electronic submission of student honors theses began in 2011. The faculty overwhelmingly passed an open access policy in 2013, and the library has supported this by retrospectively making faculty research available through the institutional repository.
Year publishing activities began: 2006
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: library staff (1.5)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
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Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2014:
Library publications in 2014: faculty conference papers and proceedings (20); newsletters (3); undergraduate capstone/honors theses (60)
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Media formats: text; audio
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Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; undergraduate students
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Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons)
Digital preservation strategy: digital preservation services under discussion; no digital preservation services provided
Additional services: cataloging; metadata; author copyright advisory; digitization; hosting of supplemental content; audio/video streaming
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Seeking to optimize faculty participation and maximize the amount of available research in the institutional repository and inform faculty of the possibility of using the repository to make available unpublished material like conference papers and datasets.View All Entries