Library Publishing Directory

2019

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College Library

Digital Library Program

2019 CONTACT:
Daniel Chamberlain, Associate Librarian for Digital Strategies
Phone: 603-646-2582
Email: daniel.d.chamberlain@dartmouth.edu

Program Overview

Provide open access, online publishing of scholarly publications that are created by Dartmouth faculty or students, or are published by Dartmouth. Selected digital exhibits and faculty-generated web-based collections of scholarly content are also in scope. All content is published openly online.

Publishing Activities Began: 2002
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 1.95
  • Paraprofessional staff:
  • Graduate students:
  • Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Materials Budget: 10%
  • Library Operating Budget: %
  • Non-library Campus Budget: %
  • Endowment Income: 10%
  • Charitable Contributions: %
  • Grants: %
  • Sales Revenue: %
  • Licensing Revenue: %
  • Charge Backs: %
  • Other: 80%

Publishing Activities

All Library Publishing Activities:
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 4
Open Access Publishing:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 2
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 4
  • Monographs: 4

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • linguistics
  • electronic or “new” media
  • Native American history
  • history of Arctic exploration
  • humanities
Top Publications:
  • Jewelry Design Books of Jaques and Marcus, 1890 to 1910 (digital book project)
  • The Brut Chronicle (digital project)
  • Linguistic Discovery (journal)
  • Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by William V. Spanos (digital book)
  • Occom Circle Project (digital collection)

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
University Press Partners: University Press of New England

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • concept maps or other visualizations
  • data
  • images
  • modeling
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • CONTENTdm
  • bepress (Digital Commons)
  • locally developed software
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Digital preservation services under discussion
  • DPN
  • HathiTrust
  • In-house
  • LOCKSS
  • Portico
  • Preservica
Additional Services:
  • analytics
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • budget preparation
  • business model development
  • cataloging
  • data visualization
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • open URL support
  • outreach
  • peer review management
  • training

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
Publishing more works in conjunction with the University Press of New England, further developing technical capacity for journals, monographs and other types of works, increasing the number of digital editions, and building out our services and technical support for student journal publishing.
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