East Carolina University

Academic Library Services

Academic Library · United States

• https://library.ecu.edu/scholarly-communications/
• scholarlycomm@ecu.edu

Scholarly Communication

https://library.ecu.edu/scholarly-communications/

Joseph Thomas, Assistant Director for Collection Management and Scholarly Communication
Phone: 252-737-2728
Email: thomasw@ecu.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Academic Library Services supports the creation and dissemination of research produced by faculty and students at East Carolina University through The ScholarShip, ECU’s institutional repository, and through hosting scholarly journals that are published on Open Journal Systems software.

• Publishing activities began: 2009
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: Most
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across library units/departments
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 2
• Individual people: 4
• Funding sources: Library materials budget, Library operating budget, Non-library campus budget

Publishing Activities

• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Journals
• Open educational resources

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g., local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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Additional Information

Last Year:
Within the past year we have added Pressbooks and have some faculty interest.

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