Library Publishing Directory

East Carolina University

Academic Library Services

Academic Library · United States

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 (textbooks/course modules)


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 6
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 4
  • Contracted by external groups: 2
  • Peer-reviewed: 6
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 0
  • Currently inactive or archived: 1

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Theory and Practice in Rural Education (journal)
  • Engineering Design Graphics Journal (journal)
  • North Carolina Libraries (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Library science
  • Rural education
  • Engineering

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • data
  • text
Software & Platforms:
  • Dataverse
  • DSpace
  • Omeka
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  • Pressbooks
Additional Services:
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISSN registry
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • PKP Open Preservation Network
  • LOCKSS

Additional Information

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