Library Publishing Directory

Eastern Kentucky University

Eastern Kentucky University Libraries

Academic Library · United States

Collections & Discovery

https://encompass.eku.edu

Bailey Lake, Open Strategies Librarian
Email: bailey.lake@eku.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
To provide open access to EKU's scholarship and the scholarship of others and to support the mission of EKU, which is regional engagement and student and faculty achievement
  • Publishing activities began: 2010
  • 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: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 2
  • Individual people: 3
  • Students: Undergraduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Library materials budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers or proceedings
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Journals
  • Monographs
  • Multimedia
  • Open educational resources
  • Posters


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 2
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 2
  • Peer-reviewed: 2
  • Currently inactive or archived: 3
Open Educational Resources Publishing:
  • Open Educational Resources: 1
  • Peer-reviewed Open Educational Resources: 1

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Journal of Occupational Therapy Education (journal)
  • Graduate Scholarship (graduate student scholarship)
  • Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience (open educational resource)
  • Kentucky Journal of Undergraduate Studies (journal)
  • Dennis Cokely Collection (multimedia open educational resource)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • African American studies
  • Security
  • Rhetoric and composition
  • Social work

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Individual faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  • Program’s openness to working with external partners: Open to working with any external partner
  • Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: Open to working with any external partner for monographs and open educational resources, and open to external partners with ties to EKU for journals.
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • images
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
  • Manifold
  • Pressbooks
Additional Services:
  • assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
  • Indexing services (e.g.
  • copyediting
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • image services
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • peer review management
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon Glacier
  • Digital preservation services under discussion

Policies

  • Author Rights/Copyright Information: https://encompass.eku.edu/author-rights.html

    • Additional Information

    Last Year:
    EKU Libraries is expanding publishing efforts to include undergraduate and graduate Open Pedagogy projects.
    Future Plans:
    Exploring and strengthening consortia partnerships to support publishing in a sustainable manner.