Eastern Kentucky University
Eastern Kentucky University Libraries
Collections and Discovery
Laura Edwards, Associate Director, Discovery and MetadataEmail: laura.edwards@eku.edu
Program Overview
To provide open access to EKU’s scholarship and the scholarship of others, and to support the mission of EKU, which is regional engagement, student and faculty achievement.
- Publishing activities began: 2010
- Location: United States
- Languages published: English
- Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
- Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 2 - Early
- Stage comments:
- Open access focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
- Program advisory/editorial board: No
- Peer reviewed journals: 100%
- Professional staff: 3
Funding sources for publishing activities:
- Library operating budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; undergraduate capstones/honors theses; graduate capstones.| 2021 | Open access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference papers and proceedings, faculty | 27 | 27 | ||
| Conference papers and proceedings, student | ||||
| Databases | ||||
| Datasets | ||||
| Educational resources (e.g., textbooks, course modules) | 0 | |||
| Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) | 22 | 22 | ||
| Journals, campus-based faculty-created | 2 | 2 | ||
| Journals, campus-based student-created | ||||
| Journals, contracted by external groups | ||||
| Journals, inactive back issues | ||||
| Monographs | ||||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Technical/research reports | ||||
| Undergraduate capstones/honors theses | 75 | 34 | 41 |
graduate capstones (32)
2021: New publications from July 2020 to June 2021. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.
OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.
Highlights
Top publications:
- JOTE (Journal of Occupational Therapy) (journal)
- Slavery to Liberation: the African American Experience (open textbook)
- Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
- KJUS (Kentucky Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship) (journal)
- JORA (Journal of Retracing Africa) (journal)
Disciplinary specialties:
- occupational therapy education
- African studies
- college teaching and learning
- undergraduate scholarship
Partners
Internal partners: campus departments or programsOpenness 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 that provides support for publishing?
Work with a university press?
Administer a university press?
Technologies & Services
Media formats:
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
Softwares & platforms:
- Digital Commons (bepress)
Additional services:
- audio/video streaming
- cataloging
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- ISBN registry
- ISSN registry
- peer review management
- training
- typesetting
Digital preservation strategy:
Service vendors: Bepress, CrossRef - Amazon Glacier
- Digital preservation services under discussion
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:Focus on OERs to support student success.
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