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Emory Center for Digital Scholarship

https://ecds.emory.edu/

Jesse P. Karlsberg, Senior Digital Scholarship Strategist
Email: jesse.p.karlsberg@emory.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Emory Libraries mission statement: https://libraries.emory.edu/about/organizational-framework. Emory Center for Digital Scholarship mission statement: https://ecds.emory.edu/about/index.html.

• Publishing activities began: 1994
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• 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): 10
• Individual people: 28
• Students: Graduate student(s), Undergraduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Grants, Library operating budget, Non-library campus budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers or proceedings
• Databases
• Datasets
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Expansive digital publications
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Monographs
• Multimedia
• Posters

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
  Individuals across units frequently collaborate on digital publishing projects and outreach.
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  We support the conceptualization, design, and development of digital publications published by other entities at Emory University.
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners but only if in our disciplinary specialty
• Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: Publications where Emory faculty, students, or staff are involved. Publications or projects where the topical focus aligns with our program’s disciplinary specialties.
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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Policies

Accessibility and Preservation Best Practices When Creating Your Thesis or Dissertation - Emory Theses and Dissertations: https://libraries.emory.edu/research/open-access-publishing/emory-repositories-policy/etd/policies-procedures

Intellectual Property - Southern Spaces: https://southernspaces.org/submission-guidelines/

Emory's Open Access Policy: https://libraries.emory.edu/research/open-access-publishing/emory-repositories-policies/emory-oa-policy

Peer Review Process - Southern Spaces: https://southernspaces.org/submission-guidelines/

Additional Information

Future Plans:
Our faculty scholarship repository, OpenEmory, which houses both original (unpublished) new works and previously published works, is evolving in a couple of ways. First, the repository’s scope has been expanded to include scholarly works from graduate students and staff, although theses and dissertations will continue to be house in the Emory Theses and Dissertations repository. Second, OpenEmory was launched in 2012, so it’s due for redevelopment, which is happening this year; we hope to launch a new Samvera Hyrax repository by the end of the calendar year. The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship is actively seeking partnerships with other institutions and individuals interested in using Readux, a platform for publishing thematic research collections and scholarly editions of digitized books, and OpenTourBuilder, a tool for creating mobile walking, biking, and driving tours, for their own publishing initiatives.

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