Emory University

Emory University Libraries

Academic Library · United States

Emory Center for Digital Scholarship

https://ecds.emory.edu/

Jesse P. Karlsberg, Senior Digital Scholarship Strategist
Phone: 404-727-5705
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 campus
Advisory/editorial board: No
Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 10
Individual people: 28
Students: Graduate student(s)
Funding sources: Grants; library operating budget; non-library campus budget

Publishing Activities

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

Journal Publishing:

Journals published: 7
Campus-based faculty-created: 6
Campus-based student-created: 1
Peer-reviewed: 5

Highlights

Top Publications:

Apollo 15 Learning Hub (expansive digital project)
Slave Voyages (expansive digital project)
Post45 (journal)
Samothrace Mariner (video learning game)
Southern Spaces (journal)

Disciplinary Specialties:

Health sciences
History
Literary studies
Southern studies
Archaeology

Partners

Internal partners: Campus departments or programs; 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: 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

Media Formats:

audio
data
images
modeling
multimedia
text
video
visualizations

Software & Platforms:

Dataverse
Fedora
Hyrax)
locally developed software
Manifold
Omeka
Samvera (including Hyku
WordPress

Additional Services:

author advisory - other
author advisory - copyright
Indexing services (e.g. assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
analytics
audio/video streaming
cataloging
compiling indexes and/or TOCs
contract/license preparation
copyediting
data visualization
dataset management
digitization
DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
graphic design (print or web)
hosting of supplemental content
image services
metadata
outreach
peer review management
training
typesetting

Digital Preservation Strategy:

Amazon Glacier
Amazon S3
HathiTrust

Policies

Additional Information

Future Plans:
In 2020, we launched Emory Digital Collections, our feature-rich digital repository platform using the open source Samvera framework. We are planning the ingest of our existing institutional repository for faculty scholarship, OpenEmory, as well as our ETD repository, Emory Theses and Dissertations, into the larger Emory Digital Collections platform, which will also continue to ingest digital collections from Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, among others. 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.