George Mason University
University Libraries
Mason PublishingUnited States
Primary Contact:
Wally Grotophorst
Associate University Librarian
703-993-9005
Program Overview
Mason Publishing combines a robust digital library publishing program with the George Mason University Press to provide a full range of scholarly publishing services to the university
Year publishing activities began: 2009
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (4); graduate students (1)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (90); charitable contributions/Friends of the Library organizations (5); sales revenue (5)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2015:
Library publications in 2015: campus-based faculty-driven journals (4); campus-based student-driven journals (1); newsletters (2); ETDs (243); Oral histories
Number of open access titles:
Number of paid titles:
Number of hybrid titles:
Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data
Disciplinary specialties: Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly; Journal of Mason Graduate Research; New Voices in Public Policy
Top publications: PLASMA: Combining Predicate Logic and Probability for Information Fusion and Decision Support
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners:
Publishing platform(s): DSpace; OJS; Wordpress; Luna Imaging
Digital preservation strategy: Amazon S3; CLOCKSS; LOCKSS
Additional services: graphic design (print or web); print-on-demand; typesetting; copy-editing; ISSN registry dataset management author copyright advisory; other author advisory; digitization hosting of supplemental content