Georgia Southern University
University Libraries
Institutional Repository Services, Collection & Resource Services Department
2020 CONTACT:Jeffrey M. Mortimore, Discovery Services Librarian
Phone: 912-478-0102
Email: jmortimore@georgiasouthern.edu
Program Overview
Digital Commons@Georgia Southern is an open access digital repository that collects, archives, and disseminates the intellectual and creative output of the University’s faculty, staff, students, and community partners. Digital Commons hosts contributions from across the campus and the community, including campus documents and publications, faculty and student research, conferences, journals, research data, news, and more. Learn how Digital Commons can support your research while extending its reach.
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 75%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 0.3
- Paraprofessional staff: 3
- Undergraduates: 3
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, contracted by external groups; newsletters; undergraduate capstones/honors theses; campus policies; datasets.2019 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
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Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal | ||||
Campus-based Student-driven Journals | ||||
Databases | ||||
ETDs | ||||
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
Journals for External Groups | ||||
Monographs | ||||
Newsletters | ||||
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
Technical/Research Reports | ||||
Textbooks | ||||
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses |
2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. 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 may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.
Other/Additional Publishing Activities:
- Library Publishing Activities: campus policies; datasets
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsOpeness to Partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
Technologies & Services
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
- Digital Commons (bepress)
- analytics
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- cataloging
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISSN registry
- metadata
- notification of A&I sources
- open URL support
- outreach
- peer review management
- training
- CLOCKSS