Grand Valley State University

Mary Idema Pew Library Learning and Information Commons

Academic Library · United States

• https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu

Collections and Digital Scholarship

https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu

Jacklyn Rander, Senior Publishing Services Manager
Phone: 616-331-2623
Email: randerja@gvsu.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The Grand Valley State University Libraries provide digital infrastructure and support for open access publishing in order to remove barriers to knowledge and improve educational equity for a global community of learners. Through our institutional repository and library publishing services, we collect, maintain, and share works affiliated with GVSU, including journals, open educational resources (OER), conference proceedings, and ETDs.

• Publishing activities began: 2008
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: Most
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 2
• Individual people: 3
• Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers or proceedings
• Datasets
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Newsletters
• Open educational resources
• Posters

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Undergraduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  
• Program’s openness 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 which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

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Policies

ScholarWorks@GVSU Policies - Accessibility heading

ScholarWorks@GVSU Policies - Copyright heading: https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/library_reports/21/

ScholarWorks@GVSU Policies - Metadata Principles heading: https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/library_reports/21/

ScholarWorks@GVSU Policies - Content Storage and Backups heading: https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/library_reports/21/

ScholarWorks@GVSU Policies -Changes and Withdrawals: https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/library_reports/21/

Adopted Policies:
Committee on Publication Ethics