Grand Valley State University
Mary Idema Pew Library
Collections & Digital Scholarship Department
2019 CONTACT:Jacklyn Rander, Publishing Services Manager
Phone: 616-331-2623
Email: randerja@gvsu.edu
Program Overview
In order to increase visibility and access, Grand Valley State University Libraries provides open access infrastructure and support for the publication of scholarly, educational, and creative works affiliated with GVSU, including journals, open education materials, conference proceedings, and ETDs.
Publishing Activities Began: 2008
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 75%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 75%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 1
- Paraprofessional staff:
- Graduate students:
- Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: %
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
- Non-library Campus Budget: %
- Endowment Income: %
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: %
- Sales Revenue: %
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: %
- Other: %
Publishing Activities
All Library Publishing Activities:- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 10
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 4
- Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 415
- ETDs: 39
- Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses: 105
Open Access Publishing:
- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 17
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 9
Hybrid Publishing:
- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 2
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
- psychology
- public health
- history
- language arts
- mathematics
Top Publications:
- Online Readings in Psychology and Culture (journal)
- Active Calculus (book)
- Language Arts Journal of Michigan (journal)
- Mathematical Reasoning (book)
- ETDs
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsBest publications to refer to our program: Midwestern History Association; Michigan Council of Teachers of English; International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology; Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy; Michigan Public Health Association
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- data
- images
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- bepress (Digital Commons)
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Amazon Glacier
- Amazon S3
- CLOCKSS
- LOCKSS
- Portico
Additional Services:
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- cataloging
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISSN registry
- metadata
- outreach
- peer review management
- training
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:Exploring the opportunities created by bringing together publishing services, scholarly communications, special collections and university archives, and digital preservation programs into a new unit.
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