Grand Valley State University

Mary Idema Pew Library Learning and Information Commons

Collections and Digital Scholarship

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 of publishing efforts (1-3): 3 - Established
Stage comments:
Open access focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program advisory/editorial board: No
Peer reviewed journals: 75%

Staffing (in full-time equivalents):

Professional staff: 2

Funding sources for publishing activities:

Library operating budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; datasets; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, inactive back-issues; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

	2021	Open access
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty	2	2
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases
Datasets
Educational resources (e.g., textbooks, course modules)	2
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)	39
Journals, campus-based faculty-created	10
Journals, campus-based student-created	4
Journals, contracted by external groups
Journals, inactive back issues
Monographs
Newsletters
Technical/research reports	1
Undergraduate capstones/honors theses	62

2021: New publications from July 2020 to June 2021. 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 offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.

Highlights

Top publications:

Online Readings in Psychology and Culture (journal)
Mathematical Reasoning (textbook)
Trigonometry (textbook)
The Foundation Review (journal)
ETDs

Disciplinary specialties:

mathematics
cross-cultural psychology
reading
language arts
philanthropy

Partners

Internal partners: campus departments or programs

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)

Technologies & Services

Media formats:

data
images
text
video

Softwares & platforms:

Digital Commons (bepress)
Pressbooks

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

Digital preservation strategy:

Amazon Glacier
Amazon S3
CLOCKSS
LOCKSS
Portico

Additional Information

Plans for expansion & future directions:
In 2021, the GVSU Libraries were awarded an internal grant to accelerate support for Open Educational Resources (OER), including OER publishing capacity. As part of this initiative, we are piloting a student position focused on editorial and production work, minigrants to cover production costs related to library-published materials, and open textbook development programs. In addition to using the Digital Commons and PressbooksEDU platforms, we’re experimenting with PreTeXt (pretextbook.org) versions of some mathematics OER previously published in PDF or LaTeX.

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