Grand Valley State University

Mary Idema Pew Library Learning and Information Commons

Academic Library · United States

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 (textbooks/course modules)
Posters

Journal Publishing:

Journals published: 8
Campus-based faculty-created: 8
Peer-reviewed: 8
Required fee to enable Open Access: 1
Currently inactive or archived: 15

Open Educational Resources Publishing:

Open Educational Resources: 5

Highlights

Top Publications:

Online Readings in Psychology and Culture (journal)
Mathematical Reasoning Writing and Proof, Version 3 (textbook)
Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture (journal)
Trigonometry (textbook)
The Foundation Review (journal)

Disciplinary Specialties:

Mathematics
Cross-cultural psychology
Reading
Language arts
Autistic culture

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:

audio
data
images
text
video

Software & Platforms:

Digital Commons (bepress)
Pressbooks

Additional Services:

assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
Indexing services (e.g.
author advisory - other
author advisory - copyright
analytics
digitization
DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
hosting of supplemental content
ISSN registry
metadata
training

Digital Preservation Strategy:

Amazon Glacier
Amazon S3
CLOCKSS
LOCKSS
Portico

Policies

Accessibility policy, Author rights/copyright policy, Name change policy, Preservation policy, Retraction/correction policy

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:

Highlighted Publication

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture is a peer-reviewed, biannual journal that aims to document autistic culture by publishing scholarly and creative works that examine and explore it. Ought focuses contributions of the autistic community, celebrating the visual, verbal, and non-verbal accomplishments of autistic scholars, artists, and others.