Indiana University Indianapolis

University Library

Academic Library · United States

Center for Digital Scholarship

https://ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI) University Library Center for Digital Scholarship facilitates open access to knowledge created by IUI researchers, students, and affiliated partners, and advocates for open and equitable practices in creating, disseminating, and evaluating scholarship. Our aim is to remove barriers to global participation in a knowledge commons and build a more diverse, equitable, and sustainable system of scholarly communication.
  • Publishing activities began: 2008
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • 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): 1
  • Individual people: 3
  • Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers or proceedings
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Journals


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 17
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 11
  • Campus-based student-created: 2
  • Contracted by external groups: 4
  • Peer-reviewed: 12
  • Currently inactive or archived: 8

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Advances in Social Work (journal)
  • Chronicles of Health Impact Assessment (journal)
  • ENGAGE! (journal)
  • Metropolitan Universities (journal)
  • Indiana Law Review (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Social work
  • Public health
  • Law
  • Community engaged research
  • Student research

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  • 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): No

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • data
  • images
  • text
Software & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)

Additional Services:
  • assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
  • Indexing services (e.g.
  • author advisory - copyright
  • analytics
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • peer review management
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • PKP Open Preservation Network