Library Publishing Directory

Institution or Organization Name

Library Name

Academic Library · United States

Unit Name

https://www.thriftbooks.com/

Contact Name, Contact Title
Phone: 123-456-7890
Email: contact@email.com

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
We have more than 13 million titles to choose from, from the earliest board books to the all-time classics of literature.
  • Publishing activities began: 1984
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
    stage best describes your library publishing efforts comments
  • 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: Yes
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 10
  • Individual people: 20
  • Students: graduate, undergraduate
  • Funding sources: Charge backs/cost sharing, Charitable contributions, Endowment income

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Databases
  • Datasets
  • Journals
  • Monographs


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 20
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 10
  • Campus-based student-created: 9
  • Contracted by external groups: 8
  • Peer-reviewed: 7
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 6
  • Currently inactive or archived: 5
Monograph/Book Publishing:
  • Monographs published: 4
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 2
  • Open Educational Resources: 1

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Publication 1
  • Publication 2
  • Publication 3
  • Publication 4
  • Publication 5
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Specialty 1
  • Specialty 2
  • Specialty 3
  • Specialty 4
  • Specialty 5

Partners

  • Internal partners:  campus departments or programs, individual faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
    other publishing entities administered by your library comments
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
    other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution comments
  • Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: monographs on history, works wishing to publish using Manifold
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • visualizations
Software & Platforms:
  • CONTENTdm
  • Dataverse
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
Additional Services:
  • analytics
  • applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
  • audio/video streaming
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon Glacier
  • Amazon S3
  • AP Trust
  • Program Policies: Accessibility policy, Antiracism policy, Author rights/copyright policy
  • Links to Policies: https://www.thriftbooks.com/
  • Adopted Policies: other organizations whose policies you have adopted or are using as guidelines

    • Additional Information

    Last Year:
    new directions of your library publishing services in the past year
    Future Plans:
    new directions of your library publishing services in the future
    Other Information:
    anything else you would like us to know about publishing