Iowa State University
Iowa State University Library
Digital Scholarship and Initiatives
2019 CONTACT:Harrison W. Inefuku, Scholarly Publishing Services Librarian
Phone: 515-294-3180
Email: hinefuku@iastate.edu
Program Overview
The Digital Scholarship and Initiatives Department supports research, teaching, and learning by facilitating digital scholarship and providing open access to digital materials that embody the scholarly, cultural, and creative activities of Iowa State University.
Publishing Activities Began: 2012
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1–5): 3 - Developmental
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1–5): 3 - Developmental
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 12
- Paraprofessional staff:
- Graduate students:
- Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: %
- Library Operating Budget: %
- Non-library Campus Budget: %
- Endowment Income: %
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: %
- Sales Revenue: %
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: %
- Other: %
Publishing Activities
All Library Publishing Activities:- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 1
- Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 1779
- Student Conference Papers and Proceedings: 14
- Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses: 27
- Newsletters: 1
Open Access Publishing:
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 1
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
- physical sciences and engineering
- agriculture, veterinary medicine, and life sciences
- diversity, inclusion, and social justice
- apparel, merchandising, and design
- communication
Top Publications:
- International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) Annual Conference Proceedings
- Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis
- Proceedings of International Conference on the Epidemiology and Control of Biological, Chemical and Physical Hazards in Pigs and Pork (Safe Pork)
- Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation
- Aperiodic 2018
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsBest publications to refer to our program: Midwest Archives Conference; International Textile and Apparel Association
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- data
- images
- modeling
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- bepress (Digital Commons)
- figshare
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- DPN
Additional Services:
- analytics
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISBN registry
- ISSN registry
- metadata
- peer review management
- training
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:We are exploring options to provide digital scholarship services to campus.
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