Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) University Library
IUPUI University Library Center for Digital Scholarshipdigschol@iupui.edu
http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship
https://twitter.com/IUPUIDigSchol
United States
Primary Contact:
Ted Polley
Social Sciences & Digital Publishing Librarian
317-274-8552
Program Overview
The IUPUI University Library Center for Digital Scholarship enriches the research capabilities of scholars at IUPUI, within Indiana communities, and beyond by: digitally disseminating unique scholarship, data, and artifacts created by IUPUI faculty, students, staff, and community partners; advocating for the rights of authors, fair use, and open access to information and publications; implementing and promoting best practices for creation, description, preservation, sharing, and reuse of digital scholarship, data, and artifacts; strategically applying research-supporting technologies; teaching digital literacy.
Year publishing activities began: 2007
Organization: services are distributed across library units/departments
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (2-3); paraprofessional staff (3-4)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (90); grants (10)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2017:
Library publications in 2017: campus-based faculty-driven journals (3); campus-based student-driven journals (4); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (4); ETDs (75)
Number of open access titles: journals (9)
Number of paid titles:
Number of hybrid titles: journals (2)
Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data
Disciplinary specialties: Indianapolis history; social work; law; science; civics
Top publications: Indianapolis City Directories; Advances in Social Work (journal); Indiana Law Review (journal); Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science (journal); Journal of Civic Literacy (journal)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 90
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students
External partners: Indiana Library Federation, Indiana Teachers of English Speakers of Other Languages, Indiana Academy of Science, Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities
Publishing platform(s): CONTENTdm; DSpace; OJS
Digital preservation strategy: DuraCloud; DPN; PKP Private LOCKSS Network
Additional services: training; analytics; cataloging; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; open URL support; dataset management; author copyright advisory; digitization; ISSN registry
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: At present we support the technologies that allow for open access publishing (Dspace, OJS) as well as training on these technologies and some general limited support regarding how to start a new journal. We have discussed fuller support of the editorial/publishing process through provision of copy editing and journal/issue formatting support.View All Entries