Library Publishing Directory

2019

IUPUI

University Library

Center for Digital Scholarship

2019 CONTACT:
Ted Polley, Social Sciences & Digital Publishing Librarian
Phone: 317-274-8552
Email: dapolley@iupui.edu

Program Overview

The Center for Digital Scholarship assists IUPUI faculty, staff, students, and affiliated groups in publishing open access scholarly journals. We work with partners launching new journals, or assisting existing journals transitioning from a subscription model to an open access model.

Publishing Activities Began: 2008
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 80%
Journals that assess article processing charges: 5%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 2
  • Paraprofessional staff:
  • Graduate students:
  • Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Materials Budget: %
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%
  • Non-library Campus Budget: %
  • Endowment Income: %
  • Charitable Contributions: %
  • Grants: %
  • Sales Revenue: %
  • Licensing Revenue: %
  • Charge Backs: %
  • Other: %

Publishing Activities

All Library Publishing Activities:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 7
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 1
  • Journals Produced for External Groups: 4
  • ETDs: 225
Open Access Publishing:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 6
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 1
  • Journals Produced for External Groups: 3
Hybrid Publishing:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 1
  • Journals Produced for External Groups: 1

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • social work
  • health impact assessement
  • law
  • metropolitan/urban universities
  • Islamic faith and practice
Top Publications:
  • Advances in Social Work (journal)
  • Chronicles of Health Impact Assessment (journal)
  • Indiana Law Review (journal)
  • Metropolitan Universities (journal)
  • Journal of Teaching Writing (journal)

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students


Best publications to refer to our program: Indiana Teachers of English as a Second Language; Sport Law & Recreation Association; Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities; Islamic Seminary Foundation; Indiana Academy of Science

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • images
  • text
Softwares & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • OJS
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • DPN
  • PKP Preservation Network
Additional Services:
  • analytics
  • author advisory – copyright
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • training

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
We hope to begin connecting our journals with external services like layout and copy-editing. We are also currently working on our first open monograph.
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