Library Publishing Directory

James Madison University

James Madison University Libraries

Academic Library · United States

Scholarly Communications Strategies

https://www.lib.jmu.edu/publishing/

Yasmeen Shorish, Director of Scholarly Communications Strategies
Email: shorisyl@jmu.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
JMU Libraries provides publishing opportunities and experiences for JMU students and faculty. JMU Libraries supports a portfolio of platforms and publishing services, and seeks partnerships within JMU and beyond to broaden that portfolio in ways that advance research, creative expression, and learning.
  • Publishing activities began: 2012
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
  • 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): 4
  • Individual people: 4
  • Students: Undergraduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers or proceedings
  • Datasets
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Grey literature
  • Journals
  • Monographs
  • Open educational resources
  • Posters


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 7
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 5
  • Campus-based student-created: 2
  • Contracted by external groups: 4
  • Peer-reviewed: 7
  • Currently inactive or archived: 8
Open Educational Resources Publishing:
  • Open Educational Resources: 4

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction (journal)
  • International Journal on Responsibility (journal)
  • The Evolution of Disney Princesses and Their Effect on Body Image, Gender Roles, and the Portrayal of Love (ETD)
  • The Medical Response to the Black Death (ETD)
  • Pulitzer Prize Photograph Brings Awareness-At a Price (ETD)

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
    Publish archived versions of content in institutional repository.
  • 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): Yes

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • images
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
  • Omeka
  • Pressbooks
  • WordPress
Additional Services:
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • peer review management
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Archive-It
  • In-house
  • Preservica

Policies

  • Policies: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/about.html#policies-01
  • Embargo and Publishing Policy: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/about.html#policies-01
  • JMU Scholarly Commons Thesis and Dissertation Preservation Support Policy: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/about.html#policies-01