Johns Hopkins
Sheridan Libraries
Scholarly Resources and Special Collectionsdissertations@jhu.edu
United States
Primary Contact:
David Reynolds
Manager of Scholarly Digital Initiatives
410-516-7220
Program Overview
To provide a publishing platform for required ETDs and journals for the Johns Hopkins academic community.
Year publishing activities began: 2009
Organization: services are distributed across library units/departments
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: library staff (2.25)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2014:
Library publications in 2014: ETDs (5); undergraduate capstone/honors theses (50)
Number of open access titles:
Number of paid titles:
Number of hybrid titles:
Media formats: text; images
Disciplinary specialties: education; business
Top publications: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Education (journal); New Horizons for Education (journal)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 50
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students
External partners:
Publishing platform(s): DSpace; OJS/OCS/OMP
Digital preservation strategy: in-house; digital preservation services under discussion
Additional services: training; analytics; metadata; peer review management; author copyright advisory
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Publishing journals for the School of Education; looking into providing a monograph publishing service for academic departments; revisiting the question of publishing student journals.We have only done an ETD pilot so far, but mandatory submission was required as of September 1, 2013. We are working with the School of Education to publish two new OA journals. We expect the inaugural issues to appear by the second quarter of 2014. View All Entries