Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Chicago Libraries
Library Systemsecommons@luc.edu
ecommons.luc.edu
United States
Primary Contact:
Margaret Heller
Digital Services Librarian
773-508-2686
Program Overview
Loyola eCommons is an open-access, sustainable, and secure resource created to preserve and provide access to research, scholarship, and creative works created by the university community for the benefit of Loyola students, faculty, staff, and the larger academic community. Sponsored by the University Libraries, Loyola eCommons is a suite of online resources, services, and people working in concert to facilitate a wide range of scholarly and archival activities, including collaboration, resource sharing, author rights management, digitization, preservation, and access by a global academic audience.
Year publishing activities began: 2011
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (1); graduate students (.25); undergraduates (1.5)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (90); non-library campus budget (10)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5): (5) Established
Open access focus (1–5): (5) Completely
Advisory/editorial board: N
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2018:
Library publications in 2018: campus-based student-driven journals (1); faculty conference papers and proceedings (165); ETDs (750)
Number of open access titles: journals (1); monographs ()
Number of paid titles: journals (); monographs ()
Number of hybrid titles: journals (); monographs ()
Media formats: text; images; video; data
Disciplinary specialties: criminal justice; economics; social work; chemistry; theology
Top publications: “Web 2.0 for Reference Services Staff Training and Communication” (scholarly article); “The Human Relations Approach and Its Critics” (thesis or dissertation); “Comics and Conflict: War and Patriotically Themed Comics in American Cultural History From World War II Through the Iraq War” (thesis or dissertation); “Education, Fascism, and the Catholic Church in Franco's Spain” (thesis or dissertation); "The Influence of Certain Study Habits on Students Success in Some College Subjects" (thesis or dissertation)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs): 0
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students
External partners:
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons)
Digital preservation strategy: in-house
Additional services: marketing; outreach; training; analytics; author copyright advisory; hosting of supplemental content