2021 Library Publishing Directory

Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago Libraries

Library Systems

Margaret Heller, Digital Services Librarian
Phone: 773-508-2686
Email: mheller1@luc.edu

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, and staff, as well as the larger world.

  • Publishing Activities Began: 2013
  • Location: United States
  • Languages published: English
  • Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
  • Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
  • Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
  • Peer Reviewed Journals: 50%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 0.50
  • Graduate students: 0.25
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Materials Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, student; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based student-created.

  2020 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty
Conference papers and proceedings, student 264
Databases
Datasets
Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules)
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) 928
Journals, campus-based faculty-created
Journals, campus-based student-created 1
Journals, contracted by external groups
Journals, inactive back-issues
Monographs
Newsletters
Technical/Research Reports
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses

2020: New publications from July 2019 to June 2020. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.

OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • environmental sustainability
  • higher education administration
  • bioinformatics

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
  • Omeka
  • WordPress
Additional Services:
  • author advisory – other
  • metadata
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Preservica
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