Loyola University Chicago

Loyola Unviersity Chicago Libraries

Library Systems

Margaret Heller, Digital Services Librarian

Program Overview

The University Libraries support a variety of digital services, including helping faculty and students make their work available to a wide audience, hosting journals and conference papers, and creating innovative digital exhibits.

Publishing activities began: 2012
Location: United States
Languages published: English, Spanish
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 3 - Established
Stage comments:
Open access focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program advisory/editorial board: No
Peer reviewed journals: 100%

Staffing (in full-time equivalents):

Professional staff: 1
Graduate students: 0.25

Funding sources for publishing activities:

Library materials budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); expansive digital publications (digital humanities or other complex multimedia projects); journals, campus-based student-created.

Partners

Internal partners: campus departments or programs

Openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners but only if in our disciplinary specialty

Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing?

Work with a university press?

Administer a university press?

Technologies & Services

Media formats:

audio
concept maps or other visualizations
data
images
text
video

Softwares & platforms:

Digital Commons (bepress)
Omeka
WordPress

Additional services:

analytics
author advisory – copyright
contract/license preparation
hosting of supplemental content
metadata
peer review management

Digital preservation strategy:

Preservica

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