2021 Library Publishing Directory

Macalester College

DeWitt Wallace Library

Louann Terveer, Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication Librarian
Email: lterveer@macalester.edu

Program Overview

We have three primary goals for our digital publishing efforts:

  1. To provide widely accessible resources for scholarship and teaching.
  2. To contribute to and enhance scholarly communication and open access publishing models.
  3. To preserve Macalester’s intellectual, social, and historical life.

  • Publishing Activities Began: 2004
  • Location: United States
  • Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
  • Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
  • Stage Comments:
  • Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
  • Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
  • Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 1
  • Paraprofessional staff: 0.5
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; monographs; newsletters; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

  2020 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases
Datasets
Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules)
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
Journals, campus-based faculty-created 1
Journals, campus-based student-created 3
Journals, contracted by external groups 1
Journals, inactive back-issues
Monographs 1
Newsletters 4
Technical/Research Reports
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses 62

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

Top Publications:
  • Macalester College Honors Projects (undergraduate capstones/honors theses)
  • HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (journal)
  • Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities (journal)
  • Captive Audiences/Captive Performers (monograph)
  • Library Technology Conference (presentations/slide decks)

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs

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 that provides support for publishing? no

Work with a university press? no

Administer a university press? no

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • concept maps or other visualizations
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • CONTENTdm
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
  • Omeka
  • Pressbooks
  • WordPress
Additional Services:
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • cataloging
  • compiling indexes and/or TOCs
  • copyediting
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISBN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3
  • In-house
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