Middle Tennessee State University

James E. Walker Library

Academic Library · United States

Digital Scholarship Initiatives

https://dsi.mtsu.edu/publishing

Digital Scholarship Initiatives
Email: digitalscholar@mtsu.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Digital Scholarship Initiatives is an extension of the mission of the Walker Library as an active partner in the scholarly communication process and supports the educational mission of the university through providing access to information. Digital Scholarship is scholarship enhanced by the design of digital projects, incorporation of digital tools, collaboration among digital partners, and dissemination through digital platforms. DSI Core Principles are at: https://dsi.mtsu.edu/coreprinciples

Publishing activities began: 2014
Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
Open access focus: Central to mission
Portion of Open Access publications: All
Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
Advisory/editorial board: No
Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1.5
Individual people: 4
Students: Graduate student(s)
Funding sources: Charge backs/cost sharing, Library operating budget, Sales revenue

Publishing Activities

Conference papers or proceedings
Datasets
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
Expansive digital publications
Grey literature
Journals
Monographs
Multimedia
Newsletters
Open educational resources
Posters

Journal Publishing:

Journals published: 7
Campus-based faculty-created: 4
Campus-based student-created: 3
Peer-reviewed: 5
Currently inactive or archived: 3

Monograph/Book Publishing:

Monographs published: 2
Peer-reviewed: 2

Highlights

Top Publications:

Intercultural Engagement Through Short-Term Faculty-Led Study Abroad: A Practitioner's Guide with Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Public University (book)
Privacy and Safety in Online Learning (book)
International Journal of the Whole Child (journal)
Scientia et Humanitas (journal)
Trials, Triumphs, and Transformations (expansive digital project)

Disciplinary Specialties:

History
Education
Digital humanities
Social sciences

Partners

Internal partners: Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate students
Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
Some units publish newsletter- or monograph-type works on their respective websites. On occasion, consultations may occur. Most have their own objectives and pursue work on their own.
Program’s 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 which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:

audio
data
images
multimedia
text
video
visualizations

Software & Platforms:

CONTENTdm
DSpace
Omeka
Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Open Monograph Press (OMP)
Pressbooks

Additional Services:

assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
Indexing services (e.g.
Compiling indexes and/or tables of contents
author advisory - other
author advisory - copyright
Developmental and/or substantive editing
applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
business model development
cataloging
contract/license preparation
copyediting
digitization
DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
graphic design (print or web)
hosting of supplemental content
ISBN registry
ISSN registry
marketing
metadata
print-on-demand
training
typesetting

Digital Preservation Strategy:

PKP Open Preservation Network
Amazon S3
In-house

Policies

Adopted Policies:
Used the following to draft and/or follow various policies from: LPC Roadmap for Anti-Racist Practice (2021), Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) Joint Statement of Principles, Florida State University Libraries Publishing, and University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing Services.

Additional Information

Last Year:
Over the past two years we implemented MT Open Press, a book publishing program. This is a digital-first, hybrid press that includes external reviews and print-on-demand options.

Future Plans:
We will be creating and implementing new policies including an antiracism policy, inclusive language policy, and correction policy.

Highlighted Publication

Intercultural Engagement Through Short-Term Faculty-Led Study Abroad: A Practitioner’s Guide with Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Public University

The main objective of this edited volume is to offer pedagogically sound and creative ways of integrating elements of intercultural competence into class activities, tasks, and assignments in short-term faculty-led study abroad programs. The intercultural competencies, categorized in the areas of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, included characteristics such as awareness about self and other cultures, creative thinking, problem-solving, empathy, tolerance towards ambiguity, withholding judgment, to name a few. By purposefully embedding these characteristics in their course activities, faculty leaders could better assist their students in deepening intercultural and global competencies. The book will interest a broad readership of multidisciplinary study abroad educators, including faculty leaders, faculty leaders-in-training, faculty scholars, and administrators.