Middle Tennessee State University

James E. Walker Library

Digital Scholarship Initiatives

• https://dsi.mtsu.edu/publishing
• digitalscholar@mtsu.edu

Program Overview

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. Digital Scholarship is changing the nature of how research is conducted, produced, and shared with the use of digital collection building, digital humanities projects, digital preservation, digital and open access publishing, and the application of digital tools, data visualizations, and other resources.

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 faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, inactive back-issues; monographs; newsletters; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses; working papers; reports (including summary introductions to research or collections); posters; magazines; capstones (other than ETDs and Honors, e.g., Capstone for Masters in Media); digital collections; scholarly and digital humanities websites.

	2021	Open access	Paid	Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases
Datasets
Educational resources (e.g., textbooks, course modules)
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)	131	131
Journals, campus-based faculty-created	3	3
Journals, campus-based student-created	3	3
Journals, contracted by external groups
Journals, inactive back issues
Monographs
Newsletters
Technical/research reports	2	2
Undergraduate capstones/honors theses	37	37

Other publishing activities:
working papers (2); reports (including summary introductions to research or collections) (2); magazines (1)

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2021: New publications from July 2020 to June 2021. 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

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)

Best publications to refer to our program: those where MTSU faculty, students, or staff are involved; regional history or preservation studies

Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing?

Work with a university press?

Administer a university press?

Technologies & Services

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Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
Long-term plans include updating infrastructure to better maintain, preserve, and sustain digital publishing practices, including the goal of adding more open access/education resources and publishing opportunities.

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