Library Publishing Directory

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 (textbooks/course modules)
  • Posters


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 7
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 4
  • Campus-based student-created: 3
  • Peer-reviewed: 5
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 0
  • Currently inactive or archived: 3
Monograph/Book Publishing:
  • Monographs published: 2
  • Peer-reviewed: 2
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 0

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

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

Antiracism policy, Author rights/copyright policy, Authorship/contributorship policy, Diversity, equity, and inclusion statement, Open access policy, Peer review policy

    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.

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