Library Publishing Directory

2019

Northeastern University

Snell Library

Scholarly Communication and Digital Publishing

2019 CONTACT:
Hillary Corbett, Director, Scholarly Communication and Digital Publishing
Phone: 617-373-2352
Email: h.corbett@northeastern.edu

Program Overview

Northeastern University Digital Publishing is a service of the Northeastern University Libraries. We support the production and dissemination of open-access publications in multiple formats.

Publishing Activities Began: 2006
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 0.5
  • Paraprofessional staff:
  • Graduate students:
  • Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Materials Budget: %
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%
  • Non-library Campus Budget: %
  • Endowment Income: %
  • Charitable Contributions: %
  • Grants: %
  • Sales Revenue: %
  • Licensing Revenue: %
  • Charge Backs: %
  • Other: %

Publishing Activities

All Library Publishing Activities:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 1
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 1
  • Technical/Research Reports: 4
  • ETDs: 500
  • Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses: 4
Open Access Publishing:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 2
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 2
  • Monographs: 21

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
Top Publications:
  • NU Writing (journal)
  • Gun Violence in America: The Struggle for Control (monograph)
  • Boston Under Snow: Resilience Lessons for the Nation (report)
  • NASA Valkyrie Humanoid Robot Dataset (data)

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
University Press Partners: Northeastern University Press/University Press of New England

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • Fedora
  • OJS
  • Samvera
  • WordPress
  • Issuu
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Digital preservation services under discussion
  • In-house
Additional Services:
  • analytics
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • cataloging
  • copy-editing
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • image services
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • notification of A&I sources
  • outreach
  • print-on-demand
  • training
Service Vendors: Lulu
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