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):
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 studentsUniversity 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:
Service Vendors: Lulu - 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