Northwestern University
Northwestern University Library
Center for Scholarly Communication and Digital Curationcscdc@northwestern.edu
cscdc.northwestern.edu
@NU_CSCDC
United States
Primary Contact:
Claire Stewart
Head, Digital Collections and Scholarly Communication Services
847-467-1437
Program Overview
We are engaged in planning activities to identify tools and support models that enable distributed, preservable publishing projects across the entire University. In initial phases, we anticipate the emphasis will be heavier on non-traditional products, particularly digital humanities projects and companion sites.
Year publishing activities began: 2012
Organization: services are distributed across library units/departments
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (.25)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2015:
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Media formats: text; images
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Internal partners: individual faculty
External partners:
Publishing platform(s): Fedora, Hydra; Scalar; Wordpress
Digital preservation strategy: DuraCloud; HathiTrust; Hydra; in-house, digital presentation services under discussion
Additional services: author copyright advisory; digitization; image services; hosting of supplemental content
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Considering launching an open access journal support service.View All Entries