Northwestern University
Northwestern University Libraries
Center for Scholarly Communication and Digital Curationcscdc@northwestern.edu
cscdc.northwestern.edu
United States
Primary Contact:
John Dorr
Acting Head, Digital Scholarship Services
847-467-1506
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 2016: NU Press published 1 Journal & 60 monographs
Library publications in 2016: monographs (60); journals (1)
Number of open access titles: journals (); monographs ()
Number of paid titles: journals (); monographs ()
Number of hybrid titles: journals (); monographs ()
Media formats: text; images; audio; video
Disciplinary specialties:
Top publications:
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed:
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: individual faculty
External partners:
Publishing platform(s): Fedora, Hydra; 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