Northwestern University
Northwestern University Libraries
Digital Scholarship Services
2019 CONTACT:Chris Diaz, Digital Publishing Librarian
Phone: 847-467-6693
Email: chris-diaz@northwestern.edu
Program Overview
We provide the Northwestern community with digital publishing and preservation services in support of open access, open science, and reproducible research practices.
Publishing Activities Began: 2012
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 2 - Early
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): 2 - Early
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 1
- Paraprofessional staff:
- Graduate students:
- Undergraduates: 0.2
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 Student-driven Journals: 1
- Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 76
- Student Conference Papers and Proceedings: 30
- ETDs: 900
- Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses: 30
Open Access Publishing:
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 1
Library-Administered University Press Publications:
- Monographs: 150
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
Top Publications:
- Computational Research Day (conference proceedings)
- Undergraduate Research and Arts Expo (conference)
- Politica Northwestern (journal)
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual facultyUniversity Press Partners: Northwestern University Press
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- Samvera
- Jekyll, Ghost
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Amazon S3
- Archive-It
- DPN
- HathiTrust
Additional Services:
- DOI distribution
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- contract/license preparation
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- ISSN registry
- outreach
- peer review management
- typesetting
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:We are currently exploring monograph and textbook publication services using open source static website generators.
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