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2021 Library Publishing Directory

Northwestern University

Northwestern University Libraries

Research Services

  • https://www.library.northwestern.edu/research/scholarly/digital-publishing.html
  • digitalscholarship@northwestern.edu
Chris Diaz, Digital Publishing Librarian
Phone: 847-467-6693
Email: chris-diaz@northwestern.edu

Program Overview

Northwestern University Libraries provides consultations, assistance, and technologies to members of the Northwestern community and its affiliates for publishing original research and educational materials online. We believe that free access to scholarship is a public good, and we endeavor to meet the evolving needs of authors and readers using open and sustainable practices.

  • Publishing Activities Began: 2012
  • Location: United States
  • Languages published: English
  • Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Stage (1-3): 2 - Early
  • Stage Comments:
  • Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
  • Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 1
  • Undergraduates: 1
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, student; datasets; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses; digital exhibits; digital humanities projects.

  2020 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty
Conference papers and proceedings, student 1 1
Databases
Datasets
Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules) 4 4
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) 1358 1358
Journals, campus-based faculty-created
Journals, campus-based student-created
Journals, contracted by external groups
Journals, inactive back-issues
Monographs
Newsletters
Technical/Research Reports 5 5
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses 35 35
Other/Additional Publishing Activities:
other (1)

2020: New publications from July 2019 to June 2020. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.

OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.

Library-Administered University Press Publications:

For journals, include titles that published at least one article in the last twelve months. For other publication types, report items that were published or added to your repository for the first time within the last twelve months.


  2020
Monographs 85

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time (digital exhibit)
  • Empirical Methods in Political Science (textbook)
  • Undergraduate Research and Arts Expo (conference proceedings)
  • Chemistry of Nature and Culture: Food, Fitness, and Drugs (textbook)
  • Mechanical Behavior of Materials (textbook)

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs

Openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)

Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing? no

Work with a university press? no

Administer a university press? no
  • Relationship between library publishing and university press: Separate Entities

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • data
  • images
  • text
Softwares & Platforms:
  • Fedora
  • Samvera
  • GitHub, Bookdown, Jekyll, Hugo, Pandoc

Additional Services:
  • DOI distribution
  • applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • contract/license preparation
  • dataset management
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • image services
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • peer review management
  • print-on-demand
  • training
  • typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3

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