Northwestern University

Northwestern University Libraries

Academic Library · United States

• https://www.library.northwestern.edu/research/scholarly/digital-publishing.html
• digitalpublishing@northwestern.edu

Research Services

https://www.library.northwestern.edu/research/scholarly/digital-publishing.html

Email: digitalpublishing@northwestern.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
We help Northwestern faculty, students, and research staff publish original research online.

• Publishing activities began: 2017
• Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across library units/departments
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 2.5
• Individual people: 4
• Students: Undergraduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Library materials budget; library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Datasets
• Educational resources
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Expansive digital publications
• Journals
• Monographs

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  
• Program’s 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 which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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