Ohio State University
University Libraries
Publishing and Repository Serviceshttp://library.osu.edu/projectsinitiatives/knowledge-bank
United States
Primary Contact:
Maureen Walsh
Head, Publishing and Repository Services
614-292-3330
Program Overview
Our mission is to engage with partners across the university to increase the amount, value, and impact of OSU-produced digital content.
Year publishing activities began: 2004
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (2.5); undergraduate students (0.25)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5): 5
Open access focus (1–5): 5
Advisory/editorial board: N
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2018:
Library publications in 2018: campus-based faculty-driven journals (5); campus-based student-driven journals (2) journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (5); monographs (4); technical/research reports (3); faculty conference papers and proceedings (7); newsletters (6); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (428); conference and event lectures and presentations (135); graduate student culminating papers and projects (8); graduate student research forum papers and symposia posters (37); undergraduate research forum presentations and posters (49)
Number of open access titles: journals (12); monographs (4)
Number of paid titles:
Number of hybrid titles:
Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data
Disciplinary specialties:
Top publications:
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs): 0
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners: Society for Disability Studies; Medieval Association of the Midwest; Ohio Academy of Science; National Consortium for Building Healthy Academic Communities; Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics; Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Publishing platform(s): DSpace; OJS; WordPress
Digital preservation strategy: LOCKSS; Inhouse; Digital preservation services under discussion
Additional services: typesetting; training; analytics; cataloging; metadata; compiling indexes and/or TOCs; notification of A&I sources; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; contract/license preparation; author copyright advisory; digitization; hosting of supplemental content; consulting and educational programming; ISSN registry; ISBN registry