Oregon State University
Oregon State University Libraries and Press
Center for Digital Scholarship and Servicescdss.library.oregonstate.edu
United States
Primary Contact:
Michael Boock
Head of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services
541-737-9155
Program Overview
Oregon State University Libraries’ publishing activities are primarily focused on the dissemination of scholarship produced by OSU faculty and students. This is achieved largely through the institutional repository ScholarsArchive@ OSU, which includes material such as electronic theses and dissertations, agricultural extension reports, conference proceedings, and faculty data sets. OSU Libraries also hosts open access journals that include articles by OSU faculty. The Libraries’ Center for Digital Scholarship and Services digitizes selected out-of-print OSU Press publications, and provides open access to excerpts from Press books and supplementary materials such as maps and data sets. OSU Libraries also collaborates with OSU Press and OSU Extended Campus to publish open textbooks by OSU faculty. Other publishing activities involve the development of online resources that present the unique holdings of OSU Libraries, such as the Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives, the Linus and Ava Helen Pauling Papers, and related archival collections in the History of Science.
Year publishing activities began: 2006
Organization: services are distributed across library units/departments
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (3); paraprofessional staff (1)
Funding sources (%): library materials budget (80); endowment income (20)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2015:
Library publications in 2015: campus-based faculty-driven journals (4); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (1); technical/research reports (50); faculty conference papers and proceedings (200); ETDs (600); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (35); data sets (25)
Number of open access titles:
Number of paid titles:
Number of hybrid titles:
Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data; multimedia/interactive content
Disciplinary specialties: forestry; agriculture; history of science; water studies
Top publications: Growing Your Own (technical report); Forest Phytophthoras (journal); International Institute for Fisheries Economics and Trade Conference Proceedings (conference proceedings); Journal of the Transportation Research Forum (journal); Reducing Fire Risk on Your Forest Property (technical report)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners: Transportation Research Forum; International Institute for Fisheries Economics and Trade; Western Dry Kiln Association; Oregon Institute for Natural Resources
Publishing platform(s): DSpace; Fedora; Hydra; OJS; Wordpress
Digital preservation strategy: LOCKSS; MetaArchive
Additional services: graphic design (print or web); analytics; cataloging; metadata ISSN registry DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; dataset management author copyright advisory; digitization; image services; data visualization; hosting of supplemental content; audio/video streaming
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Our plans for the near future focus largely on open textbooks, digital humanities, linking data sets to published articles, and completing the retrospective digitization of all OSU theses and dissertations for dissemination through our institutional repository. The OSU Libraries’ Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services is developing a strategic vision for digital publishing with an emphasis on platforms that integrate the publishing activities of the Libraries and Press.View All Entries