Library Publishing Directory
Penn State University
Penn State University Libraries
Academic Library · United StatesResearch Informatics and Publishing
https://openpublishing.psu.edu/Ally Laird, Open Publishing Team Lead
Phone: 814-867-3702
Email: alaird@psu.edu
Program Overview
Mission/Objectives:To provide and support digital platforms and publishing services for the creation and dissemination of high-quality scholarly publications that are free of cost and available to readers everywhere.
- Publishing activities began: 2007
- Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
- Open access focus: Central to mission
- Portion of Open Access publications: All
- Publishing Languages: English, Spanish, French
Program Organization
- Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
- Advisory/editorial board: Yes
- Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 4
- Individual people: 4
- Students: Undergraduate student(s)
- Funding sources: Endowment income, Library materials budget, Library operating budget
Publishing Activities
- Conference papers or proceedings
- Databases
- Datasets
- Journals
- Monographs
- Open educational resources
Journal Publishing:
- Journals published: 17
- Campus-based faculty-created: 10
- Campus-based student-created: 2
- Contracted by external groups: 5
- Peer-reviewed: 13
- Currently inactive or archived: 5
Monograph/Book Publishing:
- Monographs published: 1
- Peer-reviewed: 1
Open Educational Resources Publishing:
- Open Educational Resources: 19
Highlights
Top Publications:
- Stroke Clinician (journal)
- The Pittsburgh Novel: Western Pennsylvania in Fiction and Drama, 1792-2022 (bibliography)
- International Journal of Education and the Arts (journal)
- Engineering Psychology (OER)
- Utopian Literature in English: An Annotated Bibliography From 1516 to the Present (bibliography)
Disciplinary Specialties:
- Pennsylvania History
- Pennsylvania Literary History
Partners
- Internal partners: Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
- Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
We work with the Penn State University Press by hosting and making openly available the back issues of the Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, a journal they publish. - Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
- 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)
- Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: Content with a tie to Penn State or to Pennsylvania.
- Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- data
- images
- text
- video
- visualizations
Software & Platforms:
- locally developed software
- Open Journal Systems (OJS)
- Open Monograph Press (OMP)
- Pressbooks
- WordPress
Additional Services:
- assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
- Indexing services (e.g.
- author advisory - copyright
- analytics
- cataloging
- contract/license preparation
- data visualization
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- ISSN registry
- marketing
- metadata
- outreach
- peer review management
- training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- PKP Open Preservation Network
- Digital preservation services under discussion
- In-house
Policies
Adopted Policies:
Penn State policies; Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE); federal guidelines
Additional Information
Future Plans:Open Publishing plans to expand our journal publishing services, including providing accessibiility training, accessible templates, and more support and training for typesetting and formatting. We will also be working on greater accessibility support across all of our publication platforms.
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