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2020 Library Publishing Directory

Penn State University

Penn State University Libraries

Research Informatics and Publishing

  • https://openpublishing.psu.edu
  • openpublishing@psu.edu
2020 CONTACT:
Ally Laird, Open Publishing Program Specialist
Phone: 814-867-3702
Email: alaird@psu.edu

Program Overview

The Department of Research Informatics and Publishing enhances the technology-driven teaching and research capacity of the Penn State community. We partner with students, faculty, and staff to consult, provide training, and support projects in the areas of research data management, digital humanities, mapping, statistical analysis, and open publishing. Our services are based on the tenets of openness, innovation and technology, collaboration, and supporting the entire research workflow.

Publishing Activities Began: 2007
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: Yes
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 1
  • Paraprofessional staff: 0.5
  • Undergraduates: 0.25
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: databases; journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; monographs; Bibliographies.

  2019 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal66
Campus-based Student-driven Journals22
Databases11
ETDs
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings
Journals for External Groups 66
Monographs22
Newsletters
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings
Technical/Research Reports
Textbooks
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses

2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. 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 may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.


Other/Additional Publishing Activities:

  • Library Publishing Activities: Bibliographies (6)

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Utopian Literature in English: An Annotated Bibliography From 1516 to the Present (bibliography)
  • Western Pennsylvania History (journal)
  • International Journal of Education and the Arts (journal)
  • The Mentor (journal)
  • New Errands: The Undergraduate Journal of American Studies (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Pennsylvania history

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students


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

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • concept maps or other visualizations
  • data
  • images
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • OJS
  • WordPress
  • locally developed software
  • Drupal

Additional Services:
  • analytics
  • author advisory – copyright
  • cataloging
  • compiling indexes and/or TOCs
  • contract/license preparation
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Digital preservation services under discussion
  • In-house
Service Vendors: DataCite, Google Analytics

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
Continuing to develop our monograph and topical web portal publication services, as well as improving our journal publication services by exploring greater preservation strategies and updating to OJS 3.
Other Information:
Currently, our publications require a connection to Penn State in some way (board, editor, monograph author, etc.), unless there is a strong interest and benefit to the Commonwealth of PA.
Highlighted Publication

The Mentor: Innovative Scholarship on Academic Advising

The Mentor is a peer-reviewed academic advising journal devoted to introducing new and unsettling existing ideas relevant to advising in higher education. Founded in 1999 and originally known as The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal, it was renamed The Mentor: Innovative Scholarship on Academic Advising in 2018 to reflect its rich history of publishing innovative ideas.

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