Penn State University
Penn State University Libraries
Research Informatics and Publishing
Ally Laird, Open Publishing Program CoordinatorPhone: 814-867-3702
Email: alaird@psu.edu
Program Overview
To provide publishing support and hosting services to Penn State affiliated researchers and students and to support content of particular importance to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by making all content accessible and available Open Access.
- Publishing activities began: 2007
- Location: United States
- Languages published: English
- Organization: services distributed across several campuses
- Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 3 - Established
- Stage comments: While the Penn State Libraries Open Publishing Program is well established within our library and the Penn State community and beyond, our program works to continually improve our services and seek growth every year.
- Open access focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
- Program advisory/editorial board: Yes
- Peer reviewed journals: 85%
- Professional staff: 3
- Paraprofessional staff: 0.45
- Graduate students: 0.15
- Undergraduates: 0.25
Funding sources for publishing activities:
- Library operating budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; expansive digital publications (digital humanities or other complex multimedia projects); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; journals, inactive back-issues; monographs; scholarly bibliographies.| 2021 | Open access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference papers and proceedings, faculty | 0 | |||
| Conference papers and proceedings, student | ||||
| Databases | ||||
| Datasets | ||||
| Educational resources (e.g., textbooks, course modules) | ||||
| Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) | ||||
| Journals, campus-based faculty-created | 6 | 6 | ||
| Journals, campus-based student-created | 2 | 2 | ||
| Journals, contracted by external groups | 5 | 2 | 3 | |
| Journals, inactive back issues | 2 | 2 | ||
| Monographs | 0 | |||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Technical/research reports | ||||
| Undergraduate capstones/honors theses |
scholarly bibliographies (4)
2021: New publications from July 2020 to June 2021. 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 offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.
Highlights
Top publications:
- Utopian Literature in English: An Annotated Bibliography From 1516 to the Present (bibliography)
- Penn State Journal of Medicine (journal)
- Western Pennsylvania History (journal)
- CIKARD (Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Rural Development) (Bibliography)
- Global Building Network (Bibliography)
Disciplinary specialties:
- Pennsylvania History
Partners
Internal partners: campus departments or programsOpenness 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)
Best publications to refer to our program: Content with a tie to Penn State or to Pennsylvania.
Technologies & Services
Media formats:
- audio
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- text
- video
Softwares & platforms:
- OJS
- Pressbooks
- WordPress
- locally developed software
- Drupal
Additional services:
- analytics
- author advisory – copyright
- cataloging
- contract/license preparation
- copyediting
- data visualization
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISSN registry
- marketing
- metadata
- outreach
- peer review management
- training
Digital preservation strategy:
Service vendors: DataCite; Matomo - Digital preservation services under discussion
- In-house
Additional Information
Plans for expansion & future directions:The Library has recently become the product owner of Penn State's OER repository. Once this transition has taken place, the Open Publishing Program will begin providing OER hosting services, both with the repository and also for providing centralized OER publishing services.
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