Library Publishing Directory

Penn State University

Penn State University Libraries

Academic Library · United States

Research 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 (textbooks/course modules)


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
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 0
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

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

Accessibility policy, Antiracism policy, Author rights/copyright policy, Diversity, equity, and inclusion statement, Ethics statement, Inclusive language policy, Name change policy, Open access policy, Peer review policy, Preservation policy, Privacy/confidentiality policy, Retraction/correction policy

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.
Highlighted Publication

Making Documentary Film: Frederick Wiseman and His Collaborators

Making Documentary Film contains transcriptions of interviews with Frederick Wiseman’s cinematographers and his advocate at WNET-Channel 13 before, during and after filmmaking. This publication builds on Thomas W. Benson and Carolyn Anderson’s extensive research into and criticism of Wiseman’s films and working methods.

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