Pepperdine University

Pepperdine University Libraries

Digital Projects

2020 CONTACT:
Josias Bartram, Librarian for Digital Publishing, Curation, and Conversion
Phone: 310-506-4711
Email: josias.bartram@pepperdine.edu

Program Overview

The Pepperdine Libraries provide a global gateway to knowledge, serving the diverse and changing needs of our learning community through personalized service at our campus locations and rich, computer-based resources.

Publishing Activities Began: 2010
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):

Professional staff: 1.5
Undergraduates: 0.5

Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:

Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: campus-based faculty-driven journals; campus-based student-driven journals; ETDs; faculty conference papers and proceedings; journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups; newsletters; student conference papers and proceedings; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

	2019	Open Access	Paid	Hybrid
Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal	2	2	0	0
Campus-based Student-driven Journals	6	6	0	0
Databases
ETDs	166	166	0	0
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings	1	1	0	0
Journals for External Groups	1		0	1
Monographs			0
Newsletters	2	2	0	0
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings	1		0
Technical/Research Reports	18	18	0	0
Textbooks
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses	12	12		0

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.

Highlights

Top Publications:

Pepperdine Law Review (journal)
Leaven (journal)
Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal (journal)
The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship and the Law (journal)
Global Tides (journal)

Disciplinary Specialties:

religion
law
business
public policy
education

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
data
images
text
video

Softwares & Platforms:

CONTENTdm
bepress (Digital Commons)

Additional Services:

audio/video streaming
author advisory – other
cataloging
dataset management
digitization
hosting of supplemental content
metadata
peer review management
training

Digital Preservation Strategy:

Amazon S3
Archive-It
DuraCloud
In-house

Highlighted Publication

Seaver College Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Achievement Symposium

The annual Seaver College Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Achievement Symposium, hosted and published by Pepperdine Digital Commons, serves to highlight and celebrate the accomplishments of student scholars and the productive relationships they have developed with their faculty mentors.