Portland State University
Portland State University Library
Digital Initiatives
2019 CONTACT:Karen Bjork, Head of Digital Initiatives
Phone: 503-725-5889
Email: kbjork@pdx.edu
Program Overview
Portland State University Library offers PDXScholar as a publishing platform for faculty and student scholarship. Our goal is to provide support for the broadest possible dissemination of campus research and creative work.
Publishing Activities Began: 2010
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 4 - Growing
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 4 - Growing
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 1
- Paraprofessional staff: 4
- Graduate students:
- Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: %
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
- Non-library Campus Budget: %
- Endowment Income: %
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: %
- Sales Revenue: %
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: %
- Other: %
Publishing Activities
All Library Publishing Activities:- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 2
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 2
- Textbooks: 3
- Technical/Research Reports: 75
- Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 3
- Student Conference Papers and Proceedings: 2
- ETDs: 250
- Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses: 115
Open Access Publishing:
- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 2
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 3
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
- Urban Studies and Planning
- Education
- Transportation Research
- Engineering and Computer Science
- World Languages
Top Publications:
- Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 1 (open textbook)
- Communications in Information Literacy (journal)
- Social Media and Self: Influences on the Formation of Identity and Understanding of Self through Social Networking Sites (honors theses)
- McNair Scholars Journal (journal)
- Social Control Theory and Delinquency (dissertation)
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsTechnologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- Digital Commons (bepress)
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Amazon S3
Additional Services:
Service Vendors: Scribe - DOI distribution
- analytics
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- budget preparation
- cataloging
- contract/license preparation
- copyediting
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISSN registry
- marketing
- metadata
- open URL support
- outreach
- peer review management
- print-on-demand
- training
- typesetting
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:Strengthen existing library publishing partnerships and expand our publishing of original research and scholarship, with a particular focus on textbook publishing and research data.
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