Library Publishing Directory

2019

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):
  • 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 students

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • bepress (Digital Commons)
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3
Additional Services:
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • budget preparation
  • cataloging
  • contract/license preparation
  • copy-editing
  • 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
Service Vendors: Scribe

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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