Portland State University

Portland State University Library

Digital Initiatives

2020 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 (1-3): 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
Paraprofessional staff: 4

Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:

Library Operating Budget: 80%
Charitable Contributions: 20%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

	2019	Open Access
Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal	2	2
Campus-based Student-driven Journals	2	2
Databases
ETDs	250	200
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings	3	2
Journals for External Groups
Monographs
Newsletters
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings	2	2
Technical/Research Reports	75
Textbooks	2	2
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses	120	120

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:

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)
PSU McNair Scholars Online Journal (journal)
#BlackLivesMatter: This Generation's Civil Rights Movement (honors theses)

Disciplinary Specialties:

transportation research
world languages
urban studies and planning
education
engineering and computer science

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
concept maps or other visualizations
data
images
text
video

Softwares & Platforms:

Digital Commons (bepress)

Additional Services:

DOI distribution
analytics
audio/video streaming
author advisory – copyright
author advisory – other
budget preparation
cataloging
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
training
typesetting

Digital Preservation Strategy:

Amazon S3

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.

Highlighted Publication

Leyendas y arquetipos del Romanticismo español

Leyendas y arquetipos del Romanticismo español is an introduction to nineteenth-century Spanish literature with a thematic focus on legends and archetypes. It presents Romanticism in the context of nineteenth-century literary and social movements. It is designed as a first anthology for intermediate Spanish students at American universities.