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2021 Library Publishing Directory

Portland State University

Digital Initiatives Unit

  • https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/
  • pdxscholar@pdx.edu
Karen Bjork, Head of Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Publishing
Phone: 503-725-5889
Email: kbjork@pdx.edu

Program Overview

Portland State University Library supports intellectual freedom and promotes scholarly work through open access publishing. Our open access publishing services align with the University’s mission to “Let Knowledge Serve the City.”

  • Publishing Activities Began: 2010
  • Location: United States
  • Languages published: English
  • Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
  • Stage Comments:
  • 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
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; datasets; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, inactive back-issues; monographs; newsletters; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

  2020 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty 15 15
Conference papers and proceedings, student 28 28
Databases
Datasets 11 11
Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules) 6 6
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) 250 200
Journals, campus-based faculty-created 2 2
Journals, campus-based student-created 2 2
Journals, contracted by external groups
Journals, inactive back-issues
Monographs
Newsletters
Technical/Research Reports 25 25
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses 150 150

2020: New publications from July 2019 to June 2020. 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 offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 1 (open textbook)
  • Communications in Information Literacy (journal)
  • EmpoWord: A Student-Centered Anthology & Handbook for College Writers (open textbook)
  • #BlackLivesMatter: This Generation's Civil Rights Movement (honors thesis)
  • PSU McNair Scholars Online Journal (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • transportation research
  • world languages
  • urban studies and planning
  • social justice
  • civil and environmental engineering

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs

Openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)

Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing? yes
  • Name of consortium: Open Education Network Publishing Cooperative
  • Type of support: The Open Education Network Publishing Cooperative provides community and professional development. The Co-op also develops tools and resources, and shares infrastructure and services to support open textbook publishing.
Work with a university press? no

Administer a university press? no

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
  • Pressbooks

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
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • peer review management
  • print-on-demand
  • training
  • typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3
Service Vendors: local independent contractors; CrossRef; Scribe

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
update service's strategic plan
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