Portland State University
Digital Initiatives Unit
Karen Bjork, Head of Digital Initiatives and Scholarly PublishingPhone: 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%
- 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 programsOpenness 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.
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:
Service Vendors: local independent contractors; CrossRef; Scribe - Amazon S3
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:update service's strategic plan
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