Library Publishing Directory

Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI)

Consortium · United States

PALNI Open Press

https://palni.org/press

Amanda Hurford, Scholarly Communications Director
Phone: 317-747-0507
Email: amanda@palni.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
PALNI Press is committed to disseminating the diverse scholarly, creative, and educational content from PALNI-supported institutions and their academic communities, helping them meet their teaching and learning objectives. This service allows the creation and hosting of open-access publications such as journals, textbooks, monographs, and digital exhibits without the institutional costs associated with program design or platform maintenance and hosting.
  • Publishing activities began: 2017
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: Please select
  • Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Organization (e.g., non-profit association, library consortium) that provides or supports library publishing activities on behalf of its library members
  • Advisory/editorial board: Yes
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1.25
  • Individual people: 2
  • Funding sources: Grants, Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers or proceedings
  • Datasets
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Expansive digital publications
  • Grey literature
  • Journals
  • Monographs
  • Multimedia
  • Newsletters
  • Open educational resources
  • Posters


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 2
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 2
  • Peer-reviewed: 1
  • Currently inactive or archived: 2
Open Educational Resources Publishing:
  • Open Educational Resources: 14
  • Peer-reviewed Open Educational Resources: 5

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology (journal)
  • Brass Techniques and Pedagogy (OER)
  • The Bible and Music (OER)
  • Moodle Faculty Certification Course (OER)
  • AcademFic: A Journal of Fiction by Academics (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Higher education
  • Religion and philosopy
  • Music
  • Mathematics
  • Fiction

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  • Program’s 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 which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • modeling
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
  • visualizations
Software & Platforms:
  • Omeka
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  • Pressbooks
  • Samvera (including Hyku or Hyrax)
Additional Services:
  • assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
  • Indexing services (e.g.
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • analytics
  • cataloging
  • copyediting
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISBN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • peer review management
  • print-on-demand
  • training
  • typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Digital preservation services under discussion

Policies

  • Accessibility: https://press.palni.org/about/policies/
  • Copyright: https://press.palni.org/about/policies/
  • Diversity: https://press.palni.org/about/policies/
  • Privacy: https://press.palni.org/about/policies/

    • Other Policies:
    Eligibility Responsibilities

    Links to Policies:
    https://press.palni.org/about/policies/

    Additional Information

    Last Year:
    DOI provision (joined Crossref and DataCite in 2023).
    Future Plans:
    Website redesign planned; and would like to increase focus on reporting analytics to authors.
    Highlighted Publication

    Writing for Digital Media

    Increasingly, writing is published on digital platforms like social media, websites, and blogs, and this online writing performs a variety of personal, professional, academic, and civic functions. The textbook discusses these functions from a critical and rhetorical perspective and provides practical skills and strategies that students can put into practice in their own digital writing.

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