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 (textbooks/course modules)
Posters

Journal Publishing:

Journals published: 2
Campus-based faculty-created: 2
Peer-reviewed: 1
Required fee to enable Open Access: 0
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

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 policy, Author rights/copyright policy, Diversity, equity, and inclusion statement, Privacy/confidentiality policy, Other (please specify)

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:

Links to 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.