Purdue University Libraries

Purdue University Libraries and School of Information

Academic Library · United States

Library Publishing Unit

Nina Collins, Scholarly Publishing Specialist
Email: nkcollin@purdue.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
To enhance the impact of Purdue scholarship by delivering high-value open information products aligned with the University’s strengths; to continue to explore new models and new partnerships; to advocate for open access, and to advance the creation, communication, and discovery of new knowledge.

• Publishing activities began: 2006
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: Most
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across library units/departments
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1.75
• Individual people: 3
• Students: Graduate student(s)

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Databases
• Datasets
• Educational resources
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Monographs
• Posters

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
  Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) publishes data sets. We collaborate on publishing projects that have associated published data sets.
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  Our publishing units do not interact with the Graduate School Thesis Office. Libraries harvests metadata from their repository to make it discoverable in the library catalog.
• 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): No

Technologies & Services

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