2021 Library Publishing Directory

Rice University

Fondren Library

Digital Scholarship Services

Program Overview

Rice University’s Digital Scholarship Services (DSS) partners with faculty, students, and staff to advance research, teaching and creative expression in the digital age, offering expertise and access to facilities and tools. We showcase the intellectual vitality of the university by managing the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive; assist in planning and implementing scholarly digital projects; provide training and consulting in the use of digital tools for education and research; provide support for scholarly communications, including consulting on copyright and open access; and help to support using, managing and preserving research data.

  • Location: United States
  • Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Stage (1-3): 2 - Early
  • Stage Comments: ETD program and institutional repository are established but additional publishing activities (e.g., OJS support) are early.
  • Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
  • Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 5
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: datasets; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, inactive back-issues; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

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? no

Work with a university press? no

Administer a university press? no

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • OJS
  • Omeka
Additional Services:
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • cataloging
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon Glacier
  • Amazon S3
  • Archive-It
  • DuraCloud
  • In-house
Service Vendors: DataCite

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
Host more OJS journals Undergraduate journal hosting and training
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