Rochester Institute of Technology
RIT Libraries
Metadata and Digital Scholarship Services
2019 CONTACT:Greg Decker, Manager of Metadata and Digital Scholarship Services
Phone: 585-475-4085
Email: gpdtwc@rit.edu
Program Overview
We connect stakeholders’ scholarship efforts with our comprehensive publishing services, ensuring that faculty and student research is made available to readers faster and disseminated in a way that meets their academic objectives.
Publishing Activities Began: 2008
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: %
- Library Operating Budget: %
- Non-library Campus Budget: %
- Endowment Income: %
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: %
- Sales Revenue: %
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: %
- Other: %
Publishing Activities
Open Access Publishing:- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 8
Partners
Internal Partners: individual facultyTechnologies & Services
Media Formats:
- images
- text
Softwares & Platforms:
- bepress (Digital Commons)
Additional Services:
- analytics
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- hosting of supplemental content
- metadata
- outreach
- peer review management
- typesetting