Sam Houston State University
Newton Gresham Library
Digital Library
Susan Elkins, Digital Resources LibrarianEmail: selkins@shsu.edu
Program Overview
Newton Gresham Library embraces the mission to support and preserve the open access publishing of student work and peer reviewed journals. The Library works with faculty and students to make content available to the widest audience possible at the highest quality. With technical support supplied by the Texas Digital Library, these services are provided to the faculty, staff and students at no charge. Sam Houston State University and the Newton Gresham Library are committed to continual support of open access publishing.
- Publishing Activities Began: 2016
- Location: United States
- Languages published: English
- Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
- Stage (1-3): 2 - Early
- Stage Comments:
- Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
- Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
- Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
- Professional staff: 1
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.| 2020 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference papers and proceedings, faculty | ||||
| Conference papers and proceedings, student | ||||
| Databases | ||||
| Datasets | ||||
| Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules) | ||||
| Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) | 98 | 98 | ||
| Journals, campus-based faculty-created | 5 | 5 | ||
| Journals, campus-based student-created | ||||
| Journals, contracted by external groups | ||||
| Journals, inactive back-issues | ||||
| Monographs | ||||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Technical/Research Reports | ||||
| Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses | 1 | 1 |
2020: New publications from July 2019 to June 2020. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.
OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.
Highlights
- Journal of Universality of Global Education Issues (journal)
- Read: An Online Journal for Literacy Educators (journal)
- Southeast Case Research Journal (journal)
- Journal of Multidisciplinary Graduate Research (journal)
- The Measure: An Undergraduate Research Journal (journal)
- education
- literacy
- multidisciplinary
- case studies
Partners
Internal Partners: individual facultyOpenness 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)
Best publications to refer to our program: Sam Houston State Unversity student and faculty work
Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing? yes
- Name of consortium: Texas Digital Library
- Type of support: Software hosting: Technical support; ETD submission, workflow, and software
Administer a university press? no
Technologies & Services
- images
- text
- DSpace
- OJS
- analytics
- outreach
- peer review management
- training
- Archivematica
- Digital preservation services under discussion