2022 Library Publishing Directory

Sam Houston State University

Newton Gresham Library

Digital Resources

Email: digitalcollections@shsu.edu

Program Overview

The Newton Gresham Library provides support to five open access journals at Sam Houston State University. We support open access journals with a no-fee hosting service, through our membership in the Texas Digital Library. Using the Open Journal System (OJS), journals are able to take submissions, edit, review, and accept submissions.

  • Publishing activities began: 2016
  • Location: United States
  • Languages published: English
  • Organization: organization (e.g. non-profit association, library consortia) that provides or supports library publishing activities on behalf of its library members
  • Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 2 - Early
  • Stage comments: Journals are hosted by Texas Digital Library which provides technical support.
  • Open access focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
  • Program advisory/editorial board: No
  • Peer reviewed journals: 80%
Staffing (in full-time equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 0.5
Funding sources for publishing activities:
  • Library operating budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups.

  2021 Open access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases
Datasets
Educational resources (e.g., textbooks, course modules)
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
Journals, campus-based faculty-created 2 2
Journals, campus-based student-created 2 2
Journals, contracted by external groups 1 1
Journals, inactive back issues
Monographs
Newsletters
Technical/research reports
Undergraduate capstones/honors theses

2021: New publications from July 2020 to June 2021. 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

Top publications:
  • Journal of Universality of Global Education Issues (journal)
  • Journal of Multidisciplinary Graduate Research (journal)
  • The Measure
Disciplinary specialties:
  • education
  • multidisciplinary
  • literacy
  • teaching
  • case studies

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)

Technologies & Services

Media formats:
  • images
  • text
Softwares & platforms:
  • OJS
Additional services:
  • analytics
  • metadata
  • training
Digital preservation strategy:
  • No digital preservation services provided
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