Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Morris Library
OpenSIUChttp://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/
United States
Primary Contact:
Jonathan Nabe
Collection Development LIbrarian and Coordinator, OpenSIUC
618-453-3237
Program Overview
OpenSIUC publishes online open access journals, provides access to theses, dissertations, and other select student content, and serves as one means for the preservation and open access to data sets produced by the faculty of the University.
Year publishing activities began: 2009
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (0.25)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2015:
Library publications in 2015: campus-based faculty-driven journals (1); campus-based student-driven journals (1); technical/research reports (4); ETDs (249); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (7); datasets
Number of open access titles:
Number of paid titles:
Number of hybrid titles:
Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data
Disciplinary specialties: Workforce Education; Communication
Top publications: Online Journal for Workforce Education and Development; Kaleidoscope
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 2
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners:
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons)
Digital preservation strategy: In implementation phase of a Private LOCKSS network
Additional services: training; analytics; cataloging; metadata; dataset management; author copyright advisory; other author advisory; digitization hosting of supplemental content