Library Publishing Directory

SUNY Geneseo

Milne Library

Academic Library · United States

Milne Library Publishing

https://library.geneseo.edu/publishing

Allison Brown, Digital Publishing Services Manager
Email: browna@geneseo.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
To increase the visibility, reach, and impact of Geneseo’s research and scholarship by providing open access to information, ideas, and works of imagination, and to reduce the cost of higher education in New York State by publishing SUNY-authored open textbooks.
  • Publishing activities began: 2012
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • Publishing Languages: English; Spanish

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: Yes
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1
  • Individual people: 1
  • Students: Undergraduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Grants, Library materials budget, Library operating budget, Sales revenue

Publishing Activities

  • Journals
  • Monographs
  • Open educational resources
  • Posters


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 2
  • Campus-based student-created: 2
Open Educational Resources Publishing:
  • Open Educational Resources: 4
  • Peer-reviewed Open Educational Resources: 4

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Interpersonal Communication: A Mindful Approach to Relationships (textbook)
  • The Missing Link: An Introduction to Web Development and Programming (textbook)
  • Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence (textbook)
  • "Play Like a Girl: An Analysis of Media Representation of Female Athletes" (article in the Proceedings of GREAT Day: Vol. 2015)
  • Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems (textbook)

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Undergraduate students
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  • Program’s 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)
  • Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: Open textbooks/OER by or in collaboration with State University of New York (SUNY) authors or editors
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
  • locally developed software
  • Omeka
  • Pressbooks
  • PubPub
  • WordPress
Additional Services:
  • author advisory - copyright
  • analytics
  • audio/video streaming
  • cataloging
  • contract/license preparation
  • copyediting
  • digitization
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • image services
  • ISBN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • peer review management
  • print-on-demand
  • training
  • typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Digital preservation services under discussion

Policies

  • Web Accessibility Policy: https://www.geneseo.edu/policy/policy-on-web-accessibility
  • Author Rights: https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/about.html
  • Library Statement of Solidarity on Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Anti-Racism: https://library.geneseo.edu/about/idea-inclusivity-diversity-equity-and-anti-racism#s-lg-box-wrapper-34834461
  • Revisions & Suggestions: https://milneopentextbooks.org/revisions-suggestions/

    • Additional Information

    Last Year:
    Our new Editorial Team finalized updated proposal forms, and have published a rubric to accompany them: https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/library-research/19/
    Highlighted Publication

    Differential Calculus: From Practice to Theory

    Differential Calculus: From Practice to Theory covers topics typical to a first course in differential calculus organized around the context of important historical problems, such as the motion of falling bodies and trajectories, the shape of hanging chains, and the Witch of Agnesi. This text thoughtfully guides students from a problem-solving focus based in infinitesimals through the historical development of calculus to develop foundational ideas such as limits and continuity.

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