SUNY Geneseo
Milne Library
Technical Servicespublishing@geneseo.edu
http://www.geneseo.edu/library/publishing
United States
Primary Contact:
Kate Pitcher
Interim Director
585-245-5591
Program Overview
Develop a viable alternative to current commercial publishing by creating academic friendly publishing services; develop publishing expertise; and create and cultivate such expertise on campus and in other libraries for the development of emerging publishing services in libraries.
Year publishing activities began: 2011
Organization: services are distributed across library units/departments
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (2); paraprofessional staff (1); undergraduate students (1)
Funding sources (%): endowment income (20); grants (75); sales revenue (5)
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 (2); campus-based student-driven journals (1); monographs (18); textbooks (7); student conference papers and proceedings (1); Digital Scholarship projects (2)
Number of open access titles:
Number of paid titles:
Number of hybrid titles:
Media formats: text; images; audio; video; concept maps, modeling, maps, or other visualizations; multimedia/interactive content
Disciplinary specialties:
Top publications: Bob Dylan’s Career as a Blakean Visionary & Romantic; Entrepreneurship in New York: The Mismatch between Venture Capital and Academic R&D; Tagging Along: Memories of My Grandfather James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr.; The Information Literacy User's Guide: An Open, Online Textbook; The Library Publishing Toolkit
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; undergraduate students
External partners:
Publishing platform(s): CONTENTdm; OJS; OMP; Wordpress; locally developed software; OMEKA; Commons-in-a-box
Digital preservation strategy: in-house; digital preservation services under discussion
Additional services: graphic design (print or web); print-on-demand; typesetting; copy-editing; marketing; outreach; analytics; cataloging; metadata ISSN registry; ISBN registry; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; dataset management; peer review management; business model development; contract/license preparation; author copyright advisory; other author advisory; hosting of supplemental content
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Currently lead a successful Open SUNY Textbooks program, which will be completing the second round of grant funding. We are in the process of developing a sustainability plan for ongoing opetarions.View All Entries