Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College Libraries

Academic Library · United States

Maria Aghazarian, Scholarly Communications Librarian
Phone: 610-328-8693
Email: scholarlycommunications@swarthmore.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
To preserve and provide access to scholarship created by the Swarthmore College Community.

• Publishing activities began: 2016
• Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
• Open access focus: One priority among many
• Portion of Open Access publications: Most
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1
• Individual people: 1
• Students: Undergraduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Individual faculty, Undergraduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  
• 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)
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes