Syracuse University

Syracuse University Libraries

Academic Library · United States

Research and Scholarship



Dylan Mohr, Open Scholarship Librarian
Phone: 315-443-9518
Email: dpmohr@syr.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
To provide Syracuse University (SU) faculty with an alternative to commercial publishing venues and to provide the campus community support for open access publishing models.
  • Publishing activities began: 2010
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Portion of Open Access publications: Most

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 3
  • Individual people: 3
  • Students: Graduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Library materials budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Datasets
  • Educational resources
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Expansive digital publications
  • Grey literature
  • Journals
  • Monographs
  • Multimedia
  • Newsletters
  • Posters


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 5
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 4
  • Campus-based student-created: 1
  • Contracted by external groups: 1
  • Peer-reviewed: 3
  • Currently inactive or archived: 19

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
    The Syracuse University Libraries have a member on the Syracuse University Press advisory board.
  • 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)

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • Digital Commons (bepress)

Additional Services:
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • analytics
  • audio/video streaming
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • peer review management