Syracuse University
Syracuse University Libraries
Research and ScholarshipUnited States
Primary Contact:
Scott Warren
Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship
315-443-8339
Program Overview
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.
Year publishing activities began: 2010
Organization: services are distributed across library units/departments
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (1.5); paraprofessional staff (.5)
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 2017: monographs (48)
Library publications in 2017: campus-based faculty-driven journals (2); campus-based student-driven journals (3); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (1); monographs (31); technical/research reports (285); faculty conference papers and proceedings (72); student conference papers and proceedings (15); newsletters (20); ETDs (497); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (985)
Number of open access titles:
Number of paid titles:
Number of hybrid titles: journals (2)
Media formats: text; images; audio; video; concept maps, modeling, maps, or other visualizations
Disciplinary specialties: public humanities/publicly engaged scholarship; law and commerce; electrical engineering and computer science; writing and rhetoric; public diplomacy
Top publications: "Internet Adoption and Integration by Network Television News (1997 to 2004)" (dissertation); "An efficient k-means clustering algorithm" (working paper); "Data aggregation techniques in sensor networks: A survey" (article); "Exploiting Data Locality in Dynamic Web Applications" (dissertation); "All the pieces matter: A critical analysis of HBO's 'The Wire'" (dissertation)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners: Imagining America, Association of Public Diplomacy Scholars (APDS) at Syracuse University.
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons); CONTENTdm; OJS; Wordpress; locally developed software; XTF
Digital preservation strategy: AP Trust; DPN; HathiTrust; LOCKSS; Portico; in-house; digital preservation services under discussion
Additional services: graphic design (print or web); typesetting; copy-editing; training; analytics; cataloging; metadata; notification of A&I sources; ISSN registry; ISBN registry; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; open URL support; peer review management; author copyright advisory; other author advisory; digitization; hosting of supplemental content; audio/video streaming
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Forming a new unit that will bring together several units involved in digital scholarship activities, including digital publishing; formalizing a menu of publishing services for the campus community.View All Entries