Temple University
Temple University Libraries
Library Publishing and Scholarly CommunicationsUnited States
Primary Contact:
Annie Johnson
Library Publishing and Scholarly Communications Specialist
215-204-6511
Program Overview
Temple University Libraries provides free and open access to scholarship produced by Temple University students. Currently, we focus on the publishing of doctoral dissertations, master’s theses, and the winning essays of the Livingstone Undergraduate Research Prize. We also offer the infrastructure and expertise to support the publishing of open access journals. We work closely with Temple University Press on many of our publishing initiatives.
Year publishing activities began: 2008
Organization: services are distributed across library units/departments
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (1); 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:
Library publications in 2017: ETDs (344)
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Number of paid titles:
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Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data
Disciplinary specialties: Full range of academic subjects in ETDs
Top publications: "Profitability Ratio Analysis for Professional Service Firms" (thesis or dissertation); "Gender Inequality in Turkish Education System and the Causes" (thesis or dissertation); "A Pedagogical Guide to Extended Piano Techniques" (thesis or dissertation); "Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto: Its Genesis, Form, and Narrative Structure" (thesis or dissertation); "The Effects of Extensive Reading and Reading Strategies on Reading Self-Efficacy" (thesis or dissertation)
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Internal partners: individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners:
Publishing platform(s): CONTENTdm; OJS; Scalar
Digital preservation strategy: HathiTrust; in-house; digital preservation services under discussion; backup of CONTENTdm instance via OCLC
Additional services: outreach; training; cataloging; metadata; DOI assignment/allocation of; identifiers; author copyright advisory; digitization; hosting of supplemental content
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: We have recently launched an open access undergraduate research journal using OJS, which will publish its first issue in 2017. We hope to support more faculty and student-run open access journals in the future.View All Entries