The University of Southern Mississippi
Cook Library
Library Technology
2020 CONTACT:Josh Cromwell, Scholarly Communications Manager
Phone: 601-266-6200
Email: joshua.cromwell@usm.edu
Program Overview
We provide a platform and other support services to assist the university community with publishing activities in an electronic format, and we encourage that these publications should ideally be Open Access if possible.
Publishing Activities Began: 2012
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 78%
Journals that assess article processing charges: 11%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 78%
Journals that assess article processing charges: 11%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 2
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.| 2019 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Campus-based Student-driven Journals | 2 | 2 | ||
| Databases | ||||
| ETDs | 443 | 443 | ||
| Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
| Journals for External Groups | 2 | 2 | ||
| Monographs | ||||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Student Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
| Technical/Research Reports | ||||
| Textbooks | ||||
| Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses | 74 | 74 |
2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.
OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.
Highlights
Top Publications:
- Gulf and Caribbean Research (journal)
- SLIS Connecting (journal)
- Journal of Sport Safety and Security (journal)
- Online Journal of Health Ethics (journal)
- The Catalyst (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
- library science
- health/nursing
- marine biology
- archival science
- sport and spectator security
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsOpeness to 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
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- Digital Commons (bepress)
Additional Services:
- analytics
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- dataset management
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISSN registry
- metadata
- peer review management
Digital Preservation Strategy:
Service Vendors: Crossref - Preservica
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:Current goal is to identify more campus journals in need of an electronic publishing platform, as well as to increase support for publishing open textbooks/OER. Long-term goal is to be able to provide design and copy-editing support in-house as well.
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