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2022 Library Publishing Directory

The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries

Joseph Anderson Cook Library

Library Technology

  • https://aquila.usm.edu
  • aquilastaff@usm.edu
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
  • Languages published: English
  • Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 3 - Established
  • Stage comments:
  • Open access focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
  • Program advisory/editorial board: No
  • Peer reviewed journals: 75%
  • Journals that assess article processing charges: 13%
Staffing (in full-time equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 2
Funding sources for publishing activities:
  • Library operating budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: datasets; 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; journals, inactive back-issues; newsletters; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

  2021 Open access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases
Datasets 2 2
Educational resources (e.g., textbooks, course modules) 2 2
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) 204 204
Journals, campus-based faculty-created 4 3 1
Journals, campus-based student-created 2 2
Journals, contracted by external groups 2 2
Journals, inactive back issues
Monographs
Newsletters 3 3
Technical/research reports
Undergraduate capstones/honors theses 111 111

2021: New publications from July 2020 to June 2021. 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 offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.

Highlights

Top publications:
  • Gulf and Caribbean Research (journal)
  • SLIS Connecting (journal)
  • Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange (journal)
  • Online Journal of Health Ethics (journal)
  • Coastlines (student journal)
Disciplinary specialties:
  • library science
  • health/nursing
  • marine biology
  • education
  • archival science

Partners

Internal partners: campus departments or programs

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 that provides support for publishing?

Work with a university press?

Administer a university press?

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
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • metadata
  • peer review management
  • training
Digital preservation strategy:
  • Preservica
Service vendors: Crossref

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
Future plans include an increased emphasis on OER and hopefully adding more support for monographs at some point. We are also hoping to one day add a full-time designer and copyeditor to support new initiatives.
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