Thomas Jefferson University
Scott Memorial Library
Academic and Instructional Support & ResourcesUnited States
Primary Contact:
Dan Kipnis
Senior Education Services Librarian and Editor of Jefferson Digital Commons
215-503-2825
Program Overview
To provide an open access institutional repository of the work being produced by the Jefferson community to a global audience.
Year publishing activities began: 2006
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: library staff (1.5)
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 2014:
Library publications in 2014: faculty-driven journals (3); student-driven journals (2); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (1); monographs (4); technical/research reports (3); student conference papers and proceedings (20); newsletters (4); ETDs (50); videos; grand round presentations; conference posters
Number of open access titles:
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Media formats: text; images; audio; video
Disciplinary specialties: historical psychiatry; internal medicine; population studies; integrative medicine
Top publications: Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry (journal); The Medicine Forum (journal); On the Anatomy of the Breast (monograph); A Manual of Military Surgery (monograph); Legend and Lore: Jefferson Medical College (monograph)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty
External partners: Special Library Association
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons)
Digital preservation strategy: LOCKSS; in-house
Additional services: marketing; outreach; training; analytics; metadata; ISSN registration; author copyright advisory; digitization; hosting of supplemental content; audio/video streaming
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Continuing to add journals, newsletters, and additional grey literature materials to our institutional repository.We are encouraged by our grass roots effort to get materials in our IR and to continue our publishing efforts. View All Entries