Touro College
Toruo College Libraries
Sara Tabaei, Library Information Literacy DirectorPhone: 212-463-0400; Ext. 55233
Email: touro.scholar@touro.edu
Program Overview
The Touro College OER Initiative is an effort by the Touro College Libraries to support faculty across the Touro system in adopting, adapting, and authoring open educational resources for their teaching. Our institutional repository, Touro Scholar, is a platform to promote open-access to research and host peer-reviewed journals.
- Publishing Activities Began: 2009
- Location: United States
- Languages published: English
- Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
- Stage (1-3): 2 - Early
- Stage Comments: Our OER program is established and recently received grant funding.
- Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
- Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
- Peer Reviewed Journals: 90%
- Professional staff: 3
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, inactive back-issues; newsletters.Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programsOpenness to working with external partners: Only work with internal partners
Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing? no
Work with a university press? no
Administer a university press? no
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- images
- text
Softwares & Platforms:
- Digital Commons (bepress)
- Adobe
Additional Services:
- analytics
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- compiling indexes and/or TOCs
- copyediting
- data visualization
- digitization
- graphic design (print or web)
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISSN registry
- marketing
- metadata
- outreach
- peer review management
- training
- typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
Service Vendors: bepress; Internal Publishing Department - No digital preservation services provided