2021 Library Publishing Directory

Touro College

Toruo College Libraries

Sara Tabaei, Library Information Literacy Director
Phone: 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%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • 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 programs

Openness 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:
  • No digital preservation services provided
Service Vendors: bepress; Internal Publishing Department
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