Library Publishing Directory

Touro University

Touro University Libraries

Academic Library · United States

Touro Scholar

https://touroscholar.touro.edu/opentextbooks/

Sara Tabaei, Library Information Literacy Director and Scholarly Innovations Team Lead
Phone: 212-463-0400 ext. 55233
Email: sara.tabaei@touro.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The objectives of our publishing activities encompass two main initiatives: (1) The Open Touro Initiative aims to support faculty members across the Touro system in adopting, adapting, and authoring open educational resources to enhance their teaching practices. (2) Touro Scholar, Touro's institutional repository, serves as a platform dedicated to advancing open access to scholarly research. It hosts a diverse range of open educational resources created by Touro faculty, in-house student journals, theses and dissertations, institutional newsletters, and other academic materials.
  • Publishing activities began: 2009
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: Some
  • Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1.5
  • Individual people: 2
  • Students: Graduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Grants; Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Journals
  • Newsletters
  • Open educational resources


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 3
  • Campus-based student-created: 3
  • Peer-reviewed: 1
  • Currently inactive or archived: 1
Open Educational Resources Publishing:
  • Open Educational Resources: 4
  • Peer-reviewed Open Educational Resources: 2

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Introduction to Financial Analysis (open educational resource)
  • Optimizing Your Capstone Experience: A Guidebook for Allied Health Professionals (open educational resource)
  • The Science Journal of the Lander College of Arts and Sciences (student journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Health and allied health Sciences
  • Medical
  • Social studies

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate students
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  • Program’s openness to working with external partners: Only work with internal partners
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • images
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
  • Pressbooks
  • WordPress
Additional Services:
  • author advisory - copyright
  • cataloging
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • marketing
  • outreach
  • peer review management
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3

Policies

  • Touro College and University System - Institutional Repository Policies and Procedures: https://touroscholar.touro.edu/policies_procedures.html