UMass Chan Medical School

Lamar Soutter Library

Academic Library · United States

• https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/
• escholarship@umassmed.edu

Research and Scholarly Communication Services

https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/

Regina Fisher Raboin, Associate Director
Phone: 508-856-2099
Email: regina.raboin@umassmed.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
In support of UMass Chan Medical School’s mission to advance health and wellness, the Lamar Soutter Library’s eScholarship@UMassChan repository and publishing platforms showcase UMass Chan’s achievements in research, education, and scholarship; increase citation impact and visibility and expand the reach of UMass Chan scholarship; and provide publishing services for open access journals and electronic books edited by UMass Chan faculty, staff, and students in emerging or underserved disciplines.

• Publishing activities began: 2007
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers or proceedings
• Datasets
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Monographs
• Multimedia
• Newsletters
• Posters

Highlights

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: 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 which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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Policies

Copyright and Author Rights: https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/site/policies/

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement: https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/site/policies/#ethics

Author Name Changes After Publication: https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/site/policies/#namechanges

Open Access: https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/site/policies/

Adopted Policies:
Committee on Publication Ethics; Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals; A Guide to Best Practices for Editors of Library and Information Science Journals

Other Information:
We previously used the bepress Digital Commons for all our publishing activities. Beginning in September 2022, we now use DSpace for institutional repository content (https://repository.escholarship.umassmed.edu/) and Janeway for journal publishing (https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/).