Library Publishing Directory
UMass Chan Medical School
Lamar Soutter Library
Academic Library · United StatesResearch and Scholarly Communication Services
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: Services distributed across library units/departments
- Advisory/editorial board: No
- Funding sources: Library operating budget
Publishing Activities
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Datasets
- Educational resources
- Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
- Grey literature
- Journals
- Monographs
- Multimedia
- Newsletters
- Posters
Journal Publishing:
- Journals published: 3
- Campus-based faculty-created: 3
- Peer-reviewed: 2
- Currently inactive or archived: 2
Highlights
Top Publications:
- Journal of eScience Librarianship (journal)
- Psychiatry Information in Brief (journal)
- Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences theses and dissertations (ETDs)
- Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing dissertations (ETDs)
- Journal of Global Radiology (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
- Library and information science
- Psychiatry/mental health research
- Radiology
- Clinical and translational science
- Biomedical sciences
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
Media Formats:
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
Software & Platforms:
- DSpace
- Janeway
Additional Services:
- author advisory - other
- author advisory - copyright
- Indexing services (e.g. assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
- DOI distribution
- analytics
- audio/video streaming
- copyediting
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISSN registry
- marketing
- metadata
- outreach
- peer review management
- training
- typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Amazon S3
- Digital preservation services under discussion
- In-house
Policies
Adopted Policies:
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) 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
Additional Information
Last Year:We migrated our publishing platform from bepress Digital Commons and now use DSpace (for institutional repository content) and Janeway (for journal publishing).