Library Publishing Directory
UMass Chan Medical School
Lamar Soutter Library
Academic Library · United StatesResearch 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
Publishing Activities
- Conference papers or proceedings
- Datasets
- Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
- Grey literature
- Journals
- Monographs
- Multimedia
- Newsletters
- Posters
Journal Publishing:
- Journals published: 3
- Campus-based faculty-created: 3
- Peer-reviewed: 3
- Required fee to enable Open Access: 0
- Currently inactive or archived: 3
Highlights
Top Publications:
- Journal of eScience Librarianship (journal)
- Journal of Global Radiology (journal)
- Graphic Medicine Review (journal)
- Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences theses and dissertations (ETDs)
- Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing dissertations (ETDs)
Disciplinary Specialties:
- Library and information science
- Psychiatry/mental health research
- Radiology
- Clinical and translational science
- Biomedical sciences
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
Software & Platforms:
- DSpace
- Janeway
Additional Services:
- assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
- Indexing services (e.g.
- author advisory - other
- author advisory - copyright
- 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
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Amazon S3
- Digital preservation services under discussion
- In-house
Policies
Author rights/copyright policy; Ethics statement; Name change policy; Open access policy- 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/).
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/).
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