University of Colorado Boulder
University Libraries
Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship
Thea Lindquist, Executive DirectorPhone: 303-492-3996
Email: thea.lindquist@colorado.edu
Program Overview
We host open access journals on hosted Open Journal Systems software. We host ETDs, undergraduate honors theses, technical reports, newsletters, datasets, and other content created by the University of Colorado Boulder community in our open access institutional repository, CU Scholar.
- Publishing activities began: 2014
- Location: United States
- Languages published: English; Spanish
- Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
- Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 3 - Established
- Stage comments:
- Open access focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
- Program advisory/editorial board: No
- Peer reviewed journals: 100%
- Professional staff: 2
- Library operating budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; datasets; electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.| 2021 | Open access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference papers and proceedings, faculty | 9 | 9 | ||
| Conference papers and proceedings, student | ||||
| Databases | ||||
| Datasets | 320 | 320 | ||
| Educational resources (e.g., textbooks, course modules) | ||||
| Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) | 893 | 893 | ||
| Journals, campus-based faculty-created | 3 | 3 | ||
| Journals, campus-based student-created | ||||
| Journals, contracted by external groups | ||||
| Journals, inactive back issues | ||||
| Monographs | ||||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Technical/research reports | 70 | 70 | ||
| Undergraduate capstones/honors theses | 513 | 513 |
2021: New publications from July 2020 to June 2021. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.
OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.
Highlights
- Caitlin Elizabeth Ring, “Hate Speech in Social Media: An Exploration of the Problem and Its Proposed Solutions” (graduate ETD)
- Erin Krahn, “Decomposing the Effect of Color on Memory: How Red and Blue Affect Memory Differently” (honors thesis)
- Lauren M. Troksa, “The Study of Generations: A Timeless Notion within a Contemporary Context” (honors thesis)
- Robert Mehls, “In History No One Can Hear You Scream: Feminism and the Horror Film 1974-1996” (graduate ETD)
- Marley Jeranko, “Negotiating Masculinity in J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye” (honors thesis)
- engineering
- physics
- chemistry and biochemistry
- environmental sciences
- ecology and evolutionary biology
Partners
Internal partners: campus departments or programsOpenness 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)
Technologies & Services
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
- OJS
- Samvera
- DOI distribution
- analytics
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- data visualization
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- hosting of supplemental content
- metadata
- peer review management
- training
- Amazon S3
- Digital preservation services under discussion