Library Publishing Directory

University of Colorado Boulder

University Libraries

Academic Library · United States

Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship

https://www.colorado.edu/crdds/

Melissa H. Cantrell, Scholarly Communication Librarian
Email: melissa.cantrell@colorado.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
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
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 2
  • Individual people: 3
  • Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

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


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 6
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 3
  • Campus-based student-created: 3
  • Peer-reviewed: 5
  • Required fee to enable Open Access:
  • Currently inactive or archived: 3

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Living Journal of Computational Molecular Science (journal)
  • Colorado Research in Linguistics (journal)
  • Journal of New Librarianship (journal)
  • PARtake (journal)
  • Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Engineering
  • Physics
  • Chemistry and biochemistry
  • Environmental sciences
  • Ecology and evolutionary biology

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  • Samvera (including Hyku or Hyrax)
Additional Services:
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • data visualization
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • metadata
  • peer review management
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3
  • Digital preservation services under discussion