Library Publishing Directory

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Academic Library · United States

Scholarly Communication

https://www.library.umass.edu/umass-open-access-journals-conferences/

Erin Jerome, Library Publishing & Institutional Repository Librarian
Phone: 413-545-2174
Email: ewjerome@library.umass.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries provide publishing services for open access journals, conference proceedings, monographs, educational resources, and other openly licensed materials produced by the faculty, staff, and students of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. We publish on platforms open to all researchers, scholars, and readers in order to provide global, equitable, and transparent access to the innovative research and creative works produced by our campus community and affiliates.
  • Publishing activities began: 2006
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
    We are looking to expand and grow our publishing services in the coming years.
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: Most
  • Publishing Languages: English; Spanish; Portuguese; Chinese; Irish/Gaelic; Russian; Catalan; French; Russian; Kaingang; Chikashanompa'

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: 5
  • Students: Undergraduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Library materials budget

Publishing Activities

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


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 9
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 7
  • Campus-based student-created: 2
  • Peer-reviewed: 7
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 1
  • Currently inactive or archived: 8
Monograph/Book Publishing:
  • Monographs published: 3
Open Educational Resources Publishing:
  • Open Educational Resources: 8

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation (journal)
  • UMass Amherst Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
  • Travel and Tourism Research Association (conference proceedings)
  • Economics Department Working Papers (working papers)
  • Journal of Hospitality Financial Management (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Education
  • Communication
  • Language and literature
  • Environmental conservation
  • Travel and tourism

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; Individual faculty; Graduate students; Undergraduate students
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
    We provide DOIs for their open access books, have published supplemental materials to their books in our institutional repository, and jointly supported the publication of a subscription journal. They published the print journal while we published it online.
  • 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)
  • Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: Authors wishing to publish journals and monographs using Janeway. Authors wishing to publish open textbooks using Pressbooks.
  • 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:
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
  • Janeway
  • Pressbooks
Additional Services:
  • assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
  • Indexing services (e.g.
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • analytics
  • audio/video streaming
  • cataloging
  • contract/license preparation
  • dataset management
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Digital preservation services under discussion

Policies

  • Accesibility Statement: https://www.library.umass.edu/justice-equity-diversity-inclusion/#accessibility-statement
  • Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: https://www.library.umass.edu/justice-equity-diversity-inclusion/
  • Open Access Policy: https://www.library.umass.edu/open-access-policy/

    • Other Policies:
    University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries' Mission and Vision; University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries' OneLibrary Statement; University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries' Commitment to Open

    Links to Policies:
    https://www.library.umass.edu/mission-statement-strategic-plan/ https://www.library.umass.edu/commitment-to-open/

    Adopted Policies:
    COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)

    Additional Information

    Last Year:
    We made the decision to migrate our institutional repository and journals from our current platform (Digital Commons) to two open-source platforms, DSpace and Janeway.
    Future Plans:
    After our migrations are complete, we intend to expand and formalize our publishing program and services.