University of Massachusetts Amherst

Academic Library · United States

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

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:
ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst is a digital repository for the research and scholarly output of members of the University of Massachusetts Amherst community, administered by the UMass Amherst Libraries. ScholarWorks provides UMass Amherst scholars with a means of publishing, disseminating, and preserving their research in a single unified location. These services enhance the professional visibility for faculty and researchers through broader dissemination of their work.

• Publishing activities began: 2006
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: Most
• Publishing Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Irish/Gaelic, Russian, Catalan, French, Kaingang, Chikashshanompa’

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: 2
• Students: Undergraduate student(s)
• 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

Highlights

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 support the creation of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for open access publications that the University of Massachusetts Amherst Press publishes through Manifold. The Press is exploring the possibility of offering authors the option of having their out-of-print titles posted in our repository as open access monographs.
• 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): Yes

Technologies & Services

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