Library Publishing Directory

2019

University of Massachusetts Amherst

W.E.B. Du Bois Library

Office of Scholarly Communication

2019 CONTACT:
Marilyn S. Billings, Head, Office of Scholarly Communication
Phone: 413-545-6891
Email: mbillings@library.umass.edu

Program Overview

ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst is a repository for the research and scholarly output of members of the University of Massachusetts Amherst community, administered by the UMass Amherst Libraries, enhancing the professional visibility for faculty, researchers, and students.

Publishing Activities Began: 2006
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 70%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 1.5
  • Paraprofessional staff:
  • Graduate students:
  • Undergraduates: 0.5
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Materials Budget: %
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%
  • Non-library Campus Budget: %
  • Endowment Income: %
  • Charitable Contributions: %
  • Grants: %
  • Sales Revenue: %
  • Licensing Revenue: %
  • Charge Backs: %
  • Other: %

Publishing Activities

All Library Publishing Activities:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 3
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 2
  • Monographs: 2
  • Textbooks: 2
  • Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 5
  • Databases: 4
  • ETDs: 972
  • Newsletters: 1
Open Access Publishing:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 9
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 2
  • Monographs: 10

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • hospitality and tourism
  • communication
  • linguistics
  • environmental conservation and sustainability
  • landscape architecture and regional planning
Top Publications:
  • How to Do Case Study Research (Book Chapter)
  • The Impact of Language Barrier & Cultural Differences on Restaurant Experiences: A Grounded Theory Approach (Conference Paper)
  • Theme Park Development Costs: Initial Investment Cost Per First Year Attendee (Conference Paper)
  • Assessment Practices: Student’s and Teacher’s Perceptions of Classroom Assessment (Master's Capstone)
  • The Efforts of Therapists in the First Session to Establish a Therapeutic Alliance (Thesis)

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External Partners: Open Source Geospatial Foundation/Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G); International Association of Hospitality Financial Management Educators (iAHFME); American Council for Medicinally Active Plants; Society for Computation in Linguistics; ACRL New England; Travel & Tourism Research Association
University Press Partners: University of Massachusetts Press

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • images
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • Pressbooks
  • bepress (Digital Commons)
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Digital preservation services under discussion
  • In-house
Additional Services:
  • analytics
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • cataloging
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • image services
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • peer review management
  • print-on-demand
  • training
Service Vendors: DataCite; Lulu; Blackwell

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
We are exploring alternatives to bepress Digital Commons. We are in the process of implementing Amazon S3 web services for preservation of the ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst repository.
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