University of Massachusetts Medical School

Lamar Soutter Library

Research & Scholarly Communication Services

2020 CONTACT:
Regina Fisher Raboin, Associate Director
Phone: 508-856-2099
Email: regina.raboin@umassmed.edu

Program Overview

eScholarship@UMMS is a digital repository and publishing system offering worldwide access to the research, scholarly work, and expertise of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) community. Our goal is to serve as a portfolio for institutional successes by collecting, organizing, disseminating, and showcasing UMMS achievements in research and education by our faculty, researchers, staff, and students. Our publishing services – including open access, peer-reviewed electronic journals, student dissertations and theses, and conference proceedings – highlight the works of University of Massachusetts Medical School authors and others.

Publishing Activities Began: 2007
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):

Professional staff: 1
Paraprofessional staff: 0.4

Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:

Library Operating Budget: 80%
Grants: 20%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; monographs; newsletters; technical/research reports; library annual reports; archival finding aids; datasets; conference proceedings produced for external groups.

	2019	Open Access	Paid	Hybrid
Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal	4	4	0	0
Campus-based Student-driven Journals	1	1	0	0
Databases
ETDs	55	1097	0	0
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings	65	1318	0	0
Journals for External Groups
Monographs		1	0	0
Newsletters	11	89	0	0
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings	19	463	0
Technical/Research Reports	13	139	0	0
Textbooks	1	1	0	0
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses

2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. 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 may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.

Other/Additional Publishing Activities:

Library Publishing Activities: library annual reports; archival finding aids; datasets; conference proceedings produced for external groups

Highlights

Top Publications:

Journal of eScience Librarianship (journal)
ETDs
Psychiatry Information in Brief (journal)
Cancer Concepts: A Guidebook for the Non-Oncologist (guidebook)
The University of Massachusetts Medical School, A History: Integrating Primary Care and Biomedical Research (monograph)

Disciplinary Specialties:

library science
psychiatry / mental health research
cancer
clinical and translational science
life sciences

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students

Openess to 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

Media Formats:

audio
data
images
text
video

Softwares & Platforms:

Digital Commons (bepress)

Additional Services:

DOI distribution
audio/video streaming
author advisory – copyright
author advisory – other
copyediting
dataset management
digitization
DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
hosting of supplemental content
ISSN registry
marketing
metadata
notification of A&I sources
outreach
peer review management
training

Digital Preservation Strategy:

Amazon S3

Service Vendors: bepress; CrossRef; DataCite

Highlighted Publication

Journal of Parent and Family Mental Health

Devoted to the translation and dissemination of research knowledge specific to families living with parental mental illness, this journal is published by the Systems and Psychosocial Advances Research Center (SPARC), Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School in collaboration with the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School through its eScholarship@UMMS publishing and repository system.