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.
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
- Library Operating Budget: 80%
- Grants: 20%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: campus-based faculty-driven journals; campus-based student-driven journals; ETDs; faculty conference papers and proceedings; monographs; newsletters; student conference papers and proceedings; technical/research reports; textbooks; 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
- 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)
- library science
- psychiatry / mental health research
- cancer
- clinical and translational science
- life sciences
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate studentsOpeness 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
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
- bepress (Digital Commons)
- DOI distribution
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- copy-editing
- 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
- Amazon S3