2021 Library Publishing Directory

University of Richmond

Boatwright Memorial Library

Digital Engagement

Crista LaPrade, Digital Asset Management & Preservation Administrator
Phone: 804-289-8412
Email: claprade@richmond.edu

Program Overview

Through the university’s institutional repository, UR Scholarship, we seek to publish original faculty and student research, conference and symposium material, journals, and art exhibition catalogs. We publish and archive undergraduate honors theses and master’s theses.

  • Publishing Activities Began: 2013
  • Location: United States
  • Languages published: English
  • Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
  • Stage Comments:
  • Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
  • Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
  • Peer Reviewed Journals: 5%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 1
  • Paraprofessional staff: 1
  • Undergraduates: 1
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, student; electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

  2020 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty
Conference papers and proceedings, student 35 35
Databases
Datasets
Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules)
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
Journals, campus-based faculty-created 1 1
Journals, campus-based student-created 2
Journals, contracted by external groups
Journals, inactive back-issues
Monographs
Newsletters
Technical/Research Reports
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses 52

2020: New publications from July 2019 to June 2020. 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 offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • business
  • leadership studies
  • professional and continuing studies
  • arts and sciences

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs

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 that provides support for publishing? no

Work with a university press? no

Administer a university press? no

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • concept maps or other visualizations
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
  • Omeka
  • WordPress
Additional Services:
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • cataloging
  • data visualization
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • image services
  • metadata
  • outreach
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon Glacier
  • Amazon S3
  • Preservica
Service Vendors: CrossRef; Digital Commons (bepress); Preservica
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