University of Richmond

Boatwright Memorial Library

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

Program Overview

The University of Richmond’s Scholarship Repository brings together and provides open access to the intellectual content of its faculty, students, and many centers and programs. The repository includes a broad spectrum of materials and formats, including written scholarship by faculty and students.

UR Scholarship Repository is an open-access compliant institutional repository, with content freely accessible to the world and searchable via Google Scholar and other search engines.

All current and emeritus faculty and staff can deposit their work in this repository into their communities (their home departments) by contacting their respective library. Published and unpublished works of current and emeritus faculty and staff may be uploaded into the repository. Images, video, and audio may be uploaded as well.

UR Scholarship Repository is organized and made accessible by the University Libraries and William Taylor Muse Law Library.

Publishing activities began: 2014
Location: United States
Languages published: English
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 3 - Established
Stage comments:
Open access focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program advisory/editorial board: No
Peer reviewed journals: 50%

Staffing (in full-time equivalents):

Professional staff: 2
Graduate students: 2
Undergraduates: 2

Funding sources for publishing activities:

Library operating budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; datasets; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); expansive digital publications (digital humanities or other complex multimedia projects); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; journals, inactive back-issues; monographs; newsletters; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

Highlights

Disciplinary specialties:

leadership studies
women, gender, and sexuality studies
law

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?

Work with a university press?

Administer a university press?

Technologies & Services

Media formats:

audio
concept maps or other visualizations
data
images
multimedia/interactive content
text
video

Softwares & platforms:

Omeka

Additional services:

analytics
audio/video streaming
author advisory – copyright
author advisory – other
cataloging
data visualization
digitization
DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
metadata
training

Digital preservation strategy:

Preservica

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