University of the Pacific

William Knox Holt Memorial Library and Learning Center

Digital Initiatives

• https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/
• scholarlycommons@pacific.edu
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Michele Gibney, Head of Publishing and Scholarship Support
Phone: 209-932-2823
Email: mgibney@pacific.edu

Program Overview

Scholarly Commons is publishing original knowledge in the form of several journals, conferences, and open educational resources (OER). Contributions to this repository showcase the intellectual and creative output of University of the Pacific faculty, students, alumni, and staff, ensuring long-term preservation and worldwide electronic accessibility.

Benefits

• Supports University of the Pacific’s ‘Pacific 2020’ vision to “build the strength, relevance, and reputation of Pacific’s academic programs”
• Provides online open access to University of the Pacific’s intellectual output from a centralized system
• Publishing research in Scholarly Commons fulfills the requirement mandated by many funding agencies that researchers provide open access archiving for sponsored research
• Increase the global visibility of University of the Pacific scholarly output on Google, Google Scholar and other search engines
• Provides 24/7 online access to University of the Pacific research, scholarship and creative works to local and global communities
• Provides a workspace for collaborative projects and development and sharing of teaching materials

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); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; journals, inactive back-issues; newsletters; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

	2020	Open Access	Paid	Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty	20
Conference papers and proceedings, student	10
Databases
Datasets	1	1
Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules)	5	5
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)	75	70		5
Journals, campus-based faculty-created	2	2
Journals, campus-based student-created	50	50
Journals, contracted by external groups	0	0
Journals, inactive back-issues	50	50
Monographs
Newsletters	10	10
Technical/Research Reports	0	0
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses	0	0

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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

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

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