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2021 Library Publishing Directory

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 Began: 2016
  • Location: United States
  • Languages published: English
  • Organization: services distributed across several campuses
  • Stage (1-3): 2 - Early
  • 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
  • Undergraduates: 2
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Materials 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); 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

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

Top Publications:
  • Global Business & Development Law Journal (journal)
  • University of the Pacific Electronic Theses and Dissertations
  • Backstage Pass (journal)
  • The University of the Pacific Law Review (journal)
  • Open Educational Resources at Pacific
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • music
  • health sciences
  • mathematics
  • sociology
  • 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? no

Work with a university press? no

Administer a university press? no

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • concept maps or other visualizations
  • data
  • images
  • modeling
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • Digital Commons (bepress)

Additional Services:
  • analytics
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • cataloging
  • data visualization
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • peer review management
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3

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