Vanderbilt University
Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries
Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communications
2019 CONTACT:Andrew Wesolek, Director of Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communications
Phone: 615-343-1075
Email: andrew.j.wesolek@vanderbilt.edu
Program Overview
The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries foster emerging modes of open access publishing by providing scholarly, technical, and financial support for the digital dissemination of locally-produced publications. The Libraries also collaborates with the Graduate School in the publishing of ETD.
Publishing Activities Began: 2004
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1–5): 4 - Growing
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1–5): 4 - Growing
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 2
- Paraprofessional staff:
- Graduate students:
- Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: %
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
- Non-library Campus Budget: %
- Endowment Income: %
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: %
- Sales Revenue: %
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: %
- Other: %
Publishing Activities
All Library Publishing Activities:- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 3
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 1
- Journals Produced for External Groups: 1
- Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 10
- ETDs: 150
- Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses: 340
- Newsletters: 4
Open Access Publishing:
- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 3
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 1
- Journals Produced for External Groups: 1
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
- American Studies
- Homiletics
- Luso-Hispanic Studies
Top Publications:
- AmeriQuests
- Homiletics
- Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies
- Vanderbilt Lives
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsBest publications to refer to our program: Academy of Homiletics
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- data
- images
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- DSpace
- OJS
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- In-house
- LOCKSS
Additional Services:
- author advisory – copyright
- data visualization
- dataset management
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- metadata
- outreach
- training