Vanderbilt University
Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries
Digital Scholarship and Communications
2020 CONTACT:Andrew Wesolek, Director of Digital Scholarship and 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.
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
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: 1
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; newsletters; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.| 2019 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal | 4 | 4 | ||
| Campus-based Student-driven Journals | 4 | 4 | ||
| Databases | ||||
| ETDs | 150 | |||
| Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings | 10 | |||
| Journals for External Groups | ||||
| Monographs | ||||
| Newsletters | 4 | |||
| Student Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
| Technical/Research Reports | ||||
| Textbooks | ||||
| Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses | 100 |
2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. 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 may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsOpeness to Partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
Technologies & Services
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
- DSpace
- Islandora
- OJS
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- data visualization
- dataset management
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- metadata
- outreach
- training
- In-house
- LOCKSS