Vanderbilt University
Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries
Digital Scholarship and Communications
Andrew Wesolek, Director of Digital Scholarship and CommunicationsPhone: 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 scholarly works produced by Vanderbilt faculty, students, and staff. The Libraries also collaborate with the Graduate School in the publishing of electronic theses and dissertations.
- Publishing Activities Began: 2004
- Location: United States
- Languages published: English
- Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
- Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
- Stage Comments:
- Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
- Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
- Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
- Professional staff: 2
- Paraprofessional staff: 1
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; datasets; electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, inactive back-issues; monographs; newsletters; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.2020 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty | 5 | 5 | ||
Conference papers and proceedings, student | ||||
Databases | ||||
Datasets | ||||
Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules) | ||||
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) | 200 | 200 | ||
Journals, campus-based faculty-created | 4 | 4 | ||
Journals, campus-based student-created | 4 | 4 | ||
Journals, contracted by external groups | ||||
Journals, inactive back-issues | ||||
Monographs | ||||
Newsletters | 4 | 4 | ||
Technical/Research Reports | ||||
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses | 20 | 20 |
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
- Ameriquests (journal)
- Homiletic (journal)
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programsOpenness 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
- audio
- data
- images
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
- DSpace
- Fedora
- Islandora
- OJS
- Omeka
- Scalar
- WordPress
- DOI distribution
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- cataloging
- data visualization
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISSN registry
- metadata
- outreach
- training
- Amazon S3
- Archivematica
- Digital preservation services under discussion
- In-house
- LOCKSS