2021 Library Publishing Directory

Vanderbilt University

Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries

Digital Scholarship and Communications

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 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%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 2
  • Paraprofessional staff: 1
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • 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

Top Publications:
  • Ameriquests (journal)
  • Homiletic (journal)

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
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • Fedora
  • Islandora
  • OJS
  • Omeka
  • Scalar
  • WordPress
Additional Services:
  • 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
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3
  • Archivematica
  • Digital preservation services under discussion
  • In-house
  • LOCKSS
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