Vanderbilt University

Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries

Academic Library · United States

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Digital Scholarship and Communications

https://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/disc/

Shenmeng Xu, Librarian for Scholarly Communications
Email: shenmeng.xu@vanderbilt.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
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
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across library units/departments
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 3
• Individual people: 6
• Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Datasets
• Educational resources
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Multimedia
• Newsletters

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  
• Program’s 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 which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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