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2020 Library Publishing Directory

Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Libraries

​Scholarly Communications and Publishing Division

  • http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/
  • libcompass@vcu.edu
2020 CONTACT:
Sam Byrd, Scholarly Publishing Librarian
Phone: 804-827-3556
Email: sbyrd2@vcu.edu

Program Overview

​Scholars Compass is a publishing platform for the intellectual output of VCU’s academic, research, and administrative communities. Its goal is to provide wide and stable access to the exemplary work of VCU’s faculty, researchers, students, and staff.

Publishing Activities Began: 2003
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 1
  • Paraprofessional staff: 0.5
  • Graduate students: 0.5
  • Undergraduates: 0.25
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; databases; electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; monographs; newsletters; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

  2019 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal6
Campus-based Student-driven Journals2
Databases
ETDs4135592
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings31
Journals for External Groups 14
Monographs
Newsletters
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings
Technical/Research Reports61312
Textbooks
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses14516

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.

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • ​Journal of Social Theory in Art Education (journal)
  • ​Journal of Prison Education and Reentry (journal)
  • ​Theses and Dissertations
  • MERC (Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium) Publications
  • Community-Engaged Research Resources
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • art and design
  • medical sciences
  • public health
  • education
  • community engagement

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students


Openess 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)
Best publications to refer to our program: Open Access Journals, Monographs (book-length works or collections) that have resonance with VCU's areas of focus, including arts, health care, urban community engagement, and diversity and inclusion.

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • concept maps or other visualizations
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • Digital Commons (bepress)

Additional Services:
  • DOI distribution
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • contract/license preparation
  • copyediting
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • peer review management
  • training
  • typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon Glacier
  • Amazon S3
  • Digital preservation services under discussion
  • In-house
Service Vendors: DataCite; Longleaf Services; Kaltura

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
We are continuing to expand our publishing services from journal publishing support to include monograph publishing. We are also making a concerted effort to create a community of publishers at VCU, especially those who are involved in open access publishing.
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