Virginia Tech
University Libraries
Center for Digital Research and Scholarshipscholar.lib.vt.edu; ejournals.lib.vt.edu; vtechworks.lib.vt.edu
United States
Primary Contact:
Gail McMillan
Director, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship Services
540-231-9252
Program Overview
The Libraries support the Virginia Tech community’s needs (e.g., conference, journal, and book publishing; rights management and open access consulting, etc.) through digital publishing services. Virginia Tech has been hosting, providing access to, and preserving ejournals since 1989, but we are new to supporting the full workflow from article submission to peer review, editing, and production. We launched OJS in December 2012.
Year publishing activities began: 1989
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: library staff (1.5)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2014:
Library publications in 2014: faculty-driven journals (9); student-driven journals (1); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (6); faculty conference papers and proceedings (1); ETDs (900); yearbooks; annual reports
Number of open access titles:
Number of paid titles:
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Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data; concept maps/modeling maps/visualizations; multimedia/interactive content
Disciplinary specialties: technology education
Top publications: ETDs; Journal of Technology Education (journal); ALAN Review (journal); Journal of Industrial Teacher Education (journal); Journal of Technology Studies (journal)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners: While our ejournal editors largely work on behalf of scholarly societies, we do not work directly with the societies.
Publishing platform(s): DSpace; OJS/OCS/OMP; locally developed software
Digital preservation strategy: LOCKSS; MetaArchive
Additional services: analytics; cataloging; metadata; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; dataset management; contract/license preparation; author copyright advisory; hosting of supplemental content; audio/video streaming
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Consulting with editors about using OJS through CDRS Services; inviting hosted ejournal editors to consider using OJS; launching OCS; and collaborating with our university community to consider other publishing services.View All Entries