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2021 Library Publishing Directory

Virginia Tech University Libraries

Newman Library

Publishing Services

  • https://publishing.vt.edu
  • publishing@vt.edu
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Peter Potter, Director, Publishing Services
Phone: 540-231-9220
Email: pjp33@vt.edu

Program Overview

VT Publishing is the scholarly publishing hub of Virginia Tech. Based in the University Libraries, we are committed to increasing the visibility, reach, and impact of research produced at Virginia Tech. We publish scholarly and educational materials in multiple formats for wide dissemination and permanent preservation.

  • Publishing Activities Began: 1994
  • Location: United States
  • Languages published: english
  • Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
  • Stage Comments:
  • Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
  • Program Advisory/Editorial Board: Yes
  • Peer Reviewed Journals: 93%
  • Journals that assess article processing charges: 7%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 2
  • Paraprofessional staff: 0.75
  • Undergraduates: 0.5
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Materials Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; databases; datasets; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; journals, inactive back-issues; monographs; newsletters; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

  2020 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases
Datasets 28 28
Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules) 1 1
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) 1414
Journals, campus-based faculty-created 3 3 1
Journals, campus-based student-created 5 5
Journals, contracted by external groups 4 4
Journals, inactive back-issues 32 32
Monographs 4 4
Newsletters
Technical/Research Reports 4 4
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses

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:
  • Proxy War Dynamics in Libya (report)
  • Journal of Veterans Studies (journal)
  • The Foundations of Hip-Hop Encyclopedia (book)
  • Fundamentals of Business - Second Edition (open textbook)
  • Electromagnetics - Volume 2 (open textbook)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • engineering education
  • social sciences
  • humanities
  • public policy and social issues

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)

Best publications to refer to our program: journals; edited volumes; collaborative reports; Omeka projects; conference proceedings

Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing? yes
  • Name of consortium: TOME
  • Type of support: We work with the Towards an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) initiative to make VT authored monographs open access.
Work with a university press? yes
  • University Press Partners: As part of the TOME initiative we have worked with multiple university presses.
Administer a university press? yes

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • concept maps or other visualizations
  • data
  • images
  • modeling
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • OJS
  • Omeka
  • Pressbooks
  • WordPress
  • locally developed software

Additional Services:
  • analytics
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • contract/license preparation
  • data visualization
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • image services
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • peer review management
  • print-on-demand
  • training
  • typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3
  • CLOCKSS
  • Digital preservation services under discussion
  • In-house
Service Vendors: Ubiquity; Pressbooks; LongLeaf
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