Virginia Tech

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Academic Library · United States

Virginia Tech Publishing

https://publishing.vt.edu/

Corinne Guimont, Associate Director, Publishing and Digital Scholarship
Email: gcorinne@vt.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
We are Virginia Tech’s digital-first, open access publisher. Based in the University Libraries, Virginia Tech Publishing (VTP) is committed to increasing the visibility, reach, and impact of research produced at the university. We publish scholarly and educational materials in multiple formats for wide dissemination and permanent preservation. In addition to full-service publishing, we offer a variety of specialized services to support the publishing needs of the Virginia Tech community.

Publishing activities began: 1994
Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
Virginia Tech has been publishing online since 1994. In 2017 we created the Virginia Tech Publishing imprint to better serve the needs of the university.
Open access focus: Central to mission
Portion of Open Access publications: All
Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
Advisory/editorial board: Yes
Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 6
Individual people: 5
Students: Graduate student(s), Undergraduate student(s)
Funding sources: Grants, Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

Databases
Expansive digital publications
Journals
Monographs
Multimedia
Open educational resources (textbooks/course modules)

Journal Publishing:

Journals published: 12
Campus-based faculty-created: 2
Campus-based student-created: 4
Contracted by external groups: 5
Peer-reviewed: 11
Required fee to enable Open Access: 1
Currently inactive or archived: 39

Monograph/Book Publishing:

Monographs published: 3
Peer-reviewed: 2
Required fee to enable Open Access: 0

Open Educational Resources Publishing:

Open Educational Resources: 5
Peer-reviewed Open Educational Resources: 4

Highlights

Top Publications:

Fundamentals of Business (OER)
Introduction to Biosystems Engineering (OER)
Community Policing in Nigeria (book)
Content Operations from Start to Scale (book)
Studies in Engineering Education (journal)

Disciplinary Specialties:

Engineering/technology education
Social sciences
Humanities
Digital humanities

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:

audio
images
multimedia
text
video
visualizations

Software & Platforms:

Omeka
Pressbooks
Scalar
Ubiquity platforms
WordPress

Additional Services:

author advisory - other
author advisory - copyright
Developmental and/or substantive editing
copyediting
DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
graphic design (print or web)
hosting of supplemental content
ISBN registry
ISSN registry
marketing
metadata
outreach
peer review management
print-on-demand
training
typesetting

Digital Preservation Strategy:

Amazon S3
AP Trust
CLOCKSS
In-house
MetaArchive

Policies

Open access policy, Peer review policy, Preservation policy

Highlighted Publication

Introduction to Earth Science

This textbook is adapted from openly-licensed works in geoscience by Laura Neser (Virginia Tech). It is designed for a typical 1000-level university introductory course in the geosciences with numerous features optimized for viewing online.