Wake Forest University

Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Academic Library · United States

Yellow Leaf Publishing

https://yellowleafpublishing.org

Kyle Denlinger, Digital Pedagogy and Open Education Librarian
Phone: 336-758-5964
Email: denlinkd@wfu.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Yellow Leaf Publishing aims to expand the possibilities for digital scholarship, digital pedagogy, and open education at Wake Forest University.
  • Publishing activities began: 2022
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
  • 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: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1
  • Individual people: 1
  • Students: Undergraduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers or proceedings
  • Expansive digital publications


Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Domestic Knowledge (expansive digital publication)
  • Gender and Sexuality in World History (expansive digital publication)
  • Decarbonizing Character (expansive digital publication)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • History
  • Environmental studies
  • Leadership and character
  • Women's, gender, and sexuality studies

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Undergraduate students
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
    We have no direct partnership with Wake Forest University Press, which specializes in print monographs of contemporary Irish poetry.
  • 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

Media Formats:
  • images
  • multimedia
  • text
  • visualizations
Software & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • PubPub
  • WordPress

Additional Services:
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • dataset management
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • metadata
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3
  • In-house

Policies


Other Policies:
Our Core Principles of Access, Equity, and Intention are the ideals that underscore our work within our department (Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communication), with colleagues in ZSR Library and the Faculty Commons, and with Wake Forest University faculty, staff, and students. Our hope is that our shared commitment to Access, Equity, and Intention is visible in our work, and we invite our colleagues to engage with us around these Core Principles.

Links to Policies:
https://zsr.wfu.edu/digital-scholarship/core-principles/
Highlighted Publication

Gender & Sexuality in World History

Undergraduate history students at Wake Forest University work together to produce this collection of primary source analyses that explore the historical significance of gender and sexuality.

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