Wake Forest University
Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Library Partners Press
2019 CONTACT:William Kane, Director, Digital Publishing
Phone: 336-758-6181
Email: kanewp@wfu.edu
Program Overview
Library Partners Press helps faculty, staff, and students create, collect, and convert otherwise unpublished works into digitally distributed books, journals, articles, and the like.
Publishing Activities Began: 2011
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across campus
Stage (1–5): 4 - Growing
Open Access Focus (1–5): 3 - Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: Yes
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across campus
Stage (1–5): 4 - Growing
Open Access Focus (1–5): 3 - Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: Yes
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 1
- Paraprofessional staff:
- Graduate students:
- Undergraduates: 0.25
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: %
- Library Operating Budget: 10%
- Non-library Campus Budget: 80%
- Endowment Income: %
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: %
- Sales Revenue: 10%
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: %
- Other: %
Publishing Activities
All Library Publishing Activities:- Monographs: 30
- Textbooks: 2
- Technical/Research Reports: 2
- Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 3
- Student Conference Papers and Proceedings: 2
- Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses: 4
- Newsletters: 3
Paid Publishing:
- Monographs: 30
Hybrid Publishing:
- Monographs: 15
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
- literary
- creative
- history
- non-fiction
Top Publications:
- Strong Medicine For Winston Salem (monograph)
- Quite Happy (poems)
- What Must Arise (poems)
- Critical Media Studies (series)
- Mysterious Moments (monograph)
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsBest publications to refer to our program: IBPA (Independent Book Publishers Association)
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- data
- images
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- DSpace
- Pressbooks
- WordPress
- locally developed software
- Bibliolabs
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Amazon Glacier
- Amazon S3
- Archive-It
- CLOCKSS
- HathiTrust
- In-house
- MetaArchive
Additional Services:
Service Vendors: Bibliolabs, CreateSpace, IngramSpark, Scribe - DOI distribution
- analytics
- applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- budget preparation
- cataloging
- compiling indexes and/or TOCs
- contract/license preparation
- copyediting
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- image services
- ISBN registry
- marketing
- metadata
- outreach
- print-on-demand
- training
- typesetting