Library Publishing Directory

2019

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Library Partners Press helps faculty, staff, and students create, collect, and convert otherwise unpublished works into digitally distributed books, journals, articles, and the like.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):
  • 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 students
External Partners: 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:
  • 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
  • copy-editing
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • image services
  • ISBN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • print-on-demand
  • training
  • typesetting
Service Vendors: Bibliolabs, CreateSpace, IngramSpark, Scribe
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