Washington University in St. Louis

University Libraries

Academic Library · United States

• https://library.wustl.edu/research-support/scholarly-and-digital-publishing/
• digital@wumail.wustl.edu

Scholarly Communications and Digital Publishing Services (ScholPub)

https://library.wustl.edu/research-support/scholarly-and-digital-publishing/

Elizabeth Schwartz, Digital Publishing Manager
Phone: 314-935-5970
Email: e.schwartz@wustl.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Scholarly Communication and Digital Publishing Services develops and supports strategies for promoting the dissemination, accessibility, and impact of your work. Scholarly Communication and Digital Publishing Services also provides information and assistance with open educational practices, funder mandates, APCs, ORCID iDs, and measuring impact.

• Publishing activities began: 2009
• Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: Most
• Publishing Languages: English; open to other languages

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 3
• Individual people: 4
• Students: Graduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Endowment income, Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers or proceedings
• Datasets
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Expansive digital publications
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Monographs
• Open educational resources
• Posters

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
  Data services publishes data sets through their data repository and supports story maps and Omeka S-based digital exhibits. We collaborate with them through offering copyright/licensing support and, when necessary, platform support for Omeka S.
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  Departments and centers will self publish materials. We offer copyright support and support with getting unique identifiers such as ISBNs.
• 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

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Policies

Washington University Intellectual Property Policy: https://wustl.edu/about/compliance-policies/intellectual-property-research-policies/intellectual-property/

Washington University Policy on Open Research and Free Dissemination of Ideas and Information: https://research.wustl.edu/open-research-policy/?_ga=2.174012323.1032380332.1712862114-812038929.1663087345n.com/sites.wustl.edu/dist/e/2576/files/2020/09/Open-Access-5-9-2011.pdf

Internet Privacy Policy: https://wustl.edu/about/compliance-policies/computers-internet-policies/internet-privacy-policy

Additional Information

Last Year:
In 2023, WashU’s Digital Library Publishing Services department was combined with our Scholarly Communications department. The library hired a digital publishing manager, and subsequently the unit became fully staffed. As a reconfigured department, we are placing an emphasis on open educational resources and practices in our publications. In addition to reconfiguring our publishing program’s departmental home, we added a new platform for digital publishing, Domain of One’s Own (https://publish.library.wustl.edu/). Domain of One’s Own is a service through Reclaim Hosting which allows us to offer patrons free to use cPanel accounts on which they can run open source web publishing applications including Omeka, WordPress, and Scalar.

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