Wayne State University
Wayne State University Library System
Digital Publishingscholarscooperative@wayne.edu
scholarscooperative.wayne.edu
United States
Primary Contact:
Joshua Neds-Fox
Coordinator for Digital Publishing
313-577-4460
Program Overview
Wayne State’s Digital Publishing Unit works to make unique, important or institutionally relevant content available to the world at large.
Year publishing activities began: 2010
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (3.5); paraprofessional staff (1)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2017: campus-based faculty-driven journals (1); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (10)
Library publications in 2017: campus-based faculty-driven journals (1); campus-based student-driven journals (1); monographs (1); ETDs (543); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (4)
Number of open access titles: journals (2); monographs (1)
Number of paid titles: journals (11)
Number of hybrid titles: journals (1)
Media formats: text; images
Disciplinary specialties:
Top publications: Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods (journal), Clinical Research in Practice (journal)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners:
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons); Fedora; locally developed software
Digital preservation strategy: in-house
Additional services: graphic design (print or web); typesetting; copyediting; outreach; training; analytics; metadata; ISSN registry; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; contract/license preparation; author copyright advisory; digitization; hosting of supplemental content