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 (.5)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5): 4
Open access focus (1–5): 5
Advisory/editorial board: N
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2018: campus-based faculty-driven journals (0); campus-based student-driven journals (0); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (0); ETDs (0); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (0); Note: We've re-evaluated the titles we host for the WSU Press and decided that these don't fit the criteria for "published by your library-administered university press," reducing our journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups in these categories to 0.
Library publications in 2018: campus-based faculty-driven journals (1); campus-based student-driven journals (1); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (0); monographs (0); ETDs (292); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (0)
Number of open access titles: journals (2); monographs (0)
Number of paid titles: journals (0); monographs (0)
Number of hybrid titles: journals (0); monographs (0)
Media formats: text; images
Disciplinary specialties:
Top publications: Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods (journal, http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/jmasm), Clinical Research in Practice (journal, http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/crp)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 1
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs): 0
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
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: The Library System anticipates adding new titles to our journals list within the next year, and is preparing to ingest and distribute a slate of open access monographs in partnership with the Wayne State University Press.View All Entries