Wayne State University

Wayne State University Library System

Academic Library · United States

• https://guides.lib.wayne.edu/publishing/
• lib.publishing@wayne.edu

Digital Publishing House

https://guides.lib.wayne.edu/publishing/

Joshua Neds-Fox, Coordinator for Digital Publishing
Phone: 313-577-4460
Email: dp5745@wayne.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Digital Publishing in the Library System exists to foster the development, production, and preservation of scholarly communication through open access (OA) publication. Our goal is to make research and creative activities as freely available as possible, paying as much attention to our local needs as our global ones, and operating with a sense of equity and social justice.

• Publishing activities began: 2010
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1
• Individual people: 1
• Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

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

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  We host journals and provide training and support for staff and editors at the Wayne State University Press, and work with Publishing Practicum courses in University programs to consult and produce library-hosted student journals.
• 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)
• Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: Start-up open access journals or faculty-led journals transitioning to open access; Open educational resources and open textbooks; Digital humanities projects; Wayne State-affiliated publishing projects that don’t fit in traditional scholarly workflows
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

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