Library Publishing Directory

2019

Wayne State University

Wayne State University Library System

Digital Publishing

2019 CONTACT:
Joshua Neds-Fox, Coordinator for Digital Publishing
Phone: 313 577 4460
Email: dp5745@wayne.edu

Program Overview

Wayne State’s Digital Publishing Unit works to make unique, important or institutionally relevant content available to the world at large.

Publishing Activities Began: 2010
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 4 - Growing
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 4.5
  • Paraprofessional staff: 0.5
  • Graduate students:
  • Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Materials Budget: %
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%
  • Non-library Campus Budget: %
  • Endowment Income: %
  • Charitable Contributions: %
  • Grants: %
  • Sales Revenue: %
  • Licensing Revenue: %
  • Charge Backs: %
  • Other: %

Publishing Activities

All Library Publishing Activities:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 1
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 1
  • Journals Produced for External Groups: 1
  • Monographs: 58
  • ETDs: 326
  • Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses: 23
Open Access Publishing:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 1
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 1
  • Journals Produced for External Groups: 1
  • Monographs: 58

Highlights

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)

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
University Press Partners: Wayne State University Press

Best publications to refer to our program: Delta Nu Alpha Transportation Fraternity, Michigan Counseling Association

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • images
  • text
Softwares & Platforms:
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
  • Fedora
  • locally developed software
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • In-house
Additional Services:
  • analytics
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • contract/license preparation
  • copyediting
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • open URL support
  • training
  • typesetting
Service Vendors: Crossref, bepress

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
Developing Vega, an open multimodal platform for editorial workflow and publishing; establishing a Michigan Digital Publishing collaborative w/ other research universities in the state.
Other Information:
Wayne State Library Publishing supports one of our key strategic pillars in the library, Scholarship.
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