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:

Fedora
bepress (Digital Commons)
locally developed software

Digital Preservation Strategy:

In-house

Additional Services:

analytics
author advisory – copyright
author advisory – other
contract/license preparation
copy-editing
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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