Wayne State University

Wayne State University Library System

Academic Library · United States

Digital Publishing House

http://publishing.library.wayne.edu

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
Students: Graduate student(s), Undergraduate student(s)
Funding sources: Grants, Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

Conference papers and proceedings
Educational resources
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
Grey literature
Journals
Monographs

Journal Publishing:

Journals published: 3
Campus-based student-created: 3
Peer-reviewed: 1
Currently inactive or archived: 5

Monograph/Book Publishing:

Monographs published: 2
Peer-reviewed: 2

Open Educational Resources Publishing:

Open Educational Resources: 2
Peer-reviewed Open Educational Resources: 2

Highlights

Top Publications:

Clinical Research in Practice (journal)
Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods (journal)
The Woodward Review (journal)

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.
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

Media Formats:

images
text

Software & Platforms:

CONTENTdm
Digital Commons (bepress)
Fedora
locally developed software
Omeka

Additional Services:

author advisory - other
author advisory - copyright
cataloging
contract/license preparation
copyediting
digitization
DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
graphic design (print or web)
hosting of supplemental content
image services
ISBN registry
ISSN registry
marketing
metadata
outreach
print-on-demand
training
typesetting

Digital Preservation Strategy:

Digital preservation services under discussion
In-house

Policies

Adopted Policies:
Committee on Publication Ethics Library Publishing Coalition Directory of Open Access Journals

Additional Information

Last Year:
In 2022, we undertook our first open textbook projects, publishing two of four planned monographs; worked with advising and training student editors on two student-led journal start-ups; and continued to provide opportunities and education to students (graduate student assistants in the School of Information Sciences and interns from other campus departments) interested in library publishing. At the same time, our staff was reduced to one FTE, reducing our overall capacity.

Future Plans:
We plan to resource the unit at 2 FTE in the near future.