Wayne State University

Wayne State University Library System

Academic Library · United States

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 (textbooks/course modules)

Journal Publishing:

Journals published: 3
Campus-based student-created: 3
Peer-reviewed: 1
Required fee to enable Open Access:
Currently inactive or archived: 8

Highlights

Top Publications:

Clinical Research in Practice (journal)
Rushton Journal of Undergraduate Humanities Research (journal)
The Woodward Review (journal)
Mathematics for Biomedical Physics (open textbook)
Urban Health: A Practical Application for Clinical Based Learning (open textbook)

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:

data
images
text

Software & Platforms:

CONTENTdm
Digital Commons (bepress)
Omeka

Additional Services:

author advisory - other
author advisory - copyright
cataloging
contract/license preparation
copyediting
dataset management
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