West Virginia University
West Virginia University Libraries
Digital Publishing Institute
2019 CONTACT:Ian Harmon, Scholarly Communications Librarian
Phone: 304-293-0329
Email: ian.harmon@mail.wvu.edu
Program Overview
The Digital Publishing Institute is a nascent collaborative that offers consulting services, OA and non-profit publishing expertise, services, and platforms as well as workshops and student internships. Our mission is to help meet the publishing needs of the WVU and WV scholarly community.
Publishing Activities Began: 2017
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1–5): 1 - Pilot
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1–5): 1 - Pilot
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 1
- Paraprofessional staff:
- Graduate students: 0.5
- Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: %
- Library Operating Budget: %
- Non-library Campus Budget: %
- Endowment Income: %
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: %
- Sales Revenue: %
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: %
- Other: %
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programsUniversity Press Partners: West Virginia University Press
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- bepress (Digital Commons)
- Omeka
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Digital preservation services under discussion
Additional Services:
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- metadata
- outreach
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:We hope to build on our experience publishing Open Textbooks and to begin offering Research Data Management services, including the publication of datasets. We are also interested in hosting journals.
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