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):

Professional staff: 1
Paraprofessional staff:
Graduate students: 0.5
Undergraduates:

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Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs
University 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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