West Virginia University

West Virginia University Libraries

Scholarly Communications & Publishing

Ian Harmon, Scholarly Communications Librarian
Phone: 304-293-0329
Email: ian.harmon@mail.wvu.edu

Program Overview

The WVU Libraries Scholarly Communications & Publishing program is designed to meet the scholarly publishing needs of West Virginia University and the West Virginia scholarly community. We aim to provide open access and non-profit publishing expertise, services, and platforms to enhance the scholarly output options of our community.

Publishing Activities Began: 2017
Location: United States
Languages published: English
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1-3): 2 - Early
Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 80%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):

Professional staff: 1.33
Graduate students: 0.1

Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; databases; datasets; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, inactive back-issues; newsletters; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

	2020	Open Access
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases		2
Datasets
Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules)		1
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)	390
Journals, campus-based faculty-created
Journals, campus-based student-created	2
Journals, contracted by external groups
Journals, inactive back-issues
Monographs
Newsletters	2
Technical/Research Reports		18
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses		3

2020: New publications from July 2019 to June 2020. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.

OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.

Highlights

Top Publications:

An Introduction to Earth Science (open educational resource)
Fixation Database of Film and Animation (database)
Attractive or Aggressive? A Face Recognition and Machine Learning Approach for Estimating Returns to Visual Appearance (working paper)
West Virginia Law Review (journal)
Effect of Well Configurations on Productivity Index of Gas Well Producing from Shale (etd)

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs
Openness to working with external partners: Must have a tie to our institution or align with the University's land grant mission in some way.
Best publications to refer to our program: monographs relevant to West Virginia or Appalachia; digital exhibitions; journals; multimedia databases

Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing? Yes

Name of consortium:
Type of support:

Work with a university press? Yes

University Press Partners: West Virginia University Press

Administer a university press? Yes

Relationship between library publishing and university press: Please describe the relationship between your library publishing program and your university press

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:

audio
data
images
multimedia/interactive content
text
video

Softwares & Platforms:

Digital Commons (bepress)
Omeka

Additional Services:

analytics
audio/video streaming
author advisory – copyright
DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
hosting of supplemental content
metadata
peer review management
training

Digital Preservation Strategy:

Digital preservation services under discussion

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