West Virginia University
West Virginia University Libraries
Scholarly Communications & Publishing
Ian Harmon, Scholarly Communications LibrarianPhone: 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
- Stage Comments:
- Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
- Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
- Peer Reviewed Journals: 80%
- Professional staff: 1.33
- Graduate students: 0.1
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 | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- 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 programsOpenness 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? no
Work with a university press? yes
- University Press Partners: West Virginia University Press
Technologies & Services
- audio
- data
- images
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
- Digital Commons (bepress)
- Omeka
- analytics
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- hosting of supplemental content
- metadata
- peer review management
- training
- Digital preservation services under discussion