Whatcom Community College

Academic Library · United States

• rmckernan@whatcom.edu

Roe McKernan, OER Librarian
Phone: 360-383-3954
Email: rmckernan@whatcom.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The WCC Library acquires, preserves, and provides access to materials in digital formats that are essential to the research and teaching mission of Whatcom Community College. The Library supports several repository sites to address the varying needs of the members of the WCC community including faculty, staff and student scholarship.

• Publishing activities began: 2014
• Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
  Between early and established.
  
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: Most
• 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
• Students: Undergraduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Library materials budget, Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Grey literature
• Multimedia
• Open educational resources

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Undergraduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g., local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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Policies

Other Information:
We are a small suburban community college library that uses open source technologies to publish and support student and employee scholarship.