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2020 Library Publishing Directory

Wheaton College

Buswell Library

Resource Description and Digital Initiatives

2020 CONTACT:
Steve Oberg, Group Leader for Resource Description and Digital Initiatives
Phone: 630-752-5852
Email: steve.oberg@wheaton.edu

Program Overview

Our aim is to significantly enhance the reach of the college’s own scholarship and lower the barrier for important research in areas of special interest to the college to become available within the scholarly record.

Publishing Activities Began: 2013
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 2 - Early
Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 30%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 0.25
  • Paraprofessional staff: 0.5
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

  2019 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal11
Campus-based Student-driven Journals11
Databases
ETDs5050
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings
Journals for External Groups
Monographs
Newsletters
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings
Technical/Research Reports
Textbooks
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses15

2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. 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 may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • bible and theology
  • psychology
  • spiritual formation
  • study of C.S. Lewis and friends

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students


Openess to Partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • text
Softwares & Platforms:
  • OJS
  • locally developed software

Additional Services:
  • author advisory – copyright
  • cataloging
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • open URL support
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Digital preservation services under discussion

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