Creating an Open Access Journal with the University Libraries

by Maria A. Barca

Are you interested in publishing in or creating an Open Access journal? If your answer is “yes!”, but you don’t know where to start, then keep reading. In this blog post, we’ll look at how Seton Hall University Libraries can help you create or publish in an Open Access journal.

Open Access scholarship—including journals—are high-quality, peer-reviewed works that are freely available for people to access. There are no financial, legal, or technical barriers to accessing Open Access content. See this link for more information.

So where would you go to publish or create an Open Access journal? To our repository, of course!

Seton Hall University has an institutional repository: eRepository @ Seton Hall. Through the eRepository, Seton Hall students, faculty, researchers, and other community members can upload their Open Access scholarly research, data and datasets, podcasts, infographics, presentations, etc., for the world to access. You can immediately see the reach that our eRepository has with the interactive map found on the front page of the site.

If the prospect of posting in our eRepository excites you: good! Your librarians are here to help you upload your scholarly works to the repository; and if you have even bigger goals, we can also help you create academic, peer-reviewed Open Access journals to showcase the works of scholars and students on a particular topic or area of expertise. One of our eRepository journals, Locus: The Seton Hall Journal of Undergraduate Research, has been particularly successful.

If you are interested in publishing in the eRepository, creating an Open Access journal, or just have more questions about how we can help you expand your research output, please contact the Research Information Management Librarian, Maria A. Barca (maria.barca@shu.edu) or reach out to the eRepository email (eRepository@shu.edu).

Uniting #SetonHall2020 and Beyond: Personal Narratives of COVID-19

The University Libraries partnered with Professor Angela Kariotis-Kotsonis in CommArts to develop the Personal Narratives of COVID-19 Oral History project this semester.

We continue to seek your stories of what this time has been like for you with the goal of staying connected as a community. Now that we have begun to receive submissions, we’d like to feature some from those in the 2020 graduating class and encourage more to submit their stories! Capture a 1-3 minute reflection of your experience during this time, and your narrative will become part of Seton Hall history.

Submit your narrative to the project.

Together Again: Select Personal Narratives from the Class of 2020

 

Institutional Repository Hits 3 Million Downloads

As of the end of the spring 2019 semester, Seton Hall’s Institutional Repository officially surpassed 3 million downloads. The Repository is an online database comprised of scholarly pieces such as dissertations and theses written by Seton Hall students and faculty. University Libraries implemented this electronic resource in 2011 and partnered with Seton Hall Law, allowing worldwide viewers to access these works, download them, and use them for their research.

In less than 2 years, the online library has gained over one million additional downloads, having reached the 2 million download mark in July, 2017. “We are now averaging 600,000 downloads per year, which has doubled from previous years. The infrastructure we have through BePress allows for betters discoverability and search engine optimization of Seton Hall Scholarship around the world,” states Lisa DeLuca, Co-Manager of the Institutional Repository.

Seton Hall’s academic works have been accessed by over 52,600 institutions in over 232 countries. Some of our most highly recognized views come from organizations, companies, and government agencies such as LexisNexis, Facebook Inc., Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Massachusetts General Hospital, US Dept of Justice, New Jersey Department of Transportation, and State of New Jersey – to name a few. Beyond Seton Hall, top users at other academic institutions have come from NYU, Rutgers University, Columbia University, Harvard University, and UCLA. Since the e-Repository enables digital content to be stored and viewed worldwide, most viewers outside of the US are located in the Philippines, the United Kingdom, India, Canada, and China.

Elizabeth Leonard, the Assistant Dean of Information Technologies and Collection Services believes that, “This current milestone, and the speed at which we achieved it, clearly demonstrated the quality of Seton Hall academics, and the value of our Institutional Repository in providing a platform upon which our scholar’s materials may be found.”

The eRepository contains theses and dissertations, open access research journals, departmental research projects, materials from the Petersheim Exhibition and many digital collections from University Libraries Archives and Special Collections Center. To view Seton Hall’s eRepository and begin your research, visit: https://scholarship.shu.edu/


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Seton Hall University’s Institutional eRepository Hits 2 Million Downloads!

Seton Hall University Libraries & Seton Hall Law proudly maintain Seton Hall University’s Institutional eRepository, for the preservation and dissemination of SHU scholarly works.

We are excited to announce that as of July 7th 2017, there have been more than 2 million downloads from the eRepository from all over the world!

Read the news story here.

You can explore the eRepository here scholarship.shu.edu.

Current Faculty Selected Works Profiles are available here http://scholarship.shu.edu/sw_gallery.html.

For faculty the benefits of having a profile in the eRepository include:

– Showcasing current scholarship with your peers.

– Maintaining your own profile or opting to have #SHU_Libraries maintain it for you.

– Viewing download statistics for your publications and media appearances with map visualizations and Excel tables to view readership by sector, institution, and country.

For more information see our eRepository Brochure.

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