Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News

Libraries Offers Open Access Publishing through e-Pubs

September 14th, 2011

As a service to the Purdue campus community, the Pur­due University Libraries provide Purdue e-Pubs (www.purdue.edu/epubs), an online repository where researchers can upload and provide online access to papers, presentations, reports, and more. Purdue e-Pubs is already home to a growing body of freely accessible article manuscripts, technical reports, working papers, conference proceedings and students’ scholarship.

As Mark Newton, assistant professor of library science and digital collections librarian, explains, “With scholars and academic institutions worldwide rethinking how to ensure that their published findings achieve maximum impact, Purdue e-Pubs provides the University commu­nity with stable access to published scholarship — such as working papers, journal articles, dissertations and theses — in addition to traditional journal subscription models.”

Purdue e-Pubs is also a full-featured publishing plat­form used by the Purdue University Press to support the publication of original peer-reviewed, scholarly, open access journals. “Depositing scholarly work into an open repository such as e-Pubs exposes the full-text work to academic search engines such as Google Scholar, ensur­ing discoverability and giving scholars instant global access,” Newton says.

Already, 10 original journals are being regularly produced through Purdue e-Pubs with assistance from the Purdue University Press, including the International Journal of Problem-Based Learning (IJPBL), the Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER) and, starting in fall 2011, the inaugural issues of the Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research (JPUR) and the Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering (JATE).

To start using Purdue e-Pubs, contact Newton at epubs@purdue.edu.

Dimensions of Discovery, September 2011 (Issue 1)