1. Functioning in the Grey
Kennesaw State University’s Library
Journal Publishing Projects
Aajay Murphy | IFLA 2016 Satellite Meeting | Ann Arbor | August 12th

2. Why?

3. The Digital Commons @ Kennesaw State University
Founded in 2009
ETDs, Faculty Publications, Conference Proceedings, Peer-reviewed & Society Journals, (some) Miscellaneous Collections, OER, SelectedWorks pages, (some) Research Center Materials, & Faculty Bookshelf
1 employee & 1 GRA (recent addition)
The Digital Kennesaw State University

4. Lots of Things – All the Things ***as of August 11th, 2016***
21 journals
8,728 papers
1,075,070 downloads
3 OER
8 conferences
Lots of Things – All the Things ***as of August 11th, 2016***

5. KSU Press

6. Future of Digital Commons
5 year strategic plan
Scholcomm and data librarians
New research center on campus
Internship
Another FT employee
Suite of services provided
Future of Digital Commons

7. Why?

9. Strengths / Opportunities
The bepress platform
Growing awareness on campus
Our Dean supports it
There’s a void and requests
Affordable Learning Georgia
Standard-scale transformation grant ($10,800 max)
Large-scale transformation grant ($30,000 max)
Strengths / Opportunities

10. Challenges Institutional change
Fighting/hiding from the defunct KSU Press image
Gaining support for all OA publishing
Funding (of course!)
Challenges

11. Aajay Murphy amurph18@kennesaw.edu