Digital Publishing Support

Scholarly Communication & Digital Publishing Services (ScholPub) helps WashU students, faculty, and staff create and share books, journals, and web projects using Libraries-supported digital publishing platforms.

Have a project in mind? Contact [email protected] with questions or to request a consultation.

Why Digital Publishing?

ScholPub’s digital publishing support leverages web-based technologies and software to make research and scholarship available to the public. Digital publications can evolve over time, incorporate different types of media, and support teaching, collaboration, and public engagement.

Our Platforms

• Open Books (Pressbooks) | Author-friendly, accessible platform for creating digital books in multiple formats.
  • Good for: open textbooks, monographs, OER, edited collections, guides, manuals, lecture notes, and other long-form publications that may benefit from continued revision and reuse.
  • See examples in the Open Books catalog.
• Open Journals (Janeway) | Full journal platform with submission, peer review, production, and editorial workflows, including DOIs for published articles.
  • Good for: scholarly journals, undergraduate and graduate research journals, student publications, and other recurring academic or creative publications
  • See, for example, The Washington University Journal of Undergraduate Research (WUJUR)
• WebPubs (Reclaim Hosting) | Flexible web space for digital scholarly projects.
  • Good for: digital exhibits and collections, research sites, class projects, multimedia works, and experimental forms of web-based scholarship.

Things to Know

• There is no cost to you. The Libraries maintain these platforms as a service to the WashU community.
• You keep the rights to your work. You choose the license, including whether to make it openly reusable.
• The Libraries handle the infrastructure. ScholPubs manages hosting, updates, and backups.
• Accessibility is built in. Our platforms are configured to support accessible publishing, and we will help you meet accessibility standards in your own content.

Related Resources

Publishing an open textbook or course materials? See Open Educational Resources.

Questions about permissions, licensing, or using third-party material in your publication should see Copyright Support.