Building a Successful Partnership: Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Publications and Aquila

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In 2015, Gulf and Caribbean Research (GCR), the scientific journal published since 1961 by the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL), became the first peer-reviewed journal published via Aquila, the institutional repository at The University of Southern Mississippi’s University Libraries (UL). Based on this successful partnership, scanning began at UL Digital Laboratory of a second GCRL journal, Publications of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Museum. This four-issue specialty journal was published by GCRL from 1969-1974. As a part of Gunter Library’s 20-year project to document and preserve the history of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, plans are in place for digitizing additional serial and monographic titles published by GCRL over the last 70 years for inclusion into Aquila.