UNC Greensboro

UNCG University Libraries

Academic Library · United States

Technical Services

http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/technical_services/

Anna Craft, Professor and Coordinator of Scholarly Communications
Email: arcraft@uncg.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The UNCG University Libraries support the publishing of open access content through hosting and sharing open journals, unique electronic theses and dissertations, research data sets, and open educational resources (OER).
  • Publishing activities began: 2004
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across library units/departments
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 0.5
  • Individual people: 3
  • Funding sources: Grants, Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Datasets
  • Educational resources
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Expansive digital publications
  • Journals


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 6
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 6
  • Peer-reviewed: 6
  • Currently inactive or archived: 7

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • International Journal of Critical Pedagogy (journal)
  • Journal of Learning Spaces (journal)
  • Journal of Appreciative Education (journal)
  • Communication Center Journal (journal)
  • North Carolina Journal of Mathematics and Statistics (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Learning spaces
  • Critical pedagogy
  • Appreciative education
  • Mathematics and statistics
  • Communications

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  • Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g., local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • data
  • text
Software & Platforms:
  • Dataverse
  • Islandora
  • locally developed software
  • OJS

Additional Services:
  • author advisory - other
  • cataloging
  • digitization
  • outreach
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • In-house