Library Publishing Directory
University of Illinois Chicago
University Library
Academic Library · United StatesAssessment and Scholarly Communications
https://researchguides.uic.edu/scSandra De Groote, Head, Assessment and Scholarly Communications
Phone: 312-413-9494
Email: sgroote@uic.edu
Program Overview
- Publishing activities began: 2010
- 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: Centralized library publishing unit/department
- Advisory/editorial board: No
- Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1
- Individual people: 1
- Students: Graduate student(s); Undergraduate student(s)
- Funding sources: Charge backs/cost sharing; Library operating budget
Publishing Activities
- Datasets
- Educational resources
- Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
- Grey literature
- Journals
Journal Publishing:
- Journals published: 8
- Campus-based faculty-created: 4
- Peer-reviewed: 8
- Required fee to enable Open Access: 1
- Currently inactive or archived: 2
Highlights
Top Publications:
- First Monday (journal)
- Online Journal of Public Health Informatics (journal)
- Journal of Biocommunication (journal)
- Dialogue & Discourse (journal)
- AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research (conference proceedings
Disciplinary Specialties:
- Health science
- Information science
Partners
- Internal partners: Individual faculty
- Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
- Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
- 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:
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
Software & Platforms:
- figshare
- OJS
- Omeka
- Scalar
- WordPress
Additional Services:
- author advisory - copyright
- Indexing services (e.g. assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
- analytics
- copyediting
- dataset management
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- In-house
- LOCKSS
Policies
Additional Information
Last Year:We are currently hosting our own installation of OJS but will be moving to a hosted service.