Library Publishing Directory

2019

Florida International University

University Libraries

Digital Collections Center

2019 CONTACT:
Jill Krefft, Institutional Repository Coordinator
Phone: 305-348-6932
Email: jkrefft@fiu.edu

Program Overview

The mission of the Florida International University publishing program is to provide a set of services and tools to host, provide open access to, and preserve research and scholarship created by members of FIU.

Publishing Activities Began: 2009
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 75%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 2
  • Paraprofessional staff: 1.25
  • Graduate students:
  • Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Materials Budget: %
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%
  • Non-library Campus Budget: %
  • Endowment Income: %
  • Charitable Contributions: %
  • Grants: %
  • Sales Revenue: %
  • Licensing Revenue: %
  • Charge Backs: %
  • Other: %

Publishing Activities

All Library Publishing Activities:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 4
  • Monographs: 1
  • Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 204
  • Student Conference Papers and Proceedings: 382
  • ETDs: 508
Open Access Publishing:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 2

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • biological sciences
  • education
  • humanities
  • earth and environmental studies
  • medicine and health sciences
Top Publications:
  • Electronic Theses and Dissertations
  • South Florida Education Research Conference Proceedings
  • Class, Race and Corporate Power
  • Hospitality Review
  • Conference for Undergraduate Research at FIU

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • images
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • bepress (Digital Commons)
Additional Services:
  • DOI distribution
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • open URL support
  • outreach
  • peer review management
  • training
Service Vendors: Crossref, LOC

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
Continue to expand journal publishing services; support undergraduate and graduate student collections; build data publishing services
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