Florida International University

University Libraries

Academic Library · United States

• https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu
• dcc@fiu.edu

Digital Collections Center

https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu

Jill Krefft, Research and Data Repository Coordinator
Phone: 305-348-6932
Email: jkrefft@fiu.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
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
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: Most
• Publishing Languages: English; Spanish

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 3.25
• Individual people: 4
• Students: Graduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Library materials budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Datasets
• Educational resources
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Multimedia
• Newsletters
• Posters

Highlights

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: 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): Yes

Technologies & Services

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