Florida State University

Florida State University Libraries

Academic Library · United States

Florida State Open Publishing

https://publishing.lib.fsu.edu/

Devin Soper, Director, Office of Digital Research & Scholarship
Phone: 850-645-2600
Email: dsoper@fsu.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Florida State Open Publishing provides publishing services for journals, monographs, textbooks, and other scholarly and creative works. We consult on a variety of scholarly publishing topics and digital research tools and methodologies. We aim to provide open access publishing expertise, services, and platforms to enhance the scholarly output of Florida State University students, faculty, and staff.
  • Publishing activities began: 2011
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: Most
  • Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across library units/departments
  • Advisory/editorial board: Yes
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 3
  • Individual people: 9
  • Students: Graduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Library operating budget, Non-library campus budget

Publishing Activities

  • Datasets
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Expansive digital publications
  • Grey literature
  • Journals
  • Monographs
  • Multimedia
  • Open educational resources
  • Posters


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 7
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 3
  • Campus-based student-created: 4
  • Peer-reviewed: 4
  • Currently inactive or archived: 1
Monograph/Book Publishing:
  • Monographs published: 1
  • Peer-reviewed: 1

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Journal of Postsecondary Student Success (journal)
  • Athanor (journal)
  • Humanism Evolving Through Art and Literature (journal)
  • Cognitive Information Processing: Career Theory, Research, and Practice (book)
  • First Semester in Numerical Analysis with Julia (textbook)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Educational research

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

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • modeling
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • Islandora
  • Manifold
  • Omeka
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  • Scalar
  • WordPress

Additional Services:
  • assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
  • Indexing services (e.g.
  • Compiling indexes and/or tables of contents
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • budget preparation
  • cataloging
  • contract/license preparation
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • print-on-demand
  • training
  • typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • PKP Open Preservation Network
  • Amazon Glacier
  • Amazon S3
  • Archive-It
  • Archivematica
  • LOCKSS

Policies

  • Accessibility Policy: https://publishing.lib.fsu.edu/principles-policies/
  • Diversity Policy: https://publishing.lib.fsu.edu/principles-policies/
  • Open Access Policy: https://publishing.lib.fsu.edu/principles-policies/
  • Peer Review Policy: https://publishing.lib.fsu.edu/principles-policies/
  • Preservation Policy: https://publishing.lib.fsu.edu/principles-policies/

  • Adopted Policies:
    Have used COPE guidelines in crafting journal-level editorial policies in collaboration with journal editors.
    Highlighted Publication

    Journal of Postsecondary Student Success

    The Journal of Postsecondary Student Success (JPSS) is a quarterly, open-access, interdisciplinary journal that publishes peer-reviewed research, editorials, and practitioner reports related to student success in higher education. We welcome submissions from both scholars and practitioners from all disciplines that involve student success, institutional effectiveness, and educational policy.

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