Florida State University

Florida State University Libraries

Academic Library · United States

• https://publishing.lib.fsu.edu/
• lib-digischol@fsu.edu

Office of Digital Research and Scholarship

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

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

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Florida State Open Publishing provides publishing services for journals, monographs, open educational resources, and digital scholarship projects. 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
• 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: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1.5
• Individual people: 4
• Funding sources: Library operating budget; non-library campus budget

Publishing Activities

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

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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