University of Arizona
University of Arizona Libraries
Office of Digital Innovation and StewardshipUnited States
Primary Contact:
Dan Lee
Director, Office of Copyright Management & Scholarly Communication
520-621-6433
Program Overview
The Office of Digital Innovation and Stewardship provides tools, services, and expertise that enable the creation, distribution, and preservation of scholarly works and research data in support of the mission of the University of Arizona.
Year publishing activities began: 1994
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (3.25); paraprofessional staff (1); undergraduate students (0.5)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2015:
Library publications in 2015: campus-based faculty-driven journals (5); campus-based student-driven journals (3); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (5); monographs (1); faculty conference papers and proceedings (76); student conference papers and proceedings (159); newsletters (3); ETDs (23115); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (1738); periodicals
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Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data
Disciplinary specialties: agriculture; life sciences; dendrochronology; archaeology; geosciences
Top publications: Radiocarbon; Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections; Coyote Papers; Arizona Anthropologist; ETDs
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners: International Society of Lymphology; Society for Range Management; Tree Ring Society; Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science
Publishing platform(s): CONTENTdm; DSpace; OJS; locally developed software
Digital preservation strategy: Amazon S3; LOCKSS; in-house; digital preservation services under discussion
Additional services: print-on-demand training; analytics; cataloging; metadata; ISSN registry; ISBN registry; author copyright advisory; other author advisory; digitization; hosting of supplemental content
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Discussing collaborative efforts with the university press.View All Entries