University of Central Florida (UCF)

John C. Hitt Library

Academic Library · United States

• https://library.ucf.edu/about/departments/technology-solutions-digital-initiatives/digital-initiatives/
• stars@ucf.edu

Digital Initiatives

https://library.ucf.edu/about/departments/technology-solutions-digital-initiatives/digital-initiatives/

Rachel Vacek, Associate Dean for Technology and Digital Strategies
Phone: 407-823-2508
Email: Rachel.Vacek@ucf.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The UCF Libraries provides publishing support for a wide range of digital scholarship, data, honors theses, graduate ETDs, and UCF-affiliated or UCF faculty-edited open access e-journals. Efforts to support broader dissemination of scholarship include enabling access to a wide audience through freely accessible databases and administering the STARS institutional repository hosted on the Digital Commons platform.

• Publishing activities began: 2004
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: One priority among many
• 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): 2.5
• Individual people: 3
• Students: Undergraduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers or proceedings
• Databases
• Datasets
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Expansive digital publications
• 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: Yes
  
• 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)
• Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: Content affiliated with the University of Central Florida; historical content for central Florida
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

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Additional Information

Last Year:
Focus on digital accessibility

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