University of Central Florida
John C. Hitt Library
Information Technology and Digital InitiativesUnited States
Primary Contact:
Lee Dotson
Digital Initiatives Librarian
407-823-1236
Program Overview
The UCF Libraries currently provides publishing support for 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 using Open Journal Systems (OJS) open source publishing software to publish electronic journals from scratch and host electronic journals in Florida OJ. The UCF Libraries collaborates with the Florida Virtual Campus to provide these services.
Year publishing activities began: 2004
Organization: services are distributed across library units/departments
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Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
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Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2014:
Library publications in 2014: faculty-driven journals (1); ETDs (260); undergraduate capstone/honors theses (188)
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Media formats: text
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Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty
External partners: Florida Virtual Campus
Publishing platform(s): OJS/OCS/OMP; locally developed software
Digital preservation strategy: FCLA DAITSS
Additional services: outreach; training; analytics; cataloging; metadata; hosting of supplemental content