University of Central Florida
John C. Hitt Library
Digital Initiativesstars@ucf.edu
United 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, using Open Journal System (OJS) open source publishing software to publish electronic journals from scratch and host electronic journals in Florida OJ, and administering the STARS institutional repository hosted on the Digital Commons platform.
Year publishing activities began: 2004
Organization: services are distributed across library units/departments
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff, paraprofessional staff, graduate students, undergraduates
Funding sources (%): library operating budget, grants
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5): (3) Developmental Stage
Open access focus (1–5): 4
Advisory/editorial board: No
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2018:
Library publications in 2018: campus-based faculty-driven journals (2); ETDs (470); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (145)
Number of open access titles: journals (2); monographs ()
Number of paid titles: journals (); monographs ()
Number of hybrid titles: journals (); monographs ()
Media formats: text; images; audio; video
Disciplinary specialties: English language learner education; Standards-based education; Assessment; Community initiatives; Higher education
Top publications: The Tapestry Journal (journal), Illuminations (journal)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs): 0
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners: Florida Virtual Campus
Publishing platform(s): Digital Commons; Florida Virtual Campus ETD hosting service; locally developed software; OJS
Digital preservation strategy: FCLA DAITSS
Additional services: outreach; training; analytics; cataloging; metadata digitization hosting of supplemental content