University of Central Florida
John C. Hitt Library
Digital Initiatives
Lee Dotson, Interim Department Head, Technology Solutions & Digital InitiativesPhone: 407-823-1236
Email: lee.dotson@ucf.edu
Program Overview
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
- Location: United States
- Languages published: English
- Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
- Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
- Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
- Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
- Peer Reviewed Journals: 90%
- Professional staff: 1.5
- Paraprofessional staff: 1.5
- Undergraduates: 1
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; datasets; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, inactive back-issues; monographs; newsletters; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses; Graduate capstones.| 2020 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference papers and proceedings, faculty | ||||
| Conference papers and proceedings, student | ||||
| Databases | ||||
| Datasets | ||||
| Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules) | ||||
| Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) | ||||
| Journals, campus-based faculty-created | ||||
| Journals, campus-based student-created | ||||
| Journals, contracted by external groups | ||||
| Journals, inactive back-issues | ||||
| Monographs | ||||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Technical/Research Reports | ||||
| Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses |
2020: New publications from July 2019 to June 2020. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.
OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.
Highlights
- Exploring the Effects of Social Media Use on the Mental Health of Young Adults (honors thesis)
- The Impact Of Family Influence And Involvement On Career Development (ETD)
- University of Central Florida Graduate Catalog, 2018-2019 (monograph)
- Characteristics Of Academic Writing In Education (ETD)
- Part 3: Process Theories of Motivation (course project)
- social and behavioral sciences
- history
- engineering
- education
- medicine and health sciences
Technologies & Services
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
- Digital Commons (bepress)
- analytics
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- digitization
- hosting of supplemental content
- metadata
- peer review management
- training
- Digital preservation services under discussion