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
- Stage Comments:
- 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
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- 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.Highlights
Top Publications:
- 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)
Disciplinary Specialties:
- social and behavioral sciences
- history
- engineering
- education
- medicine and health sciences
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programsOpenness 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)
Best publications to refer to our program: content affiliated with the University of Central Florida; historical content for central Florida
Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing? no
Work with a university press? no
Administer a university press? no
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- Digital Commons (bepress)
Additional Services:
- analytics
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- digitization
- hosting of supplemental content
- metadata
- peer review management
- training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
Service Vendors: bepress - Digital preservation services under discussion