2021 Library Publishing Directory

University of Central Florida

John C. Hitt Library

Digital Initiatives

Lee Dotson, Interim Department Head, Technology Solutions & Digital Initiatives
Phone: 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%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • 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 programs

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)

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:
  • Digital preservation services under discussion
Service Vendors: bepress
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