University of Chicago
University of Chicago Library
IT and Digital Scholarshiphttp://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ds
United States
Primary Contact:
Amy Buckland
Institutional Repository Manager
773-834-7377
Program Overview
Year publishing activities began: 2015
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (0.3); paraprofessional staff (0.1)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
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Publishing Activities
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Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners:
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons); DspaceDirect; locally developed software
Digital preservation strategy: AP Trust; HathiTrust; in-house
Additional services: outreach; training; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; dataset management; author copyright advisory; other author advisory; hosting of supplemental content
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: The library plans to begin a journal publishing program.We have launched Knowledge@UChicago, our institutional repository. The URL is http://knowledge.uchicago.edu. Email knowledge@lib.uchicago.edu. View All Entries