University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press

Morris Library

Academic Library · United States

• lib-pprda@udel.edu

Division of Publishing, Preservation, Research and Digital Access

Paige Morgan, Head of Digital Initiatives and Preservation, Digital Publishing and Copyright Librarian
Email: paigecm@udel.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
We offer open access publishing opportunities to more comprehensively support, record, and promote the scholarly activities of faculty and students, providing opportunities for creating and widely disseminating new scholarship by faculty from our own and other institutions. We seek to educate researchers and community members about the larger contexts of open access and their options in terms of making their scholarship widely available, accessible, and discoverable, through our institutional repository and other platforms.

• Publishing activities began: 2016
• Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
  We still consider ourselves in the early stage, but within the past year have published the UD Press's first fully OA volume, as well as our first OER textbook created by a UD faculty member. Both of these publications have leveraged our institutional repository; we anticipate publishing through other platforms in the near future.
  
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: Most
• Publishing Languages: English; Spanish

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 3.5
• Individual people: 5
• Students: Graduate student(s), Undergraduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Grants; Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers or proceedings
• Datasets
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Monographs
• Multimedia
• Open educational resources

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; Individual faculty; Graduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
  The University of Delaware Press operates as part of the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press. The Press assists in advising authors in the development, editing, and dissemination strategies for library publications.
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners but only if in our disciplinary specialty
• Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: Projects and publications utilizing material from UD Special Collections.
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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Additional Information

Last Year:
We have recently added two new employees, an open educational resource (OER) publishing librarian and a publishing coordinator, who are already making strong contributions to our program. We are in the midst of a Mellon grant that will result in an open access publication developed within the Manifold platform, and we are adding a publication track to our existing OER Publishing Grant program. In the past year, the UD Press published its first open access title via the UDSpace Institutional Repository, and the broader publishing program released its first OER, created in Pressbooks.

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Future Plans:
In addition to the new OER publishing track, we will be making Pressbooks available to faculty campus wide to create OER and/or other open publications. The University of Delaware Press will be publishing open access versions of some of its titles via the Manifold platform.

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Other Information:
We expect significant growth within our program within the next two years!