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2020 Library Publishing Directory

University of Florida

George A. Smathers Libraries

Digital Partnerships & Strategies

  • https://cms.uflib.ufl.edu/digitalpartnerships
  • DigPart-Staff@uflib.ufl.edu
2020 CONTACT:
Laurie Taylor, Chair, Digital Partnerships & Strategies
Phone: 352-273-2902
Email: laurien@ufl.edu

Program Overview

The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida engages in library publishing as a collaborative endeavor. The Libraries publish scholarly, educational, and creative works, with an emphasis on promoting public access to scholarship and ethical practices in scholarly publishing. The Libraries’ publishing initiatives complement the work of the University of Florida Press (UF Press) to collectively contribute to the shared missions of the Libraries, Press, and UF.

The LibraryPress@UF, an imprint of the Smathers Libraries and UF Press, works alongside our partners to disseminate open access publications for a range of audiences:

  • Works based on the Libraries’ unique collections
  • Scholarly journals and magazines
  • Open educational resources, where the Libraries’ team supports creation, publishing, and discoverability
  • Digital scholarship and born-digital publications

The Libraries’ Institutional Repository at UF (IR@UF) provides a permanent access and preservation repository for publishing, and serves as the publication system for original work, including theses and dissertations, conference proceedings and presentations, reports, newsletters, creative works, and datasets.

The Libraries’ team provides training and promotes best practices in publishing.

Publishing Activities Began: 2006
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across campus
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: Yes
Peer Reviewed Journals: 90%
Journals that assess article processing charges: 5%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 3.5
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; databases; 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; monographs; newsletters; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses; Born-digital scholarship; exhibition and collections publications.

  2019 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal88
Campus-based Student-driven Journals11
Databases
ETDs18261826
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings11
Journals for External Groups 651
Monographs
Newsletters1
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings
Technical/Research Reports
Textbooks
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses52

2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. 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 may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.


Other/Additional Publishing Activities:

  • Library Publishing Activities: Born-digital scholarship; exhibition and collections publications

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • SOURCE: The Magazine of the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries (journal)
  • Florida Entomologist (journal)
  • ARL Position Description Bank (database)
  • Journal of Undergraduate Research (journal)
  • Inspired by Cuba! (monograph)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Caribbean
  • agriculture
  • entomology
  • children's literature
  • Jewish studies

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
University Press Partners: University of Florida Press

Openess to Partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • concept maps or other visualizations
  • data
  • images
  • modeling
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • OJS
  • Pressbooks
  • Scalar
  • WordPress
  • SobekCM; Omeka

Additional Services:
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • budget preparation
  • business model development
  • cataloging
  • compiling indexes and/or TOCs
  • contract/license preparation
  • data visualization
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • image services
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • notification of A&I sources
  • open URL support
  • outreach
  • print-on-demand
  • training
  • Usage and download statistics
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Digital preservation services under discussion
  • HathiTrust
  • In-house
  • Local brown storage for massive storage support through UF’s multiple data centers
Service Vendors: CoreSource; Crossref; ISSN International Center; LightningSource; OCLC; Public Knowledge Project; University of Florida Press

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
Library publishing services will continue to develop to emphasize UF's commitment to open access, affordable education, and diversity in publications.
Other Information:
The Digital Partnerships & Strategies Department is new, with three hires in the past year. Our core team is involved with library publishing efforts in general as well as dedicated projects under the LibraryPress@UF imprint.
Highlighted Publication

SOURCE: The Magazine of the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries

SOURCE: The Magazine of the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries allows readers to view remarkable materials from our collections, learn about our innovative research and collaborations, and explore highlights of exceptional faculty and student services provided by the Smathers Libraries.

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