University of Florida
George A. Smathers Libraries
Digital Partnerships & Strategies
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.
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
- 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 Journal | 8 | 8 | ||
| Campus-based Student-driven Journals | 1 | 1 | ||
| Databases | ||||
| ETDs | 1826 | 1826 | ||
| Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings | 1 | 1 | ||
| Journals for External Groups | 6 | 5 | 1 | |
| Monographs | ||||
| Newsletters | 1 | |||
| Student Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
| Technical/Research Reports | ||||
| Textbooks | ||||
| Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses | 52 |
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
- 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)
- Caribbean
- agriculture
- entomology
- children's literature
- Jewish studies
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsUniversity 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
- audio
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- modeling
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
- OJS
- Pressbooks
- Scalar
- WordPress
- SobekCM; Omeka
- 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 services under discussion
- HathiTrust
- In-house
- Local brown storage for massive storage support through UF’s multiple data centers
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.