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2021 Library Publishing Directory

University of Florida

George A. Smathers Libraries

Digital Partnerships & Strategies

  • https://digitalpartnerships.uflib.ufl.edu/
  • DigPart-Staff@uflib.ufl.edu
Laurie Taylor, Senior Director for Library Technology and Digital 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 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
  • Languages published: English
  • Organization: services distributed across campus
  • Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
  • Stage Comments:
  • 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
  • Graduate students: 0.25
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Operating Budget: 90%
  • Non-library Campus Budget: 10%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; databases; datasets; 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; journals, inactive back-issues; monographs; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

  2020 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases
Datasets
Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules)
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) 1106 1106
Journals, campus-based faculty-created 9 9
Journals, campus-based student-created 2 2
Journals, contracted by external groups 7 6 1
Journals, inactive back-issues
Monographs 1 1
Newsletters
Technical/Research Reports
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses 604 604

2020: New publications from July 2019 to June 2020. 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 offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • SOURCE: The Magazine of the University of Florida Libraries (journal)
  • Florida Entomologist (journal)
  • Madagascar from A to Z Madagasikara, A ka hatramin’ny (book)
  • Journal of Undergraduate Research (journal)
  • My Scrapbook of My Illness with Polio (book)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Caribbean studies
  • agriculture
  • entomology
  • children's literature
  • Jewish studies

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs

Openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners but only if in our disciplinary specialty

Best publications to refer to our program: works in Caribbean studies across formats; works with specialized graphic design needs

Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing? no

Work with a university press? yes
  • University Press Partners: University of Florida Press
Administer a university press? yes

Technologies & Services

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

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
  • copyediting
  • 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
  • outreach
  • peer review management
  • print-on-demand
  • training
  • typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Digital preservation services under discussion
  • HathiTrust
  • In-house
  • UFAR (UF Archiving, system and tools for ingest utilizing the Digital Metadata Steward and 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

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
With three personnel added to the LibraryPress@UF program in 2018-2019, we have scaled up the number of projects and scope of the work undertaken by our program. This includes in-progress digital monographs and open educational resources, as well as broader development of web publishing infrastructure. We are also working to more intentionally address equity, inclusion, and justice in our program as we consider potential partnerships, the disciplinary focus of new publications, and journal publishing policies.
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