University of Florida
George A. Smathers Libraries
Digital Partnerships & Strategies
Laurie Taylor, Senior Director for Library Technology and Digital StrategiesPhone: 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
- Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
- Program Advisory/Editorial Board: Yes
- Peer Reviewed Journals: 90%
- Journals that assess article processing charges: 5%
- Professional staff: 3.5
- Graduate students: 0.25
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Name of consortium:
- Type of support:
- University Press Partners: University of Florida Press
- Relationship between library publishing and university press: Please describe the relationship between your library publishing program and your university press
Technologies & Services
- audio
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- modeling
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
- OJS
- Omeka
- Pressbooks
- Scalar
- WordPress
- SobekCM
- 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 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)
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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