University of Florida
George A. Smathers Libraries
Digital Partnerships & Strategies
Laurie Taylor, Senior Director for Library Technology and Digital StrategiesEmail: 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 of publishing efforts (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%
- Professional staff: 3.25
- Graduate students: 0.25
- Library operating budget: 80%
- Non-library campus budget: 10%
- Endowment income: 10%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); expansive digital publications (digital humanities or other complex multimedia projects); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; journals, inactive back-issues; monographs; undergraduate capstones/honors theses; exhibition catalogues; artist books; publishing guides.| 2021 | Open access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference papers and proceedings, faculty | ||||
| Conference papers and proceedings, student | ||||
| Databases | ||||
| Datasets | ||||
| Educational resources (e.g., textbooks, course modules) | 3 | 3 | ||
| Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) | 3170 | 3170 | ||
| Journals, campus-based faculty-created | 8 | 8 | ||
| Journals, campus-based student-created | 2 | 2 | ||
| Journals, contracted by external groups | 7 | 6 | 1 | |
| Journals, inactive back issues | 2 | 2 | ||
| Monographs | 1 | 1 | ||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Technical/research reports | ||||
| Undergraduate capstones/honors theses | 107 | 107 |
2021: New publications from July 2020 to June 2021. 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
- Impact of Materials on Society (textbook)
- SOURCE: The Magazine of the University of Florida Libraries (journal)
- Studies in African Linguistics (journal)
- Journal of Undergraduate Research (journal)
- Migration, Mobility, Sustainability: Caribbean Studies + Digital Humanities (educational resource)
- Caribbean studies
- children's literature
- agriculture
- entomology
- book arts
Partners
Internal partners: campus departments or programsOpenness 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
Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing?
- Name of consortium: Florida Virtual Campus
- Type of support: Hosting and technical support for Open Journal Systems
- University press partner: University of Florida Press
Technologies & Services
- audio
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
- OJS
- Omeka
- Pressbooks
- Scalar
- WordPress
- locally developed software
- SobekCM
- DOI distribution
- applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- budget preparation
- cataloging
- compiling indexes and/or TOCs
- contract/license preparation
- copyediting
- 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
- open URL support
- outreach
- peer review management
- print-on-demand
- training
- typesetting
- Digital preservation services under discussion
- In-house
- PKP Preservation Network