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2022 Library Publishing Directory

University of Florida

George A. Smathers Libraries

Digital Partnerships & Strategies

  • http://librarypress.domains.uflib.ufl.edu
  • DigPart-Staff@uflib.ufl.edu
Laurie Taylor, Senior Director for Library Technology and Digital Strategies
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 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%
Staffing (in full-time equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 3.25
  • Graduate students: 0.25
Funding sources for publishing activities:
  • 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

Top publications:
  • 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)
Disciplinary specialties:
  • Caribbean studies
  • children's literature
  • agriculture
  • entomology
  • book arts

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

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

Technologies & Services

Media formats:
  • audio
  • concept maps or other visualizations
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
Softwares & platforms:
  • OJS
  • Omeka
  • Pressbooks
  • Scalar
  • WordPress
  • locally developed software
  • SobekCM

Additional services:
  • 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 strategy:
  • Digital preservation services under discussion
  • In-house
  • PKP Preservation Network
Service vendors: CoreSource; Crossref; ISSN International Center; LightningSource; OCLC; Public Knowledge Project
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