University of Florida

George A. Smathers Libraries

Academic Library · United States

• http://librarypress.domains.uflib.ufl.edu
• DigPart-Staff@uflib.ufl.edu

Digital Partnerships & Strategies

http://librarypress.domains.uflib.ufl.edu

Perry Collins, Interim Chair, Digital Partnerships & Strategies; Editor-in-Chief, Library Press@UF
Email: perrycollins@ufl.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida engage 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.

• Publishing activities began: 2006
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: Most
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across campus
• Advisory/editorial board: Yes
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 3.25
• Individual people: 5
• Students: Graduate student(s); Undergraduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Endowment income; Grants; Library operating budget; Non-library campus budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Databases
• Datasets
• Educational resources
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Expansive digital publications
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Monographs

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; Individual faculty; Graduate student; Undergraduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  LibraryPress@UF is an imprint of the libraries and the University of Florida Press. Libraries staff manage editorial responsibilities, design, and publishing platform management and hosting. We work with UF Press on production, dissemination, and marketing, as well as broader knowledge exchange around academic publishing.
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners but only if in our disciplinary specialty
• Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: Works in Caribbean studies across formats
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

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Policies

Adopted Policies:
Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication