Library Publishing Directory

University of Houston

M.D. Anderson Library

Academic Library · United States

Research Services

https://drc.lib.uh.edu

Taylor Davis-Van Atta, Head of Research Services
Phone: 713-743-6390
Email: tgdavisv@central.uh.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
University of Houston Libraries provides a robust suite of publishing services and solutions for a wide range of student and faculty scholarly works, research data and databases, scholarly journals, digital exhibits, open educational resources, and hosting and cloud solutions for web-based research projects.
  • Publishing activities began: 2010
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: One priority among many
  • Portion of Open Access publications: Most
  • Publishing Languages: English; Spanish

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across library units/departments
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 4
  • Individual people: 6
  • Students: Graduate student(s), Undergraduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers or proceedings
  • Databases
  • Datasets
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Expansive digital publications
  • Grey literature
  • Journals
  • Monographs
  • Multimedia
  • Newsletters
  • Open educational resources
  • Posters


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 4
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 3
  • Campus-based student-created: 1
  • Contracted by external groups: 4
  • Peer-reviewed: 4
  • Currently inactive or archived: 2
Monograph/Book Publishing:
  • Monographs published: 1
  • Peer-reviewed: 1
Open Educational Resources Publishing:
  • Open Educational Resources: 8
  • Peer-reviewed Open Educational Resources: 4

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Digital humanities

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; Individual faculty; Graduate students; Undergraduate students
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
    Arte Publico Press/US Latino Digital Humanities program. The Libraries works with this group on shared publishing infrastructure for digital humanities projects/outputs.
  • Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g., local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • modeling
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
  • visualizations
Software & Platforms:
  • Dataverse
  • DSpace
  • locally developed software
  • Manifold
  • Omeka
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  • Pressbooks
  • PubPub
  • Scalar
  • WordPress
Additional Services:
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • DOI distribution
  • audio/video streaming
  • cataloging
  • data visualization
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Archivematica
  • HathiTrust
  • In-house

Additional Information

Last Year:
UH Libraries partnered with university research administration to introduce expanded centralized hosting infrastructure and support for public/digital humanities scholarship via the UH Digital Humanities Core facility. Additionally, UH Libraries continues to facilitate the Alternative Textbook Incentive Program and an Open Educational Resource (OER) Creation Program, in partnership with the Rebus Community Textbook Success Program, to provide professional development and financial support for faculty to create high-quality OER that will be used as required course material in a UH course or program and that fills a gap in existing OER content.
Future Plans:
The UH Digital Humanities Core facility, a partnership between UH Libraries and UH research administration, will continue expanding its custom cloud hosting infrastructure for public and digital humanities research.
Highlighted Publication

Investigating the Earth: Exercises for Physical Geology

Investigating the Earth: Exercises for Physical Geology is an open-access physical geology lab manual which features diverse examples from across the globe to describe principles of fundamental topics like plate tectonics, topographic mapping, minerals, and more. The exercises, which are written in a casual language that students can easily understand, heavily rely on student observations and inquiry-based learning.

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