University of Houston
University of Houston Libraries
Digital Research Services
2019 CONTACT:Taylor Davis-Van Atta, Digital Scholarship Coordinator
Phone: 713-743-6390
Email: tgdavisv@central.uh.edu
Program Overview
University of Houston Libraries provides a growing suite of publishing services and solutions for all forms of student scholarship as well as faculty scholarly works, born-digital exhibits, open educational resources, and bespoke digital research projects and outputs.
Publishing Activities Began: 2010
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1–5): 4 - Growing
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1–5): 4 - Growing
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 1
- Paraprofessional staff: 1
- Graduate students:
- Undergraduates: 2
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: %
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
- Non-library Campus Budget: %
- Endowment Income: %
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: %
- Sales Revenue: %
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: %
- Other: %
Publishing Activities
All Library Publishing Activities:- Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 40
- Student Conference Papers and Proceedings: 250
- Databases: 1
- ETDs: 600
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
- Full range of academic subjects in student and faculty works
Top Publications:
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programsBest publications to refer to our program: Texas Digital Library
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- data
- images
- text
Softwares & Platforms:
- CONTENTdm
- DSpace
- Dataverse
- Fedora
- OJS
- Samvera
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Amazon Glacier
- Archivematica
- Digital preservation services under discussion
- In-house
Additional Services:
- analytics
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- cataloging
- data visualization
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- metadata
- outreach
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:UH Libraries is building capacity for supporting and publishing digital research projects, OER, multimodal and interactive products, visualizations, models, and web-based publications.
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