Library Publishing Directory

2019

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):
  • 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 programs
External Partners: 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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