University of Houston Libraries
M.D. Anderson Library
Digital Research Services
Taylor Davis-Van Atta, Director, Digital Research CommonsPhone: 713-743-6390
Email: tgdavisv@central.uh.edu
Program Overview
University of Houston Libraries provides a growing suite of open publishing services and solutions for a wide range of student and faculty scholarly works, born-digital exhibits, open educational resources, and bespoke digital research projects and outputs.
- Publishing Activities Began: 2010
- Location: United States
- Languages published: English
- Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
- Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
- Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
- Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
- Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
- Professional staff: 2
- Paraprofessional staff: 1
- Graduate students: 1
- Undergraduates: 3
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; datasets; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, inactive back-issues; monographs; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.| 2020 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference papers and proceedings, faculty | 300 | 300 | ||
| Conference papers and proceedings, student | 350 | 350 | ||
| Databases | ||||
| Datasets | 8 | 6 | ||
| Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules) | 25 | 12 | ||
| Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) | 600 | 400 | ||
| Journals, campus-based faculty-created | 3 | 3 | ||
| Journals, campus-based student-created | ||||
| Journals, contracted by external groups | ||||
| Journals, inactive back-issues | 3 | 3 | ||
| Monographs | 1 | 1 | ||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Technical/Research Reports | 6 | 6 | ||
| Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses | 74 | 68 |
2020: New publications from July 2019 to June 2020. 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.
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- DSpace
- Dataverse
- Fedora
- OJS
- Omeka
- Pressbooks
- WordPress
- locally developed software
Additional Services:
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- budget preparation
- cataloging
- contract/license preparation
- data visualization
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISBN registry
- ISSN registry
- marketing
- outreach
- peer review management
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Archivematica
- HathiTrust
- In-house
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:UH Libraries is building its capacity to host, maintain, and preserve "living" digital research projects and interactive web-based publications; expanding its Alternative Textbook Incentive/OER Program; and establishing an in-house open monograph production workflow.
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