Library Publishing Directory

2019

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University Library

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

2019 CONTACT:
Daniel Tracy, Head of Scholarly Communication and Publishing
Phone: 217-300-8439
Email: dtracy@illinois.edu

Program Overview

The Scholarly Communication and Publishing Unit develops innovative, sustainable structures for the broad dissemination and enduring preservation of the scholarly conversation, towards the goal of ensuring that the benefits of scholarship accrue to everyone.

Publishing Activities Began: 2010
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 3 - Developmental
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: Yes
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 4
  • Paraprofessional staff:
  • Graduate students: 3
  • Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Materials Budget: %
  • Library Operating Budget: 66%
  • Non-library Campus Budget: 2%
  • Endowment Income: 10%
  • Charitable Contributions: %
  • Grants: 22%
  • Sales Revenue: %
  • Licensing Revenue: %
  • Charge Backs: %
  • Other: %

Publishing Activities

All Library Publishing Activities:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 2
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 7
  • ETDs: 1399
  • Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses: 15
Open Access Publishing:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 2
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 8
  • Monographs: 1

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • art and design
  • new media
  • history
  • literary criticism
Top Publications:
  • #TheJayZMixtape (Monograph)
  • Claude Monet: The Water-Lilies (Monograph)
  • Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus (Journal)

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
University Press Partners: University of Illinois Press

Best publications to refer to our program: New Media Caucus

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • concept maps or other visualizations
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
Softwares & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • OJS
  • OMP
  • Pressbooks
  • Scalar
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon Glacier
  • Digital preservation services under discussion
  • HathiTrust
  • In-house
Additional Services:
  • DOI distribution
  • applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
  • author advisory – copyright
  • cataloging
  • dataset management
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISBN registry
  • metadata
  • notification of A&I sources
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