University of Illinois Chicago

University Library

Academic Library · United States

• https://researchguides.uic.edu/sc
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Assessment and Scholarly Communications

https://researchguides.uic.edu/sc

Sandra De Groote, Head, Assessment and Scholarly Communications
Phone: 312-413-9494
Email: sgroote@uic.edu

Program Overview

• Publishing activities began: 2010
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1
• Individual people: 1
• Students: Graduate student(s); Undergraduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Charge backs/cost sharing; Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Datasets
• Educational resources
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Grey literature
• Journals

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Individual faculty
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  
• 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): No

Technologies & Services

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Policies

Additional Information

Last Year:
We are currently hosting our own installation of OJS but will be moving to a hosted service.

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