University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Scholarly Communication and Publishing

https://www.library.illinois.edu/scp/

Dan Tracy, Head, Scholarly Communication and Publishing
Phone: 217-300-8439
Email: dtracy@illinois.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Our press, the Illinois Open Publishing Network, publishes scholarly work across the disciplines and seeks to lower the cost of producing, disseminating, and preserving high-quality educational and scholarly publications through optimized use of resources. The library also provides services for authors to share their underlying research data to the Illinois Data Bank and other scholarly outputs such as newsletters, proceedings, and more to IDEALS. Both Illinois Data Bank and IDEALS are operated by the University of Illinois Library to centralize, preserve, provide persistent and reliable public access to research outputs created by Illinois faculty, staff, and students.

• Publishing activities began: 2010
• Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across campus
• Advisory/editorial board: Yes
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 4.5
• Individual people: 8
• Students: Graduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Endowment income; Grants; Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers or proceedings
• Datasets
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Expansive digital publications
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Monographs
• Newsletters

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  We are collaborating with our university press to publish a digital project that will parallel a forthcoming print title they have in progress.
• 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)
• Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: Multimodal (text plus multimedia) publications; open textbooks; companion websites for traditional text monographs; publications fitting the Pressbooks, Omeka S, and Scalar platforms.
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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Additional Information

Last Year:
An increased focus on open textbooks due to funding on them from the state.

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Future Plans:
We are exploring collaboration opportunities with the Big Ten Academic Alliance publishing group.

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