University of Iowa
University of Iowa Libraries
Digital Research and Publishinglib-ir@uiowa.edu
www.lib.uiowa.edu/drp/publishing
@IowaResO
United States
Primary Contact:
Wendy Robertson
Digital Scholarship Librarian
319-335-5821
Program Overview
Digital Research and Publishing explores ways that academic libraries can best leverage digital collections, resources, and expertise to support faculty and student scholars by: collaborating on interdisciplinary scholarship built upon digital collections; offering publishing services to support sustainable scholarly communication; engaging the community through participatory digital initiatives; promoting widespread use and reuse of locally built repositories and archives; and advancing new technologies that support digital research and publishing.
Year publishing activities began: 2009
Organization: services are distributed across library units/departments
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: library staff (1.5); graduate students (0.5)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2014:
Library publications in 2014: faculty-driven journals (6); student-driven journals (2); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (1); technical/ research reports (9); faculty conference papers and proceedings (1); newsletters (1); ETDs (530)
Number of open access titles:
Number of paid titles:
Number of hybrid titles:
Media formats: text
Disciplinary specialties:
Top publications: Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (journal); Medieval Feminist Forum (journal); Proceedings in Obstetrics & Gynecology (journal); Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies (journal); Poroi (journal)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 90
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students
External partners: Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons); CONTENTdm; WordPress
Digital preservation strategy: Archive-It; LOCKSS; in-house; digital preservation services under discussion
Additional services: cataloging; metadata; notification of A&I sources; ISSN registration; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; peer review management; digitization; hosting of supplemental content; audio/video streaming
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Working on adding additional services, such as DOIs, HTML versions of articles, and possibly some formatting of content; assessing campus needs for datasets.View All Entries