Library Publishing Directory

University of Kansas

KU Libraries

Academic Library · United States

Digital Publishing Services

https://lib.ku.edu/digital-publishing

Marianne Reed, Digital Publishing and Repository Manager
Phone: 785-864-8913
Email: mreed@ku.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Digital Publishing Services, an initiative of KU Libraries, provides publishing services that increase the impact and visibility of the high-quality research of KU faculty, staff and students. Our online open access publishing model follows best practices and standards that are designed to increase the reach and impact of the research, as well as providing long-term stewardship of the material after publication. In order to facilitate broad participation by the KU community in open access publishing, all of our services are offered free of charge.
  • Publishing activities began: 2007
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: Most
  • Publishing Languages: English; Spanish; German; French; Portuguese; Russian; Slovenian

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across library units/departments
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 2
  • Individual people: 3
  • Students: Undergraduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Library operating budget; Non-library campus budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers or proceedings
  • Datasets
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Grey literature
  • Journals
  • Monographs
  • Open educational resources
  • Posters


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 26
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 25
  • Campus-based student-created: 1
  • Peer-reviewed: 26
  • Currently inactive or archived: 30
Monograph/Book Publishing:
  • Monographs published: 2
  • Peer-reviewed: 2
Open Educational Resources Publishing:
  • Open Educational Resources: 4

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Reptiles and Amphibians (journal)
  • KU-phoria! A collection of stories about KU traditions, KU Info and KU basketball (monograph)
  • Recovering Untold Stories: An Enduring Legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education Decision (monograph)
  • Chord Progression Handbook For Guitar, Piano, and Other Accompaniment Instruments (OER)
  • Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy (OER)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Herpetology
  • Languages, literature, and culture (German, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, Slovenian)
  • Interdisciplinary research
  • Medicine
  • Paleontology

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; Individual faculty; Graduate students; Undergraduate students
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
    Campus departments often publish their own research series, working papers and technical reports. For those that want visibility and long-term preservation, we work with them to add content to KU ScholarWorks, KU's online institutional repository. This is a mediated service that is provided without charge.
  • 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: We work with faculty, staff and student authors and editors with a KU connection. We can help them publish interdisciplinary scholarly monographs, society journals, open textbooks, and commercially-published journals that want to move to an open access model without APCs. We are always interested in expanding the reach of marginalized voices adding more work created by those individuals/groups at KU to the institutional repository and to our journal and book publishing programs.
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • modeling
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
  • visualizations
Software & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  • Pressbooks
Additional Services:
  • assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
  • Indexing services (e.g.
  • Compiling indexes and/or tables of contents
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • business model development
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • print-on-demand
  • training
  • typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Other (please specify)
  • DuraCloud
  • HathiTrust
  • Portico

Policies

  • Digital Publishing: https://lib.ku.edu/services/digital-publishing
  • Principles of transparency and best practice in scholarly publishing: https://doaj.org/apply/transparency/

    • Adopted Policies:
    Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE); DOAJ; Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA); World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

    Additional Information

    Last Year:
    We are focusing on updating our publishing infrastructure, including Open Journal Systems and DSpace, and updating user documentation for each.
    Future Plans:
    Future directions for the Digital Publishing & Repository unit include moving to a new version of DSpace and providing user documentation and support, helping editors prepare for the implementation of the OSTP memo provisions, and exploring policy considerations around artificial intelligence (AI) and their use in the research that we publish. We will continue to explore ways to produce in-line galleys at scale for our journal publishing. In addition, the Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication and Copyright hopes to expand its open textbook program and support for the Pressbooks platform.