University of Kansas

KU Libraries

Digital Publishing Services

2020 CONTACT:
Marianne Reed, Digital Initiatives Manager
Phone: 785-864-8913
Email: mreed@ku.edu

Program Overview

Digital Publishing Services provides support to the KU community for the design, management, and distribution of online publications, including journals, monographs, and other scholarly content. We help scholars explore new and emerging publishing models in our changing scholarly landscape.

Publishing Activities Began: 2007
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):

Professional staff: 0.25
Paraprofessional staff: 0.25

Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:

Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; monographs; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

	2019	Open Access	Paid	Hybrid
Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal	26	22	2	3
Campus-based Student-driven Journals	5	5
Databases
ETDs	794	794
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings	3	3
Journals for External Groups
Monographs	2	2
Newsletters
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings	9	9
Technical/Research Reports	9	9
Textbooks	9	9
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses	12	12

2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.

OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.

Highlights

Top Publications:

Recovering Untold Stories: An Enduring Legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education Decision (monograph)
American Studies (journal)
Latin American Theatre Review (journal)
"Hauks, Chip, Grate, and Squeeze": Recipes of the Honduran Bay Islands (monograph)
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics (journal)

Disciplinary Specialties:

Latin American languages, literatures and cultures
American studies
linguistics
ecology and evolutionary biology
Slavic languages, literatures and cultures

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students

Openess to Partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
Best publications to refer to our program: Journals edited by KU faculty/staff/students and monographs written by KU faculty. We're also very interested in adding more work created by marginalized individuals/groups at KU to the institutional repository.

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:

audio
concept maps or other visualizations
data
images
modeling
multimedia/interactive content
text
video

Softwares & Platforms:

DSpace
OJS

Additional Services:

DOI distribution
analytics
author advisory – copyright
compiling indexes and/or TOCs
dataset management
digitization
DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
hosting of supplemental content
ISBN registry
metadata
outreach
print-on-demand
training
Journal layout

Digital Preservation Strategy:

DuraCloud
HathiTrust
Portico

Service Vendors: Kansas Union Bookstore (print-on-demand); Crossref (DOIs)

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
We have recently expanded to include free layout services for our journals. The Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication is currently working with several KU faculty to write open textbooks.

Other Information:
Resources for Editors of Scholarly Journals (https://guides.lib.ku.edu/journal_editors) contains many resources for journal editors

Highlighted Publication

Recovering Untold Stories: An Enduring Legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education Decision

Recovering Untold Stories: An Enduring Legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education Decision captures the first-person narratives of individuals who were plaintiffs or whose families were represented in the landmark United States Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. The Brown v. Board of Education case resulted in the ruling that maintaining separate public education systems for children based on race is prohibited by the Constitution of the United States of America.