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.
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
- 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
- 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)
- 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 studentsOpeness 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
- audio
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- modeling
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
- DSpace
- OJS
- 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
- DuraCloud
- HathiTrust
- Portico
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