Library Publishing Directory

University of Kentucky Libraries

Academic Library · United States

Digital Scholarship and Data

https://uknowledge.uky.edu/

Kyle Bachman, Institutional Repository Library Specialist
Email: kyle.bachman-johnson@uky.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The University of Kentucky Libraries provides resources, services, and expertise for the university community to publish scholarly contents and to enhance the discoverability of the published works. The library also educates campus constituents about various scholarly communication and digital scholarship topics.
  • Publishing activities began: 2010
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: Most
  • Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 2
  • Individual people: 2
  • Students: Undergraduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers or proceedings
  • Datasets
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Journals
  • Multimedia
  • Open educational resources (textbooks/course modules)


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 7
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 3
  • Campus-based student-created: 4
  • Contracted by external groups: 1
  • Peer-reviewed: 4
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 0
  • Currently inactive or archived: 6
Open Educational Resources Publishing:
  • Open Educational Resources: 2
  • Peer-reviewed Open Educational Resources: 1

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Electronic Dissertations and Theses
  • Kentucky Geological Survey Reports
  • Kentucky Transportation Center Research Report
  • Journal of Appalachian Health (journal)
  • Progress in Scale Modeling, an International Journal (journal)

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • data
  • images
  • text
  • video
  • visualizations
Software & Platforms:
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
  • Pressbooks
Additional Services:
  • analytics
  • cataloging
  • copyediting
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • metadata
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3

Policies

Accessibility policy; Author rights/copyright policy; Authorship/contributorship policy; Name change policy; Open access policy