University of Louisville

University of Louisville Libraries

Academic Library · United States

• https://ir.library.louisville.edu/
• thinkIR@louisville.edu

Archives and Special Collections

https://ir.library.louisville.edu/

Sarah Frankel, Open Access and Repository Coordinator
Phone: 502-852-8788
Email: s.frankel@louisville.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
ThinkIR is an open-access digital repository that provides worldwide access to the scholarship of the University of Louisville community. Through ThinkIR, faculty and graduates can highlight their scholarship, accomplishments, and successes as researchers for a global audience, increasing their visibility and making new connections. As a core commitment of University Libraries, ThinkIR also preserves that scholarship for future researchers. ThinkIR currently includes student research, faculty publications, and freestanding open access journals produced at or hosted by the University of Louisville.

• Publishing activities began: 2015
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across library units/departments
• Advisory/editorial board: Yes
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 2.5
• Individual people: 4
• Funding sources: Library operating budget; Non-library campus budget

Publishing Activities

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

Highlights

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: No
  
• 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)
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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Policies

Open Access Statement: https://library.louisville.edu/open-access/statement