2020 Library Publishing Directory

University of Louisville

Ekstrom Library/Archives & Special Collections

Digital Initiatives/Scholarly Communication

2020 CONTACT:
Sarah Frankel, Open Access & Repository Coordinator
Phone: 502-852-8788
Email: s.frankel@louisville.edu

Program Overview

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 dissertations, theses, faculty publications, and soon freestanding open access journals produced at or hosted by the University of Louisville.

Publishing Activities Began: 2015
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: Yes
Peer Reviewed Journals: 75%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 1
  • Paraprofessional staff: 1
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Materials Budget: 50%
  • Non-library Campus Budget: 50%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; monographs; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

  2019 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal44
Campus-based Student-driven Journals
Databases
ETDs2443240
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings
Journals for External Groups
Monographs11
Newsletters
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings
Technical/Research Reports5
Textbooks
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses4193

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:
  • The Hidden Help : Black Domestic Workers in the Civil Rights Movement. (ETD)
  • Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Toward Nutrition and Diet During Pregnancy Among Recently Delivered Women of Syrian Refugees (journal article)
  • The eQuality Toolkit: Practical Skills for LGBTQ and DSD-Affected Patient Care (Monograph)
  • Predicting 30-Day Mortality in Hospitalized Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia Using Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches (journal article)
  • Student government leadership in the 21st century : its importance and why it must be supported. (undergraduate honors thesis)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • refugee and global health
  • infectious diseases—respiratory infections
  • student financial aid
  • physician burnout and wellness
  • LGBTQ and DSD-affected patient care

Partners

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


Openess to Partners: Only work with internal partners

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • images
  • text
Softwares & Platforms:
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
Additional Services:
  • analytics
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • contract/license preparation
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • open URL support
  • outreach
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • LOCKSS
  • MetaArchive

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
We plan to hire a student worker to help keep up with the demands of adding new content to the repository. We have also changed our collection policy to allow for some non-peer reviewed scholarship (namely journals) produced by our university.
Other Information:
https://ir.library.louisville.edu/collection_policy.html
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