University of Miami
University of Miami Libraries
Digital Strategies
Jason Cohen, Digital Publishing SpecialistPhone: 305-284-9169
Email: j.cohen4@miami.edu
Program Overview
The University of Miami Libraries provides infrastructure and support for publishing and disseminating research and scholarship from our faculty and students.
- Publishing activities began: 2004
- Location: United States
- Languages published: English
- Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
- Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 3 - Established
- Stage comments:
- Open access focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
- Program advisory/editorial board: No
- Peer reviewed journals: 100%
- Professional staff: 1
Funding sources for publishing activities:
- Library materials budget: 50%
- Library operating budget: 50%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; datasets; electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses; student posters, student music projects.| 2021 | Open access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference papers and proceedings, faculty | ||||
| Conference papers and proceedings, student | ||||
| Databases | ||||
| Datasets | 6 | |||
| Educational resources (e.g., textbooks, course modules) | ||||
| Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) | 340 | |||
| Journals, campus-based faculty-created | 2 | 2 | ||
| Journals, campus-based student-created | 1 | 1 | ||
| Journals, contracted by external groups | ||||
| Journals, inactive back issues | ||||
| Monographs | ||||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Technical/research reports | 58 | |||
| Undergraduate capstones/honors theses |
student posters (60), student music projects (7)
2021: New publications from July 2020 to June 2021. 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 offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.
Highlights
Top publications:
- Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal (journal)
- Collaborations: A Journal of Community-Based Research and Practice (journal)
- Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Disciplinary specialties:
- Caribbean studies
- university-community collaborations
Partners
Internal partners: campus departments or programsOpenness 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)
Technologies & Services
Media formats:
- data
- images
- text
- video
Additional services:
- analytics
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- dataset management
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- hosting of supplemental content
- metadata
- training
- typesetting
Digital preservation strategy:
Service vendors: Ubiquity Press - Amazon S3
- AP Trust
- Archive-It
Additional Information
Plans for expansion & future directions:We are currently developing outreach to boost campus use of our institutional repository and working to educate our campus community on issues related to open access.
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