University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota Libraries
Publishing Services
2019 CONTACT:Emma Molls, Publishing Services Librarian
Phone: 612-626-5218
Email: emolls@umn.edu
Program Overview
UMN Libraries Publishing serves as a critical, central resource for publishing expertise on campus and our essential services should be offered without charge. We support scholars by contributing quality, scholarly works to the public commons through open access publishing.
Publishing Activities Began: 2014
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 50%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 50%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 2.5
- Paraprofessional staff: 1
- Graduate students:
- Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: 100%
- Library Operating Budget: %
- Non-library Campus Budget: %
- Endowment Income: %
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: %
- Sales Revenue: %
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: %
- Other: %
Publishing Activities
All Library Publishing Activities:- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 4
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 6
- Journals Produced for External Groups: 1
- Monographs: 5
- Textbooks: 30
- Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 1
Open Access Publishing:
- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 4
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 6
- Journals Produced for External Groups: 1
- Monographs: 5
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
Top Publications:
- Innovations in Pharmacy (Journal)
- Open Rivers (Journal)
- Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies (Journal)
- Journal of Regional Medical Campuses (Journal)
- Smart Politics (Dynamic Scholarly Serial)
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsTechnologies & Services
Media Formats:
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
Softwares & Platforms:
- OJS
- Pressbooks
- bepress (Digital Commons)
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- PKP Preservation Network
- Rosetta
Additional Services:
- DOI distribution
- analytics
- applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
- author advisory – copyright
- budget preparation
- business model development
- cataloging
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISBN registry
- ISSN registry
- marketing
- metadata
- outreach
- peer review management
- print-on-demand
- training
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:Additional monographs slated for publication in 2018-2019; Journal development for external groups slated for publication in 2018-2019.
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