University of Minnesota
Open Scholarship and Publishing Services
2020 CONTACT:Emma Molls, Publishing Services Librarian
Phone: 612-626-25218
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.
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: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 65%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 2
- Paraprofessional staff: 2
- Library Materials Budget: 90%
- Sales Revenue: 10%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; monographs.2019 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
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Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal | 6 | 6 | ||
Campus-based Student-driven Journals | 7 | 7 | ||
Databases | ||||
ETDs | ||||
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
Journals for External Groups | 1 | 1 | ||
Monographs | 3 | 3 | ||
Newsletters | ||||
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
Technical/Research Reports | ||||
Textbooks | 2 | 2 | ||
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses |
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
- Panorama (journal)
- Innovations in Pharmacy (Journal)
- Smart Politics (serial)
- Open Rivers (Journal)
- researcher to practitioner
- law
- interdisciplinary
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsOpeness to Partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
Best publications to refer to our program: External partners must be a nonprofit, scholarly society. UMN Libraries requires, and will provide, an MOU.
Technologies & Services
- audio
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
- DSpace
- Digital Commons (bepress)
- OJS
- Pressbooks
- WordPress
- Manifold
- DOI distribution
- analytics
- author advisory – other
- budget preparation
- business model development
- cataloging
- contract/license preparation
- copyediting
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISBN registry
- ISSN registry
- marketing
- metadata
- open URL support
- peer review management
- print-on-demand
- training
- typesetting
- PKP Preservation Network
- Portico
- Rosetta
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:Expanded distribution of CFP; update service's strategic plan