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.

Publishing Activities Began: 2014
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

Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:

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	Hybrid
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

Top Publications:

Panorama (journal)
Innovations in Pharmacy (Journal)
Smart Politics (serial)
Open Rivers (Journal)

Disciplinary Specialties:

researcher to practitioner
law
interdisciplinary

Partners

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

Openess 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

Media Formats:

audio
concept maps or other visualizations
data
images
multimedia/interactive content
text
video

Softwares & Platforms:

DSpace
Digital Commons (bepress)
OJS
Pressbooks
WordPress
Manifold

Additional Services:

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

Digital Preservation Strategy:

PKP Preservation Network
Portico
Rosetta

Service Vendors: local independent contractors; CrossRef; Bowker; Lulu

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
Expanded distribution of CFP; update service's strategic plan

Highlighted Publication

Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art

Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for disseminating original research and scholarship and for sustaining a lively engagement with intellectual developments and methodological debates in art history, visual and material cultural studies, and curatorial work.