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2021 Library Publishing Directory

University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota Libraries

Open Scholarship and Publishing Services

  • http://www.lib.umn.edu/publishing
  • libpubs@umn.edu
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
  • Languages published: English
  • Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
  • Stage Comments:
  • Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
  • Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
  • Peer Reviewed Journals: 56%
  • Journals that assess article processing charges: 6%
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: educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; monographs.

  2020 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases
Datasets
Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules) 1 1
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
Journals, campus-based faculty-created 7 7
Journals, campus-based student-created 9 9
Journals, contracted by external groups 1 1
Journals, inactive back-issues
Monographs 6 6
Newsletters
Technical/Research Reports
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses

2020: New publications from July 2019 to June 2020. 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:
  • Panorama (journal)
  • Innovations in Pharmacy (journal)
  • Smart Politics (serial)
  • Open Rivers (journal)
  • Minnesota Law Review (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • research to practitioner
  • law
  • interdisciplinary

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs

Openness 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)

Best publications to refer to our program: External partners must be a nonprofit, scholarly society. UMN Libraries requires, and will provide, an MOU.

Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing? no

Work with a university press? no

Administer a university press? no

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • concept maps or other visualizations
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • Digital Commons (bepress)
  • Manifold
  • OJS
  • Pressbooks
  • WordPress

Additional Services:
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • 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:
Focus on directions that have a large impact towards transforming scholarly communication and the publishing landscape.
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