University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota Libraries
Open Scholarship and Publishing Services
Emma Molls, Publishing Services LibrarianPhone: 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%
- Professional staff: 2
- Paraprofessional staff: 2
- 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 | |
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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
- Panorama (journal)
- Innovations in Pharmacy (journal)
- Smart Politics (serial)
- Open Rivers (journal)
- Minnesota Law Review (journal)
- research to practitioner
- law
- interdisciplinary
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)
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
- audio
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
- DSpace
- Digital Commons (bepress)
- Manifold
- OJS
- Pressbooks
- WordPress
- 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
- PKP Preservation Network
- Portico
- Rosetta
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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