University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Lied Library

Academic Library · United States

• https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/
• digitalscholarship@unlv.edu

Scholarly Communication and Data Services

https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/

Christina Miskey, Research Impact Librarian
Phone: 702-895-2102
Email: christina.miskey@unlv.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The mission of Digital Scholarship@UNLV is to capture, preserve, and share the intellectual output of UNLV faculty, staff, students, and collaborations with other stakeholders.

• Publishing activities began: 2009
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: Most
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across campus
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 3
• Individual people: 5
• Students: Undergraduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Endowment income; Library materials budget; Library operating budget; Non-library campus budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers or proceedings
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Multimedia
• Newsletters
• Posters

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; Individual faculty; Graduate students; Undergraduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
  We collaborate with Special Collections on Archives, as needed, when we are approached about a collection that may be more appropriate for that division of the library (and vice versa).
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  We provide the platform on which departments, colleges, and administrative units can publish journals and conference proceedings.
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Only work with internal partners
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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Policies

Institutional Repository Accessibility Policy

Additional Information

Last Year:
We have increased our support for student-produced research and released a new collection development policy in 2023 that reflects this and accessibility requirements more clearly. We are actively pursuing a project to review and improve the accessibility of our video and audio content this past year. Additionally, we stopped producing the UNLV Bibliography, our faculty citation bibliography, due to a reprioritization and new strategic direction of the institutional repository.

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Future Plans:
We expect to complete at least the preliminary stages of a redesign and relaunch of the institutional repository in the fall of 2024. This will include a renaming of the repository, and significant updates to the structures and organization of it. We will also be launching our new accessibility policy, in line with our goals to prioritize publishing and sharing accessible content.

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Other Information:
The journals we host are entirely run by academic and administrative units and some are supported by bepress publishing services, which provide many of the services listed above. For all the hosted journals, the library provides the platform only and offers advice as needed on setting policy and the system features. The staffing numbers reported in this survey do not take into account the staff that the academic units may be using to support their journal operations (editors, copyeditors, APC management, etc.)