University of Pittsburgh
University Library System
Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing
2019 CONTACT:Lauren Collister, Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing
Phone: 4126483155
Email: oscp@mail.pitt.edu
Program Overview
The University Library System, University of Pittsburgh is committed to helping research communities share knowledge and ideas through open and responsible collaboration. We subsidize the costs of electronic publishing so that our partners can focus on editorial content and scholarly collaboration.
Publishing Activities Began: 1999
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: Yes
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: Yes
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 4.5
- Paraprofessional staff:
- Graduate students:
- Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: %
- Library Operating Budget: 75%
- Non-library Campus Budget: %
- Endowment Income: %
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: %
- Sales Revenue: %
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: 25%
- Other: %
Publishing Activities
All Library Publishing Activities:- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 9
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 5
- Journals Produced for External Groups: 16
- Monographs: 3
- Technical/Research Reports: 18
- Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 74
- ETDs: 670
- Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses: 70
Open Access Publishing:
- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 13
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 8
- Monographs: 2
Paid Publishing:
- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 1
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
- Latin American studies
- history and philosophy of science
- law
- health sciences
- European studies
Top Publications:
- Revista Iberoamericana (journal)
- Journal of the Medical Library Association(journal)
- Archive of European Integration (document repository)
- PhilSci-Archive (preprint repository)
- Journal of World-Systems Research (journal)
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsBest publications to refer to our program: American Hungarian Educators Association; American Sociological Association: Political Economy of the World-System Section; Association for Anthropology and Gerontology, and the Life Course; Brunel University, Department of Anthropology; Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED); and more
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- modeling
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- EPrints
- Fedora
- Islandora
- OJS
- OMP
- WordPress
- locally developed software
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- HathiTrust
- In-house
- LOCKSS
- PKP Preservation Network
Additional Services:
Service Vendors: article level metrics (traditional and altmetrics) - DOI distribution
- analytics
- applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- business model development
- cataloging
- compiling indexes and/or TOCs
- contract/license preparation
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISBN registry
- ISSN registry
- marketing
- metadata
- notification of A&I sources
- outreach
- print-on-demand
- training
- typesetting