Library Publishing Directory

2019

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):
  • 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 students
External Partners: 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:
  • discoverygarden
  • HathiTrust
  • In-house
  • LOCKSS
  • PKP Preservation Network
Additional Services:
  • 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
Service Vendors: article level metrics (traditional and altmetrics)
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