University of Rhode Island
University Libraries
Digital Initiatives
2020 CONTACT:Julia Lovett, Associate Professor, Digital Initiatives Librarian
Phone: 401-874-5079
Email: jalovett@uri.edu
Program Overview
To provide an open access publishing platform and services for scholarly journals, electronic theses and dissertations, and other works created by University of Rhode Island faculty, staff and students. A secondary goal is to provide information and education to the University community around scholarly publishing in general, addressing issues such as copyright, fair use, and open access.
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 1
- Paraprofessional staff: 1
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.| 2019 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Campus-based Student-driven Journals | ||||
| Databases | ||||
| ETDs | 337 | 2450 | 0 | 0 |
| Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
| Journals for External Groups | ||||
| Monographs | 0 | |||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Student Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
| Technical/Research Reports | ||||
| Textbooks | ||||
| Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses | 80 | 704 | 0 |
2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. 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 may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsOpeness to Partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
Technologies & Services
- audio
- data
- images
- text
- video
- Digital Commons (bepress)
- DOI distribution
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISSN registry
- metadata
- outreach
- peer review management
- training
- for preexisting journals, migrating back issues and metadata to Digital Commons
- Digital preservation services under discussion
- bepress ensures a basic level of digital preservation