University of South Florida
Tampa Library
Academic Resourcesscholarcommons@usf.edu
scholarcommons.usf.edu
http://www.facebook.com/pages/USF-Scholar-Commons/260978313955466
United States
Primary Contact:
Rebel Cummings-Sauls
Library Operations Coordinator
813-974-7381
Program Overview
The USF Tampa Library strives to develop and encourage research collaboration and initiatives throughout all areas of campus. Members of the USF community are encouraged to deposit their research with Scholar Commons. We commit to assisting faculty, staff, and students in all stages of the deposit process, to managing their work to optimize access/ readership, and to ensure long-term preservation. Long-term preservation and increasing accessibility will increase citation rates and highlight the research accomplishments of this campus. Scholar Commons will have a direct impact on the University’s four strategic goals: student success, research innovation, sound financial management, and creating new partnerships.
Year publishing activities began: 2007
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (3); paraprofessional staff (.25); graduate students (1); undergraduates (.5)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (60); endowment income (40)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2015:
Library publications in 2015: campus-based faculty-driven journals (14); monographs (3); textbooks (11); technical/research reports (100); faculty conference papers and proceedings (400); student conference papers and proceedings (285); newsletters (12) databases (5); ETDs (5408); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (91);
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Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data; concept maps, modeling, maps, or other visualizations; any
Disciplinary specialties: Geology and Karst; Literature; Environmental Sustainability; Holocaust and Genocide; Math/quantitative Literature
Top publications: Open Access Textbooks, specifically Social Science Research: Principle, Methods, and Practices.; Electronic Theses and Dissertations; Studia UBB, Geologia (journal); International Journal of Speleology (journal); Numeracy (journal)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 92
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners: National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI); Aphra Behn Society; Union Internationale de SpeÌleÌologie; Center for Conflict Management (CCM) of the National University of Rwanda (NUR); Henley- Putnam University; National Numeracy Network (NNN); IAVCEI Commission on Statistics in Volcanology (COSIV); Babeş-Bolyai University; National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS)
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons)
Digital preservation strategy: LOCKSS; Portico; in-house; digital preservation services under discussion; bepress
Additional services: graphic design (print or web); print-on-demand; typesetting; marketing; outreach; training; analytics; cataloging; metadata; compiling indexes and/or TOCs; notification of A&I sources; ISSN registry; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; open URL support; dataset management; peer review management; author copyright advisory; digitization; hosting of supplemental content; audio/video streaming
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Adding a Coordinator role, ingesting the USF FAIR CV Bank, and expanding data content areas.View All Entries