University of South Florida
USF Library
Academic Resourcesscholarcommons@usf.edu
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu
United States
Primary Contact:
Jason Boczar
Digital Scholarship and Publishing Librarian
813-974-5505
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 (1.5); paraprofessional staff (2); undergraduates (0.5)
Funding sources (%): library materials budget (40); library operating budget (60)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2016:
Library publications in 2016: campus-based faculty driven journals (1); faculty conference papers and proceedings (26); newsletters (1); ETDs (213)
Number of open access titles:
Number of paid titles:
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Media formats: text; images; audio; video; data; concept maps, modeling, maps, or other visualizations; multimedia/interactive content
Disciplinary specialties: geology and karst; literature; environmental sustainability; Holocaust and genocide; math/quantitative literature
Top publications: Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices; Journal of Strategic Security; International Journal of Speleology; Numeracy: Advancing Education in Quantitative Literacy; ETDs
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 80
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty
External partners: Florida Holocaust Museum, National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI); Aphra Behn Society; Union Internationale de SpŽlŽologie; Center for Conflict Management (CCM) of the National University of Rwanda (NUR); HenleyPutnam University; National Numeracy Network (NNN); IAVCEI Commission on Statistics in Volcanology (COSIV); Babesí¤-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; bepress Digital Commons Private LOCKSS Network
Additional services: graphic design (print or web); typesetting; training; analytics; cataloging; metadata; compiling indexes and/or TOCs; notification of A&I sources; ISSN registry; ISBN registry; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; open URL support; dataset management; peer review managementcontract/license preparation; author copyright advisory; hosting of supplemental content
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Ingesting the USF FAIR CV Bank, and expanding data content areas.View All Entries