University of South Florida
Tampa Library
Digital Scholarship Services
2019 CONTACT:Jason Boczar, Digital Scholarship and Publishing Librarian
Phone: 813-974-5505
Email: jboczar@usf.edu
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.
Publishing Activities Began: 2007
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: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 92%
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: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 92%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 3
- Paraprofessional staff: 0.5
- Graduate students: 0.5
- Undergraduates: 2
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: 60%
- Library Operating Budget: %
- Non-library Campus Budget: %
- Endowment Income: 40%
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: %
- Sales Revenue: %
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: %
- Other: %
Publishing Activities
All Library Publishing Activities:- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 15
- Journals Produced for External Groups: 6
- Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 3
- Student Conference Papers and Proceedings: 1
- Databases: 1
- ETDs: 327
- Newsletters: 2
Open Access Publishing:
- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 15
- Journals Produced for External Groups: 6
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
- geology & karst
- literature
- environmental sustainability
- holocaust and genocide studies
- math/quantitative literacy
Top Publications:
- Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices
- Journal of Strategic Security
- International Journal ofSpeleology
- Numeracy
- ETDs
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsExternal Partners: National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI); Aphra Behn Society; Union Internationale de Spéléologie; 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
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- bepress (Digital Commons)
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Amazon S3
- In-house
- LOCKSS
- Portico
Additional Services:
- analytics
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- cataloging
- compiling indexes and/or TOCs
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- hosting of supplemental content
- ISBN registry
- ISSN registry
- metadata
- notification of A&I sources
- open URL support
- outreach
- peer review management
- training
- typesetting