University of South Florida

University of South Florida Libraries

Academic Library · United States

• digitalcommons@usf.edu

Jason Boczar, Digital Scholarship and Publishing Librarian
Phone: 813-974-5505
Email: jboczar@usf.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The USF Libraries strive 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 Digital Commons @ University of South Florida. 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 ensuring long-term preservation.

• Publishing activities began: 2007
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: Most

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across several campuses
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 3
• Individual people: 3
• Students: Undergraduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Endowment income; Library materials budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Datasets
• Educational resources
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Monographs
• Multimedia
• Newsletters
• Posters

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; Individual faculty; Graduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g., local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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