University of Texas at Arlington
University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
Scholarly Communication Divisionlibrary-sc@listserv.uta.edu
http://library.uta.edu/scholcomm
United States
Primary Contact:
Jody Bailey
Director of Publishing
817-272-7516
Program Overview
We continue to expand publishing options to more formal support for open-access digital publishing of journals, monographs, and open educational resources. We are also digitizing and publishing tens of thousands of archived images from our Libraries’ Special Collections; these efforts have been funded by various grants. We have a well established history of publishing ETDs and archiving UTA faculty work.
Year publishing activities began: 2007
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (2); paraprofessional staff (1)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5): 3
Open access focus (1–5): 5
Advisory/editorial board: N
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2018: Number of publications published by your library-administered university press (0)
Library publications in 2018: campus-based faculty-driven journals (1); campus-based student-driven journals (3); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (0); monographs (1); faculty conference papers and proceedings (0); newsletters (0); ETDs (307); image/metadata datasets (12,806)
Number of open access titles: journals (4); monographs (1)
Number of paid titles: journals (0); monographs (0)
Number of hybrid titles: journals (0); monographs (0)
Media formats: text; images; audio; video (all digital)
Disciplinary specialties: English; Service Learning; Trans-Atlantic history; Spanish; Creative Writing
Top publications: ETDs; International Journal of Research on Service-Learning in Teacher Education (Journal); {stet} (Journal); Cuaderna Vía (Journal)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs): 0
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners: Texas Digital Library hosts our OJS platform; Service-Learning and Experiential Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association; Afro-Latin/American Research Association
Publishing platform(s): DSpace; OJS; OCS; Omeka
Digital preservation strategy: DuraCloud; DPN; Through Texas digital Library hosted service
Additional services: graphic design (print or web); typesetting; cataloging; metadata; ISSN registry; ISBN registry; peer review management; author copyright advisory; digitization; audio/video streaming
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Continue to expand our open-access journal publishing services and provide support to faculty for the creation of new and adaptation of existing open educational resources.View All Entries