2020 Library Publishing Directory

University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas Libraries

Research Support & Digital Initiatives

2020 CONTACT:
Colleen Lyon, Head of Scholarly Communications
Phone: 512-495-4244
Email: c.lyon@austin.utexas.edu

Program Overview

UT Libraries publishing services provide open, online access to the products of the University’s research and scholarship, preserve these works for future generations, promote new models of scholarly communication, and help deepen community understanding of the value of higher education.

Publishing Activities Began: 2008
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across library units/departments
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 1.5
  • Paraprofessional staff: 1.5
  • Graduate students: 0.25
  • Undergraduates: 0.1
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: ETDs; faculty conference papers and proceedings; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses; datasets.

  2019 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal
Campus-based Student-driven Journals
Databases
ETDs2034
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings394
Journals for External Groups
Monographs
Newsletters
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings
Technical/Research Reports18
Textbooks
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses33

2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.

OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.

Other/Additional Publishing Activities:

  • Library Publishing Activities: datasets

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Electronic theses and dissertations
  • Published research data
  • Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (journal)
  • Population Research Center Research & Policy Brief Series (journal)
  • Undergraduate honors theses/capstone projects

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students


Openess to Partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • concept maps or other visualizations
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • Dataverse
  • Fedora
  • Islandora
  • OJS
  • Scalar
Additional Services:
  • analytics
  • applying for Cataloging in Publication Data
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • cataloging
  • data visualization
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3
  • Digital preservation services under discussion
  • DPN
  • DuraCloud
  • In-house
Service Vendors: DataCite; Texas Digital Library

Additional Information

Other Information:
Our repository services (publications repository and data repository) are hosted by the Texas Digital Library.
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