2021 Library Publishing Directory

University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas Libraries

Scholarly Communications

Colleen Lyon, Head of Scholarly Communications
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
  • Stage Comments:
  • 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
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; datasets; electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses; Student capstone projects; undergraduate papers.

  2020 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases
Datasets
Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules)
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) 1574 1574
Journals, campus-based faculty-created
Journals, campus-based student-created
Journals, contracted by external groups
Journals, inactive back-issues
Monographs
Newsletters
Technical/Research Reports 5 5
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses 63 63

2020: New publications from July 2019 to June 2020. 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 offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.

Highlights

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

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs

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 that provides support for publishing? yes
  • Name of consortium: Texas Digital Library
  • Type of support: They host our institutional repository, our ETD submission system, and our instances of OJS.
Work with a university press? no

Administer a university press? no

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • concept maps or other visualizations
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • Dataverse
  • OJS
Additional Services:
  • author advisory – copyright
  • cataloging
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3
  • DuraCloud
  • In-house
Service Vendors: DataCite
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