University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas Libraries
Scholarly Communications
Colleen Lyon, Head of Scholarly CommunicationsEmail: 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
- Professional staff: 1.5
- Paraprofessional staff: 1.5
- 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 | |
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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
- 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 programsOpenness 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.
Administer a university press? no
Technologies & Services
- audio
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
- DSpace
- Dataverse
- OJS
- author advisory – copyright
- cataloging
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- metadata
- outreach
- training
- Amazon S3
- DuraCloud
- In-house